SAP, Carahsoft Probe Widens to Other Agencies
- New legal filings provide additional details of DOJ inquiry
- Carahsoft says prosecutors made ‘unsupported’ allegations
US prosecutors are broadening a probe of potential price-fixing by German software maker SAP SE and tech reseller Carahsoft Technology Corp., seeking to examine the companies’ work with almost 100 government agencies, according to new court records that show the scope of the investigation is far greater than previously known.
The Justice Department sent Carahsoft a legal demand for documents and information on 94 civilian government agencies with which it has done business for SAP products, according to a document filed in Baltimore federal court Tuesday. In it, the company characterized the prosecutors’ demand as “dramatically expanding” a civil probe that was already examining whether the companies overcharged the military and some other parts of government on purchases of more than $2 billion worth of SAP technology since 2014.