> Date: December 27, 2014 at 10:44:27 AM EST
> From: PeterK <[log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>>
> Subject: Iron Mountain settles with GSA over data storage suit
> 
> 
> According to the Justice Department, the settlement resolves allegations
> the company failed to meet contractual obligations to provide GSA with
> accurate information about its commercial sales practices during contract
> negotiations, and did not comply with the price-reduction clause of the GSA
> contracts because it did not extend lower prices to government customers.
> It also resolves an allegation that Iron Mountain charged agencies for
> storage conditions that met National Archives and Records Administration
> requirements when the storage provided did not in fact meet those
> requirements.


I wonder what the effects of this will be on future contracts?  A win of $8 million out of the $45 million is quite the windfall!

" The civil settlement, the Justice Department announced, resolves a whistleblower lawsuit under the False Claims Act, which permits private parties to file suit on behalf of the United States for false claims and obtain a portion of the government's recovery.

The lawsuit was filed in the Eastern District of California by Brent Stanley, a former Iron Mountain employee, and Patrick McKillop, who worked in the records management industry. Collectively, the department said the men will collectively receive just over $8 million as part of the settlement. “

Will people use FOIA requests to review contracts for various agencies to post similar gains?  

Also, if the records centers did not meet the NARA requirements for Records Centers, are those records now being moved to NARA or a different storage company that does meet the requirement?


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