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DAY ONE
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DAY TWO
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| 7:30 a.m. - 8:00 a.m. |
Registration - Breakfast Pastries |
Breakfast Pastries |
| 8:00 a.m. - 9:20 a.m. |
The Procurement Process
Discuss the phases of the procurement process while you review contracting and payment systems. Also, learn the differences between government and private purchasing procedures.
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Collusion Between Contractors and Employees, Continued
Unfortunately, there are many more ways that organizations are defrauded by collusion. This session will focus on the following schemes: unbalanced bidding, leaking of bid data, bid splitting, unjustified sole source awards and imprest fund and petty cash abuse. |
| 9:20 a.m. - 9:35 a.m. |
Break |
Break |
| 9:35 a.m. - 10:55 a.m. |
Legal Elements of Procurement Fraud
If you discover a procurement scheme, how do you know if it is illegal? Has the perpetrator committed a crime? Discuss the legal statutes that are most commonly used to prosecute procurement schemes. You will also learn what civil laws may allow for litigation directly against the perpetrator and how qui tam actions may be pursued. |
False Claims and Statements
There are many ways that contractors can be defraud by submitting false claims. Learn the various ways both government agencies and private companies lose money from false claims for payment. Also discover how shell companies are often used to bill for phony products or services, and how easily it can be prevented. |
| 10:55 a.m. - 11:10 a.m. |
Break |
Break |
| 11:10 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. |
Bribes and Kickbacks
Unfortunately, the payment of bribes and kickbacks occurs more often than you might think. But although they are common, they are often hard to detect and prove. Discover the most common types of corruption schemes and provide insight into how to catch them. |
Performance Schemes
Once the contractor begins performing the work, a whole host of new fraud schemes open up. This session will cover schemes involving, defective pricing and non-conforming goods and services. |
| 12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. |
Group Lunch |
Lunch on Your Own |
| 1:30 p.m. - 2:50 p.m. |
Collusion Among Bidders
Bid-rigging occurs in many different forms. This session will focus on those schemes in which prospective bidders team up against the contracting entity to submit false bids and inflate prices. |
Performance Schemes, Continued
Continue to explore why fraud examiners must remain vigilant after the contract is signed. You will discuss the remaining performance schemes, including change order abuse, cost mischarging and co-mingling of contracts. |
| 2:50 p.m. - 3:05 p.m. |
Break |
Break |
| 3:05 p.m. - 4:25 p.m. |
Collusion Between Contractors and Employees
Many schemes involve collusion between the contractor and one or more employees of the contracting entity. Explore recognition and bid tailoring schemes. These schemes can be very costly if they are not stopped early. |
Preventing Procurement Fraud
Although you have learned tips on detecting particular types of procurement fraud, what should government and private organizations do as part of an overall procurement fraud prevention and detection strategy? Learn how to implement fraud policies, ethics policies, hotlines and other programs to help stop these schemes from occurring. |