NCJ Number
77954
Date Published
1980
Length
0 pages
Annotation
This videotape program on the prevention of fraud and abuse for Federal procurement personnel uses dramatized incidents to point up such ethical problems as conflict-of-interest and reporting of wrongdoing.
Abstract
The film notes that there are 150,000 Federal procurement personnel spending over 100 billion dollars yearly and buying items as diverse as a linear accelerator for a Veterans Administration hospital and a tracking and data relay satellite system for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Federal procurement personnel are shown in varied situations that underscore the importance of preventing fraud and abuse by (1) being impartial, (2) reporting wrongdoing, and (3) avoiding conflict-of-interest situations, waste, and gifts and gratuities. Viewers are given the opportunity to make their own decisions about specific procurement issues such as one involving three separate requests by a section chief for office carpeting, a contract add-on, and six word-processing machines. The narrator emphasizes the serious responsibility of the work, the need to apply ethical principles with care and discrimination, and the fact that procurement personnel are working for the benefit of the people.