Contracts 101
This is a legally binding agreement between two or more parties.
What is a contract?
Several laws and regulations govern District procurement. Name at least three.
What are the Home Rule Act, the Procurement Practices Reform Act of 2010 (PPRA), 27 DCMR, and agency-specific policies?
D.C. Code ยง 22-3221 defines this as a scheme to defraud or obtain property of another by false pretenses, representations, or promises.
What is fraud?
Since 2021, I&E has issued how many procurement-related reports?
What is 6?
This team won the 2021 NWSL Championship?
What is the Washington Spirit?
This type of financial award supports public purposes and is NOT used to buy goods or services for the District.
What is a grant?
This type of contract can be used when urgent circumstances require bypassing the normal competitive process to protect health, safety, or property.
What is an emergency contract?
Contract fraud can occur in which stages of a procurement's lifecycle? Be specific.
What are pre-award, performance, and billing?
What is the Office of Neighborhood Safety and Engagement (ONSE)?
This Supreme Court Justice made history in December 2024 by becoming the first member of the Court to perform on Broadway, appearing in the musical &Juliet.
Who is Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson?
These are the two parties to a contract.
What are the buyer and seller?
This type of District contract is awarded when only one vendor can provide the required goods or services and must be supported by a formal, written justification.
What is a sole source contract?
This fraud indicator category includes issues such as deliverables not matching requirements, unauthorized subcontractor substitutions, and excessive change orders.
What is performance-related fraud?
A former DC government employee stole and resold these items, initially purchased as part of a $1.6M DHCF procurement.
What are laptops (specifically MacBook Pro laptops)?
According to our website, how many IGs, including TIG, have led DC OIG?
What is 11?
This includes the scope of the contract, price, and performance terms.
This is a type of agency that is required to abide by the requirements of the PPRA but is not under the authority of the District's Chief Procurement Officer.
What is an independent procurement authority (IPA) agency?
This type of contract fraud involves manipulating the competitive process to favor a specific offeror.
What is bid rigging?
In the Contracted Services evaluation, we evaluated the use of contracted vendors to administer large-scale programs at four agencies. Name them.
What are DHS, DDOT, DCPS, and FEMS?
From January 1979 to March 1985, she served as the District's first Inspector General.
Who is Joyce Blalock?
Name the four essential elements of a contract.
What are the offer, acceptance, consideration, and mutual intent to be bound?
All contracts (and related documentation) worth more than $100k must be posted here.
What is the OCP Contracts and Procurement Transparency Portal?
This government contractor was required to repay the government almost $400M to settle claims that it defrauded the government.
What is Booz Allen Hamilton?
These are the current or planned I&E procurement-related engagements. Name at least three.
What are the DSLBD CBE Evaluation, DOEE Tetra Tech Contract Inspection, PPRA MIR, PPRA Part III (OCP/Dependent Agencies), and DOES Youth Workforce Development Contracts?
This is the OIG's mission.
What is to independently audit, inspect, and investigate matters pertaining to the District of Columbia government in order to: prevent and detect corruption, mismanagement, waste, fraud, and abuse; promote economy, efficiency, effectiveness, and accountability; inform stakeholders about issues relating to District programs and operations; and recommend and track the implementation of corrective action?