Paying of Fees for the Purpose of Securing the Award of Subcontracts Or Orders: Hearing, Seventy-ninth Congress, First Session, on H.R. 2284, an Act to Eliminate the Practice by Subcontractors, Under Cost-plus-a-fixed-fee Etc. March 30, 1945 |
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Accounting Office ACT TO ELIMINATE agencies agent amendment Army Service Forces atten audit examination authority AWARD OF SUBCONTRACTS bill as drawn Colonel HUNT Colonel ROWLEY COMMITTEE ON EXPENDITURES Comptroller Contract Settlement Act cost reimbursable contract cost-plus-a-fixed-fee or cost counsel course Department of Justice duty to report eliminate the practice Embassy Industrial Engineer EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS feel fees or kick-backs Fischer Ford Motor Co fraud gentlemen gifts or gratuities glad Go right ahead Government granting gifts gratuities to employees handled higher tier subcontractor House committee LISTER HILL Maritime Commission matter Navy Department paid commissions paying fees payment practice by subcontractors prime contractor prosecuting claims provision PURPOSE OF SECURING recipient referred revenue act RUSSELL HUNT Satterfield SECURING THE AWARD Senator HICKENLOOPER interposing Senator Hill Senator MCMAHON set-off subcon subcontract or order Surplus Property Act suspicion thing THOMAS tion tractor Truman committee uncovering UNITED STATES ARMY violations WARREN YATES
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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 8 - It shall not be lawful for any person appointed alter 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...
Page 2 - ... 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 1 - ... pay its share of the compensation paid to students employed under the Work-Study Program. (b) No institution shall solicit or permit any public or private nonprofit organization with which it has an arrangement pursuant to § 175.4 (c) to solicit from a student or any other person any fee, commission, or compensation of any kind, or the granting of a gift or gratuity of any kind, as a consideration or a prerequisite for the employment of any particular student under the program.
Page 1 - ... contractor, of any higher tier subcontractor, as an Inducement or acknowledgment for the award of a subcontract or order. The Act further provides that the amount of any such fee, commission, or compensation, or the cost or expense of any such gratuity or gift, whether heretofore, or hereafter 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.
Page 1 - ... to the prime contractor or any higher tier subcontractor or to any officer, partner, employee, or agent of the prime contractor, of any higher tier subcontractor, as an inducement or acknowledgment for the award of a subcontract or order. The Act further provides that...
Page 2 - ... hereafter 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...
Page 2 - Any person who shall knowingly, directly or indirectly, make or receive any such prohioited payment shall be fined not more than $10,000 or be imprisoned for not more than two years, or both.
Page 1 - States for the furnishing of supplies, materials, equipment or services of any kind whatsoever, on a cost-plus-a-fixed-fee or other cost reimbursable basis; or to any such prime contractor or (2) to any officer, partner, employee, or agent of a higher tier subcontractor holding a subcontract under the prime contract, or to any such subcontractor either as an inducement for the award of a subcontract or order from the prime contractor or any subcontractor, or as an acknowledgment of a subcontract...
Page 2 - Upon a showing that s subcontractor paid fees, commissions, or compensation or granted gifts or gratuities to an officer, partner, employee, or agent of a prime contractor or of another higher tier subcontractor. in connection with the award of a subcontract or order thereunder, it shall be conclusively presumed that the cost of such expense was included in the price of the subcontract or order and ultimately borne by the United States. Upon the direction of the contracting department or agency or...