A settlement has been reached to resolve False Claims Act Allegations against En Pointe Gov Inc, En Pointe Technologies Inc, En Pointe Technologies Sales Inc, Dominguez East Holdings LLC and Din Global Corporation.
The allegations arose by a lawsuit claiming En Pointe Gov Inc, En Pointe Technologies Inc, En Pointe Technologies Sales Inc, Dominguez East Holdings LLC and Din Global Corporation falsely certified that En Pointe Gov Inc was a small business in order to get contracts set aside for small businesses and underreporting sales under a General Services Administration (GSA) contract to avoid the payment of fees.
According to the government, between 2011 and 2014, the defendants were liable for false representations that En Pointe Gov Inc met Small Business Administration (SBA) requirements to get work that was only available to small businesses. Specifically, the government claimed that En Pointe Gov Inc’s association with the other defendants rendered it a non-small business and, thus, ineligible for the small business set-aside contracts it obtained. Also, according to the government, the defendants caused En Pointe Gov Inc to file false quarterly reports with the GSA between 2008 and 2015 underreporting sales made under a GSA schedule contract that allowed other federal agencies to purchase from En Pointe. En Pointe was supposed to return to GSA a percentage of its sales receipts and by allegedly misrepresenting the amount of its sales, En Pointe underpaid the fees that it owed to GSA.
The whistleblower's share of the settlement will be approximately $1.4 million.
