Congress directed that a report prepared for Stevens Institute of Technology’s Acquisition Innovation Research Center (AIRC) by principal investigators David Drabkin and Christopher Yukins be extended to provide training on potential exclusion and debarment of contractors that have violated U.S. labor laws. The training was done through a two-session webinar series coordinated by the Defense Acquisition University (DAU).
As DAU noted in launching the training, the Department of Labor has thousands of records on violations by federal contractors. The purpose of the training was to explain how to access and assess those records when evaluating contractors, including when assessing their present responsibility.
Session 1: Introduction and Key Findings (September 12, 2023).
Panelists: AIRC Fellows David Drabkin & Christopher Yukins
Session 2: Discussion with Experts (December 12, 2023)
Expert roundtable on accessing and considering labor law violations, including senior officials from the Labor Department, debarment experts and senior contracting personnel.
Panelists:
- Jeffrey Koses
- Kiersten S. Mathews
- Mathew Blum
- Fred Levy
- Christopher Yukins
- David Drabkin
- Jon O’Connell
Materials:
- Event Recording and Slides
- Final Report (DAU posting)
- U.S. Government Accountability Office, Defense Contractors: Information on Violations of Safety, Health, and Fair Labor Standards, GAO-20-587R (20 July 2020)
