PITTSBURGH — A former regional director who helped oversee the Pittsburgh VA during a Legionnaires’ outbreak has been asked to stop working under a contract with the Department of Veterans Affairs.

Department spokesman James Hutton said in a statement that Michael Moreland, who has been representing Shipcom Wireless in a management contract with the VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System, visited a VA campus in Pittsburgh on May 1.

But Moreland isn’t allowed to represent non-federal parties before the VA until at least two years after his November 2013 retirement from the hospital system, Hutton said.

Moreland visited the Pittsburgh campus as part of Shipcom’s four-year deal to improve supply deliveries at the VA’s 152 hospitals, according to a newspaper. The contract awarded could make $275 million for Shipcom.

Rep. Tim Murphy said Moreland’s past actions should have disqualified him from working for the VA system. During the Legionnaires’ outbreak between February 2011 and November 2012, while Moreland was regional director, at least six veterans died and 16 became sick.

“I’m having a hard time congratulating the VA for making the albeit appropriate decision to ensure Michael Moreland stops working at the Oakland campus when, in reality, taxpayers shouldn’t be paying him to do any work at any VA facility,” Murphy said.