ACFE Faculty
Tom Caulfield, CFE, CIG, CIGI
Chief Operating Officer,
Procurement Integrity Consulting Services

Tom Caulfield is the Chief Operating Officer of Procurement Integrity
Consulting Services, LLC, a woman-owned small business that assists domestic
and international clients in driving a business environment committed to
honest, fair, impartial, and legal procurements (i.e., procurement integrity).
Caulfield has more than forty years of combined experience in the private
sector, federal government, and military, where he has identified fraudsters,
produced effective contracting integrity controls, built anti-corruption and
anti-fraud mitigation programs, performed fraud risk assessments, conducted
investigations, and built procurement fraud prevention and detection
initiatives. He has extensive experience developing and delivering customized
training on today’s most prevalent corruption, fraud, and abuse schemes in the
contracting field, and he has provided training on proactive protections
against those threats. Additionally, Caulfield advises both public and private
entities on developing data analytics, artificial intelligence, and machine
learning approaches related to corruption and fraud prevention and detection.
Caulfield is the co-designer of the PICS Procurement Integrity Control
System®, a proprietary internal control model designed to mitigate the inherent
risk to procurement fraud and abuse, thus safeguarding organizational
reputation, reducing financial losses, minimizing opportunities for contract termination
or litigation, and achieving competitive advantage.
Prior to Procurement Integrity Consulting Services, Caulfield served in the
United States Marine Corps from 1977 to 1998. He also worked as a civil servant
in the United States Air Force, the Central Intelligence Agency, and the
Council of the Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency (CIGIE). He was a member of the Department of Justice
National Procurement Fraud Task Force and the architect to what became an
amendment to the Federal Acquisition Regulation requiring mandatory disclosure
by federal government contractors of certain violations of federal criminal law
and the civil False Claims Act.