§ 101-40.409-2 - Causes for debarment.


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  • The debarring official may debar a carrier for any of the following reasons:

    (a) Failure of a carrier, within the prescribed period of temporary nonuse, to correct any of the causes listed in § 101-40.408-2;

    (b) Conviction of or civil judgment for:

    (1) Commission of fraud or a criminal offense in connection with obtaining, attempting to obtain, or performing a contract for transportation;

    (2) Violation of Federal or State antitrust statutes;

    (3) Commission of embezzlement, theft, forgery, bribery, falsification or destruction of records, making false statements, or receiving stolen property; or

    (4) Commission of any other offense indicating a lack of business integrity or business honesty which seriously and directly affects the present responsibility of the carrier as a transporter of the Government's property or the household goods of its employees relocated in the interest of the Government.

    (c) Violation of the terms of a contract for transportation so serious as to justify debarment, such as:

    (1) Willful failure to perform in accordance with the terms of one or more contracts for transportation, or

    (2) A history of failure to perform, or of unsatisfactory performance of, one or more contracts for transportation;

    (d) Any other cause of so serious or compelling a nature that it affects the present responsibility of the carrier; or

    (e) Debarment for any of the causes stated in paragraphs (a) through (d) of this section by another agency where the orignal debarment did not have Governmentwide effect.