As President Donald Trump vows a crackdown on federal “waste, fraud and abuse,” his nascent administration has already awarded tens of millions to a company that the Department of Justice is investigating for potentially ripping off several government bureaus.
More than two years ago, the DOJ opened a price-fixing probe into software company Carahsoft, demanding that the IT vendor turn over thousands of documents related to billions worth of contracts that Carahsoft had signed with numerous federal agencies.
Specifically, the Justice Department sought to determine whether Carahsoft “conspired” to make “false claims to the Department of Defense by coordinating the bids, prices, and/or market for SAP software, cloud storage, and related hardware and services.”