definiens: means that a Party or any of its officers or directors or any other NewLinkpersonnel ( or other permitted agents of a Party performing activities hereunder ) has been:(1 ) convicted of any of the felonies identified among the exclusion authorities listed on theU.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector General ( OIG)website, including 42 U.S.C. 1320a-7(a ) ( http://oig.hhs.gov/exclusions/authorities.asp ) ; ( 2)identified in the OIG List of Excluded Individuals / Entities ( LEIE ) database(http://exclusions.oig.hhs.gov/ ) or listed as having an active exclusion in the System forAward Management ( http://www.sam.gov ) ; or ( 3 ) listed by any US Federal agency asbeing suspended, proposed for debarment, debarred, excluded or otherwise ineligible toparticipate in Federal procurement or non - procurement programs, including under 21U.S.C. 335a ( http://www.fda.gov/ora/compliance_ref/debar/ ) ( each of ( 1 ), ( 2 ) and ( 3)collectively the )