To Provide for the Elimination of Kick-backs: Hearings Before the Committee on Expenditures in the Executive Departments House of Representatives, Seventy-ninth Congress, First Session, on H.R. 131 a Bill to Provide for the Elimination of Kick-backs Or the Granting of Gifts Or Gratuities on Cost-plus-fixed-fee Or Cost-reimbursable Contracts. February 13 and 14, 1945 |
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Accounting Office amendment amount Army audit auditor award of subcontracts Budget Bureau CARTER MANASCO certainly certificate CHAIRMAN CHURCH civil recovery COCHRAN Colonel ROWLEY commercial bribery Committee on Expenditures compensation Comptroller Congress cost-plus contracts cost-plus-a cost-plus-a-fixed-fee basis cost-plus-a-fixed-fee contracts cost-plus-a-fixed-fee prime contracts crime dollars employees of cost-plus-a-fixed-fee enactment ERVIN Executive Departments FEBRUARY 13 fees or kick-backs fixed price fixed-fee fixed-price fraud furnish GIBSON gifts or gratuities GOSSETT granting gifts gratuities to employees HODGSON investigation irregularities exist JUDD language legislation Maritime Commission ment Navy Department normal trade practices order previously awarded paid paying fees payment penalty plant practice by subcontractors prime contractor procurement agencies prohibited proposed provisions question recovery renegotiation RICH securing the award statement subcon subcontract or order substitute suggested SULLIVAN surplus property bill thing tractor Truman committee United War Department War Powers Act WARREN WHITTINGTON
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Page 2 - Any purchase order or agreement to perform all or any part of the work, or to make or furnish any article, required for the performance of any other contract or subcontract...
Page 1 - That the payment of any fee, commission, or compensation of any kind or the granting of any gift or gratuity of any kind, either directly or indirectly, by or on behalf of a subcontractor, as...
Page 2 - ... paid by the subcontractor, shall not be charged, either directly or indirectly, as a part of the contract price charged by the subcontractor to the prime contractor or higher tier subcontractor. It also creates a conclusive presumption that the cost of any such prohibited payment has been included in the price of the subcontract or order and ultimately borne by the Government. The Act provides for the recovery on behalf of the United States of any such payment from either the subcontractor or...
Page 9 - subcontract" means — (1) any purchase order or agreement (including purchase orders or agreements antedating the related prime contract or higher tier subcontract) to perform all or any part of the work, or to make or furnish any...
Page 14 - It shall not be lawful for any person appointed after the first day of June, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-two, as an officer, clerk, or employee in any of the Departments, to act as counsel, attorney or agent for prosecuting any claim against the United States, which was pending in either of said Departments while he was such officer, clerk, or employee, nor...
Page 49 - ... shall have the right to inspect the plans and to audit the books and records of any prime contractor or subcontractor engaged in the performance of a cost or cost-plus-a-fixed-fee contract.
Page 3 - ... (B) For the purposes of this section the Board shall have the same powers with respect to any such contractor or subcontractor that any agency designated by the President to exercise the powers conferred by Title XIII of the Second War Powers Act, 1942, has with respect to any contractor to whom such title is applicable.
Page 2 - ... (1) to any officer, partner, employee, or agent of a prime contractor holding a negotiated contract entered into by any department, agency, or establishment of the United States for the furnishing of supplies, materials, equipment or services of any kind whatsoever . . . as an inducement for the award of a subcontract or order from the prime contractor ... is hereby prohibited.
Page 15 - ... employment or service, or for a- period of two years after the time when such employment or service has ceased, act as counsel, attorney, or agent, or be employed as representative, in connection with any matter involving the disposition of surplus property by the agency in which such person was employed, if such person during his employment with such agency ratified, approved, or authorized the disposition of any surplus property pursuant to the provisions of this Act or recommended any such...
Page 15 - Sec. 27. No person employed by any Government agency, including commissioned officers assigned to duty in such agency, shall, during the period such person is engaged in such employment or service, or for a period of two years after the time when such employment or service has ceased, act as counsel, attorney, or agent, or be employed as representative, in connection with any matter involving the disposition of surplus property by the agency in which such person was employed, if such person during...