# Interagency Suspension and Debarment Committee An interagency body created under Executive Order 12549 to coordinate the federal government's exclusion of contractors and grant recipients. It has no power to suspend or debar anyone itself. What it does is settle which agency acts: where more than one agency has an interest in the same company, the agencies coordinate through the committee to identify the official best situated to decide, and on occasion two act jointly. It also serves as a forum for the officials who hold that power and contributes to common policy across the procurement and non-procurement sides. It is, by its own description, unfunded. Its most visible product is its annual report to Congress, required by Section 873 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2009, which collects the suspension and debarment activity of the agencies subject to the Chief Financial Officers Act. That report is the only government-wide tally of this activity — referrals, show-cause letters, suspensions, proposed debarments, debarments, declinations, voluntary exclusions and administrative agreements. Its figures for fiscal year 2023, transmitted at the end of December 2024, were the most recent in the committee's published archive as of November 2026. What the report counts is activity. It does not count how often an exclusion is later set aside, which is why no reversal rate appears in [[How a Federal Contractor Is Suspended and Debarred]]. ## See also - [[How a Federal Contractor Is Suspended and Debarred]] - [[System for Award Management]] - [[Oversight and Accountability Hub]]