The company gets notice, and it gets to respond in writing, and it can ask to be heard, and while that is happening it cannot receive new awards anywhere in the federal government.

Dupont Enterprise Group was suspended on the fourth of September of the following year, nearly a year after the wedding.

The show-cause letter is nine pages.

It attaches the capability statement, the two proposals, and eleven pages of Raymond Carver’s interview.

Christian Dupont’s response, filed by a Washington firm the family had by then retained, is forty-two pages and it is, I am told by people who read a lot of these, a genuinely good submission.

It argues, correctly, that no information ever moved.