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of XX ©2015 PubKLearning. All rights reserved. 1 Professor Christopher R. Yukins George Washington University Law School Washington, DC Comparing Causes for Debarment/Exclusion United States Conviction of a crime or civil fraud Poor contract performance Other serious misconduct showing the contractor is not responsible World Bank Misconduct, as narrowly defined by Anti- Corruption, Guidelines, and Consultant and Procurement Guidelines: fraud, corruption, collusion, coercion and obstruction Mandatory: Corruption, fraud, money laundering Non-Mandatory: Bankruptcy Convicted re: professional conduct Grave professional misconduct Social security / taxes European Union

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Comparing Causes for Debarment/Exclusion

• United States

• Conviction of a crime or civil fraud

• Poor contract performance

• Other serious misconduct showing the contractor is not responsible

• World Bank

• Misconduct, as narrowly defined by Anti-Corruption, Guidelines, and Consultant and Procurement Guidelines: fraud, corruption, collusion, coercion and obstruction

Mandatory: Corruption, fraud, money laundering

Non-Mandatory: Bankruptcy Convicted re: professional

conduct Grave professional misconduct Social security / taxes

• European Union

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Responsibility (Qualification)Only• On a case-by-case basis• In U.S. – done by

contracting officer• Allowed by new EU

Directives

Adjudicative Debarment for “Bad Acts”• E.g., World Bank

Court-Ordered Debarment, After Judicial Proceedings

Discretionary Debarment – U.S. Federal• Based on “present

responsibility”: focus on present status

• Debarment is a cross-government “meta-qualification” determination

Performance Risk

Reputation Risk

Four Paradigms

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Cross-Debarment

Automatic cross-debarment? If not, how should authorities cooperate?

UNCITRALShould UNCITRAL draft

a model debarment provision?

FraudShould debarment be broadly extended to performance failures?Emerging Issues