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You decide to inform Mr. Johnson that you will accept his marvelous offer. Within two months, you have an opportunity to direct a sole source award to Mr. Johnson's company. You inform the requiring activity that you know of a small business, capable of meeting the requirement. You advise them that the company they are currently considering, another small business, is not qualified and does not have the experience that Water Conservation has, and you strongly recommend Mr. Johnson's company. The requiring activity agrees, and the Department makes the award to Mr. Johnson's company. After performance begins, you and Mr. Johnson meet for lunch at a quiet restaurant away from the air base, where he gives you your first installment of fifty thousand dollars toward your total payment of two hundred thousand dollars. Over the next few months, you receive the remainder of the "referral fee."

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