Corrupt Benefits to a Public Official

1. Are you aware of contracts being awarded to a corporation or a business that directly or indirectly benefits a public official?

2. Are you aware of any individuals or businesses giving a campaign contribution to a public official while that individual or company was specifically seeking a government contract, or immediately after receiving a government contract?

3. Are you aware of any public official who owns a stake in a company that was awarded a contract while that official maintained the ability to control or influence the contract award?

4. Are you aware of any contracts that were awarded to a company owned by a public official, or awarded to a company employing a family member or close associate of a public official?

5. Are you aware of any individuals or businesses offering a lucrative private-sector job to a public official who interacted with that company in an official capacity?

Coercion, Bribery, and Extortion

1. Are you aware of any public-sector or private-sector individuals, businesses, or corporations being coerced, bribed, or extorted by public officials for a thing of value in return for receiving or retaining government contracts?

2. Are you aware of any public official demanding that a company hire a specific company as a subcontractor?

3. Are you aware of any claims of a “pay-to-play” environment, whereby money or something of value must be paid to obtain a contract?

4. Are you aware of any long-standing public contracts that have not been evaluated under standard contracting procedures for the periodic re-solicitation of competitive bids?

Abuse of Contracting Authority

1. Are you aware of any no-bid contracts or emergency bid contracts for goods and services being routinely awarded to the same bidders when other potential bidders exist?

2. Are you aware of the awarding of any sole-source contracts even though the requests for proposals (RFPs) did not specify proprietary information or products, and did not include other terms and conditions justifying the solicitation of only one supplier?

3. Are you aware of collusion among companies taking turns submitting the lowest bid during the competitive bidding process?

4. Are you aware of any claims that contracting officials intentionally limit the contract specifications so that only particular companies can meet the contract requirements?

5. Are you aware of any contracting officials who justify the use of sole-source contracts or other alternative bidding procedures when competitive sources and specifications are available?

Are you aware of any individuals or businesses providing a bribe, kickback, payoff, or things of value to public officials or their relatives, in exchange for awarding economic stimulus funds?

1. Are you aware of any individuals or businesses that provided or are providing travel or entertainment to public officials or their relatives to improperly influence distribution of economic stimulus funds?

2. Are you aware of any individuals or businesses that provided or are providing personal services priced below market value, or free of charge, to public officials or their relatives to influence official action regarding economic stimulus funding

3. Are you aware of any individuals or businesses that offered or are offering lucrative private-sector job offers to public officials or their relatives, to influence official action regarding economic stimulus funding?

Are you aware of any third party entity (e.g., consulting firms, lobbyist, etc.) providing a bribe, kickback, or some other thing(s) of value to a public official or their relatives to influence the distribution of economic stimulus funding?

Are you aware of any individuals or businesses receiving economic stimulus funding that are owned by public officials or their relatives?

Are you aware of any individuals or businesses receiving economic stimulus funding that employ public officials or their relatives?

Are you aware of any individuals or businesses that  were coerced or extorted by a public official, if any, for money or a thing of value (i.e. “pay-to-play” environment) in return for receiving or retaining economic stimulus funding?

Are you aware of any situations in which a public official demanded an entity to hire a specific company as a subcontractor to obtain economic stimulus funding?

Are you aware of any individuals or businesses misusing stimulus funding?

Are you aware of any individuals or businesses attempting to, or that have obtained, stimulus funding for non-existent work or employees?

Are you aware of any individuals or businesses intentionally misrepresenting themselves or inflating their expenses (e.g. regarding materials, services, etc.) to increase the amount of economic stimulus funding it has, or will, receive?

Are you aware of any individuals or businesses fraudulently representing themselves as disadvantaged enterprises to qualify for preferential contracting opportunities and/or economic stimulus funding?

Are you aware of any individuals or businesses receiving economic stimulus funding that would otherwise be restricted from obtaining economic stimulus funds (e.g., government services agencies excluded parties list system)?

Are you aware of any individuals or businesses colluding among entities to obtain economic stimulus funding (e.g., bid rigging)?

Are you aware of any individuals or groups fraudulently receiving disaster assistance that they are ineligible to receive (e.g., living outside of the impact area at the time of the disaster, property did not exist, property was not owned by the claimant, applying multiple times using fictitious information or committing identity theft, incarcerated at the time of the disaster, etc.)?

Are you aware of any scheme that enables any individuals (including public officials) or businesses to take advantage of program intricacies to defraud the government?

Are you aware of any entities committing disaster fraud by inflating invoices, billing for overtime not earned, or otherwise receiving federal disaster funding fraudulently? 

Are you aware of any schemes that take advantage of emergency rule changes to defraud the government (e.g., emergency procurement rules that raise or limit competition requirement limits, etc.)? 

Are you aware of any individuals or groups receiving government program benefits by providing false information?

Are you aware of any entities that do business with the government using their positions and/or contracts with the government to commit fraud against the government (e.g., receiving a personal benefit when obtaining government contracting business, using their position or funds from their position as a government contractor to make a personal profit, etc.)?

Are you aware of any scheme that enables individuals or businesses doing business with the government to defraud the government?

Are you aware of any scheme that takes advantage of limited competition rules to defraud the government (e.g., small business, disadvantaged business, HUBZone contracting, GO Zone contracting, etc.)?