19.800—What are the causes for debarment?
We may debar a person for—
(1)
Commission of fraud or a criminal offense
in connection with obtaining, attempting to
obtain, or performing a public or private
agreement or transaction;
(2)
Violation of Federal or State antitrust
statutes, including those proscribing price fixing
between competitors, allocation of customers
between competitors, and bid rigging;
(3)
Commission of embezzlement, theft, forgery,
bribery, falsification or destruction of records,
making false statements, tax evasion, receiving
stolen property, making false claims, or
obstruction of justice; or
(4)
Commission of any other offense indicating
a lack of business integrity or business honesty
that seriously and directly affects your present
responsibility;
(b)
Violation of the terms of a public
agreement or transaction so serious as to affect
the integrity of an agency program, such as—
(1)
A willful failure to perform in accordance
with the terms of one or more public agreements or
transactions;
(2)
A history of failure to perform or of
unsatisfactory performance of one or more public
agreements or transactions; or
(3)
A willful violation of a statutory or
regulatory provision or requirement applicable to
a public agreement or transaction;
(1)
A nonprocurement debarment by any Federal
agency taken before October 1, 1988, or a
procurement debarment by any Federal agency taken
pursuant to 48 CFR part 9, subpart , before
August 25, 1995;
(3)
Failure to pay a single substantial debt,
or a number of outstanding debts (including
disallowed costs and overpayments, but not
including sums owed the Federal Government under
the Internal Revenue Code) owed to any Federal
agency or instrumentality, provided the debt is
uncontested by the debtor or, if contested,
provided that the debtor's legal and
administrative remedies have been exhausted;
(4)
Violation of a material provision of a
voluntary exclusion agreement entered into under §
19.640 or of any settlement of a debarment or
suspension action; or
(d)
Any other cause of so serious or compelling
a nature that it affects your present
responsibility.