Dell, Virginia Tech Company to Pay $4.3 Million in Bid Scheme

Dell Technologies and Dell Federal Systems agreed to pay $2.3 million to resolve allegations that they violated the False Claims Act by submitting and causing the submission of non-competitive bids to the Army and thereby overcharging the Army under the Army Desktop and Mobile Computing 3 contract, the Justice Department announced Tuesday.

According to the DOJ, from 2020 to 2024, Dell operated a deal registration program, whereby it gave advantageous pricing to Iron Bow Technologies to sell certain Dell computer hardware products to the Army in response to solicitations under the AMDC-3 contract. Dell also submitted its own direct ...