Professional whistleblower Brady Folliard’s most recent False Claims Act suit against technology vendors alleging violations of the Trade Agreements Act (“TAA”) has survived a motion to dismiss with respect to two defendants (GovPlace and Government Acquisitions, Inc.), but otherwise has been dismissed for the other six defendants (which include Hewlett Packard and GTSI Corporation).
In this case, Mr. Folliard alleged that the defendants violated the False Claims Act by listing Hewlett Packard and Cisco products on their respective GSA Schedule and NASA Solution for Enterprise-Wide Procurement (“SEWP”) contracts that were manufactured in TAA non-compliant countries, that the defendants were aware that the products were not compliant and consciously misrepresented that fact to the Government, and that they submitted claims for money from the Government based on that misrepresentation.
The district court dismissed the complaint against six of the defendants based on the False Claims...
