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The General Service Administrations (GSA) and the Lists of Parties
Excluded from Federal Procurement and Nonprocurement Programs are separate
from any other listing. GSA is required by the Federal Acquisition Regulation
(FAR)
to compile and
maintain a list of parties debarred, suspended, proposed
for debarment, or declared ineligible by agencies or by the
General Accounting Office.
EPLS is the electronic version of the Lists of Parties Excluded from
Federal Procurement and Nonprocurement Programs (Lists), which identifies
those parties excluded throughout the U.S. Government (unless otherwise
noted) from receiving Federal contracts or certain subcontracts and from
certain types of Federal financial and nonfinancial assistance and benefits.
There are three (3) Exclusion Types: reciprocal, procurement and nonprocurement:
The Reciprocal Lists, is a listing of procurement and nonprocurement
exclusions taken after August 25, 1995. The Federal Register on June
26, 1995, published the final rule to ensure that exclusions from Government
procurement and nonprocurement programs were applied reciprocally. The
effective date of this change was August 25, 1995. In other words, any
procurement or nonprocurement action initiated on or after August 25,
1995, means exclusion from both programs. This list includes individuals,
entities, and contractors that are excluded Governmentwide (unless otherwise
noted) from Federal procurement sales programs, nonprocurement programs,
and financial and nonfinancial benefits.
The Procurement List, is a listing of procurement exclusions only. All
exclusions in this section were added before August 25, 1995. Currently,
only updates and deletions are being performed on this section and it
will eventually diminish and no longer appear. This list includes contractors
that are excluded governmentwide, unless otherwise noted, from Federal
procurement and/or sales programs.
The Nonprocurement List, is a listing of nonprocurement exclusions
only. All exclusions in this section were added before August 25, 1995.
Currently, only updates and deletions are being performed on this section
and it will eventually diminish and no longer appear. This list includes
persons (individuals and entities) excluded govermentwide, unless otherwise
noted, from certain types of Federal financial and nonfinancial assistance
and benefits.
The three exclusion types are separate and distinct. ISTmedWatch downloads
and processes all three lists. However, when searches are
performed they can be done against the entire database, against
reciprocal only or against procurement and nonprocurement
only.
ISTmedWatch ships with the latest version of the GSA EPLS
list and offers batch and interactive search capabilities. The data
is automatically updated without manual intervention ensuring that
customers are always current. ISTmedWatch is designed to automate
the EPLS screening
process and to keep record of the processed records for audit and
compliance
purposes. In addition to GSA EPLS, ISTmedWatch can search against
OIG LEIE, CMS opt out, OFAC SDN and other custom user supplied lists.
The main advantages
of ISTmedWatch are:
- Easy to use, automated processing
- Automatic data format processing and updates with
no manual intervention
- Extensive reporting, auditing and transaction logging
- Advanced, fuzzy searching and matching engine ensuring
even inexact matches are found
- Built-in exclusion (false positives) processing
* All or part of the information above is retrieved from www.epls.gov |
