The Federal Acquisition Regulations' Forthcoming "Integrity Reporting" Disclosure Requirement Should Have Federal Contractors on Their Guard, But Not Running for the Hills.
Massachusetts Bar Institute Section Review
12/2008
Benjamin B. Tymann and Peter D. McCarthy
Companies that do business with the federal government operate in an ever-intensifying regulatory and enforcement environment. The temperature is about to be turned up again with the onset of a new Federal Acquisition Regulation ("FAR") that will add an "integrity reporting" requirement. Federal contractors and subcontractors will be expressly mandated to timely disclose to their government contracting officers any known violation of federal law relating to their contracts.
In this article, published in December 2008 in the Massachusetts Bar Institute Section Review Vol. 10 No. 3, Mintz Levin attorneys Benjamin B. Tymann and Peter D. McCarthy discuss the elements of this new rule, including the serious ramifications that could result from a failure to comply.
