. WASHINGTON BUSINESS JOURNAL -- Feds to launch Do Not Pay List by end of year

Monday, September 26, 2011, 12:50pm EDT

Jill R. Aitoro

Senior Staff Reporter - Washington Business Journal

The Treasury Department is a few months away from launching the Do Not Pay list, which agencies will use to confirm that companies are eligible to receive federal dollars before awarding them a contract.

Jeff Zients, the chief performance officer at the Office of Management and Budget, provided the update on the tool's launch in his blog Friday, which touted progress by the Obama administration in reducing the amount of improper payments made by federal agencies.

"The Treasury Department is well on its way to setting up the Do Not Pay List that the vice president announced last summer," he wrote. "This central portal will provide agencies information they need to prevent payments to ineligible businesses and individuals. This tool is in production right now and will be available government-wide in a few months."

First announced in June, the Do Not Pay List is supposed reduce improper payments to dead people, debarred contractors, individuals found guilty of tax fraud, and criminals. It doesn't provide agencies with new data undefined but rather consolidates information that is now strewn across multiple databases and, as a result, not regularly checked.

That said, agencies will still have multiple databases to juggle. Beyond the Do Not Pay list, the General Services Administration activated on April 15 the public version of the Federal Awardee Performance and Integrity Information System, which procurement officials use to access contractor performance assessments; civil, criminal and administrative proceedings; and suspension and disbarment information, among other documents.

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