premise: In keeping with the fast pay requirements, we also suggested that the system designs include procedures to identify first time vendors and vendors with a history of abusing fast pay.These vendors would not be eligible to participate in fast pay until the agency had satisfied itself that those vendors were worthy businesses that could be paid under fast pay.
hypothesis: Under the suggested procedures, both first time vendors and vendors who have abused the fast pay system in the past would be identified and considered ineligible for fast pay until the agency had the opportunity to investigate and vet the vendors in question more thoroughly.