The Department of Justice has announced it intervened in a lawsuit against Symantec Corporation alleging that the IT contractor gave GSA inaccurate and incomplete information on the prices it gave its commercial customers during the negotiation and performance under a multiple awards schedule contract from 2007 – 2012, involving hundreds of millions of dollars in sales.
The whistleblower suit against Symantec whichDoJ has joined, alleges that the company negotiated higher minimum discounts for agencies for software than was required, and that the company failed to pass on far better discounts than those it was willing to give to commercial customers to federal agencies.
The suit was filed under the whistleblower provisions of the False Claims Act, and Justice emphasized no determination of liability has been made in the case (United States ex rel. Morsell v. Symantec Corp.).
