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Second Quarter of 2021 Government Contract Insights
Subjects discussed in this Second Quarter of 2021 issue include:
- A New DCAA Low for Taking Advantage of Small Businesses
- DCAA Misapplication of Credits Related to PPP Loans in Rate Development
- DFARS Business System Reviews
- What Purchasing Policies Do Smaller Contractors Need?
- Cost/Price Analysis – Timely Performance
- Recent GAO and Court Decisions
- Training Opportunities
- Blog Articles and Whitepapers
First Quarter of 2021 Government Contract Insights
Subjects discussed in this First Quarter of 2021 issue include:
- Crushing the Little Guy – Unnecessary Small Business Government Contracting Obstacles
- Some Good News for Small Business
- Other DCAA Activities
- Training Opportunities
- Blog Articles and Whitepapers
Fourth Quarter of 2020 Government Contract Insights
Subjects discussed in this Fourth Quarter of 2020 issue include:
- DCAA MRD on COVID-19 Costs and Legislation (e.g., CARES Act including the PPP/Paycheck Protection Program)
- Provisional Billing Rates and DCAA Request for a Contractor Proposal
- Business Systems’ Audits and Regulatory Changes
- Procurement and Compliance News – Published Decisions
- Compensation
- Training Opportunities
- Blog Articles and Whitepapers
Third Quarter of 2020 Government Contract Insights
Subjects discussed in this Third Quarter of 2020 issue include:
- DCAA MRD Established New Compensation Caps (FAR 31.205-6(p)(4))
- DCAA Renews its Contractor Floorchecks
- DCAA Incurred Cost Audit Challenges: Consultant Costs (FAR 31.205-33)
- Procurement and Compliance News-Miscellaneous
- Published Decisions (CDA or Contract Disputes Act)
- Meshing a GAO with a Behavioral Study on the Effect of Family Photos in the Workplace
- The Difference Between DCAA and DCMA is More than a Single Letter
- Training Opportunities
- Blog Articles and Whitepapers
Second Quarter of 2020 Government Contract Insights
Subjects discussed in this Second Quarter of 2020 issue include:
- DCAA’s Fiscal Year 2019 Annual Report to Congress
- DCAA’s Undaunting Focus on “Physical Observation” as an Audit Requirement…No Exceptions Allowed
- Lessons Learned from Recent DCAA Audits
- DCAA Barking About TINA Does Not Always Mean DCAA Can Bite into Profit
- Procurement and Compliance News-Miscellaneous
- Training Opportunities
- Blog Articles and Whitepapers
First Quarter of 2020 Government Contract Insights
Subjects discussed in this First Quarter of 2020 issue include:
- Coronavirus and Government Contractors
- Incurred Cost Submissions and Incurred Cost Audits
- DCAA’s Post-Award Audits for TINA Compliance
- Training Opportunities
- Blog Articles and Whitepapers
Fourth Quarter of 2019 Government Contract Insights
Subjects discussed in this Fourth Quarter of 2019 issue include:
- Contractors and Adequate Accounting Systems: The Saga Continues
- Government Solicitations and Contractor Accounting Systems
- Miscellaneous Compliance Topics and Government Agencies “In the News”
- Training Opportunities
- Blog Articles and Whitepapers
Third Quarter of 2019 Government Contract Insights
Subjects discussed in this Third Quarter of 2019 issue include:
- DCAA: Relaunching Post-Award (Defective Pricing) Audits?
- DCAA’s Other Renewed Audit Focus: Contractor Accounting (Business Systems)
- Has DCAA Disallowed a Cost? Don’t Give in Too Quickly
- The Peril of Proposing Key Personnel
- Contract Disputes Decision with Universal Messages for Government Contractors
- Training Opportunities
- Blog Articles and Whitepapers
Second Quarter of 2019 Government Contract Insights
Subjects discussed in this Second Quarter of 2019 issue include:
- DCAA 2018 Annual Report to Congress: Nominated for Best Creative Reporting by a Federal Government Agency
- DCAA Audit Policy Addresses Expressly Unallowable Costs
- DOJ Seemingly Ignores “Mandatory Disclosures” (FAR 52.203-13) in Revising DOJ Guidelines for “Contractor Voluntary Disclosures and Cooperation” in False Claims Act Matter
- Training Opportunities
- Blog Articles and Whitepapers
First Quarter of 2019 Government Contract Insights
Subjects discussed in this First Quarter of 2019 issue include:
- Government Accountability Office (GAO) Record Year in “Financial Benefits” for the Tax Payer
- DCAA Audit Policies on Subcontractor Assist Audit and on Audits Involving Incomplete or Inadequate Contractor Proposals
- Prime Contractor Settlement with Subcontractor Does Not Equate to Government Acceptance
- Training Opportunities
- Blog Articles and Whitepapers
Fourth Quarter of 2018 Government Contract Insights
Subjects discussed in this Fourth Quarter of 2018 issue include:
- Government Shutdown and Government Contractors
- DOD (Possible) Lateral Reassignment of Shay Assad from Director Defense Pricing to a DCMA (Boston Area Office)
- DoD-IG (Inspector General) Semi-Annual Reports for 2018: DCAA’s Audit Productivity Skyrockets while DCAA’s Audit Sustention Rates Hold at 30 Percent
- DCAA’s Annual Program Plan: No Longer “Annual” and No Longer with any Specific Details of Planned Audits
- DOJ FY 2018 Fraud Statistics: The Government Giveth but the Government Taketh Away More
- Training Opportunities
- Blog Articles and Whitepapers
- CFO Roundtable
Third Quarter of 2018 Government Contract Insights
Subjects discussed in this Third Quarter of 2018 issue include:
- 2018 Year-End Checklist
- IGs (Inspector Generals) Continuing Impact on Government Contract Compliance
- Untimely Government Contract Oversight and the Six-Year Statute of Limitations
- Accounting Systems Adequacy: Pre-award, Post-award, or Does it Really Matter?
- Training Opportunities
- The Redstone Edge Conference
- Blog Articles and Whitepapers
- CFO Roundtable
Second Quarter of 2018 Government Contract Insights
Subjects discussed in this Second Quarter of 2018 issue include:
- DCAA’s 2017 Annual Report to Congress: It Just Keeps Getting Better…Per DCAA
- Defective Pricing: Making a Comeback in Terms of Increased Contractor Risk?
- Chicken or Egg? A Business Systems Dilemma
- Training Opportunities
- Blog Articles and Whitepapers
- CFO Roundtable
First Quarter of 2018 Government Contract Insights
Subjects discussed in this First Quarter of 2018 issue include:
- DCAA’s Latest Request to Contractors: “Do you want to request a multi-year incurred cost audit?”
- DoD Waiver on TINA (Truth in Negotiations Act) Threshold and the Interrelated Impact on CAS (Cost Accounting Standards) Applicability—Increased to $2 Million
- Cybersecurity and Government Contracts—A New World of Contractor Risks
- Bid Protests in the News
- Training Opportunities
- Blog Articles and Whitepapers
- CFO Roundtable
January 2018 Government Contract Insights
Subjects discussed in this January issue include:
- Contractor Alert: Do Not Complete All Fields in DCAA’s Executive Compensation Benchmarking Template (Excel file)
- Miscellaneous Compliance Topics
- Corporate Tax Reductions and “Benevolent” Employers
- SEC Action Related to PCAOB Employees and a Major Accounting Firm
- Government Inaction on a Contractor REA (Request for Equitable Adjustment)
- Training Opportunities
- Blog Articles and Whitepapers
- CFO Roundtable
December 2017 Government Contract Insights
Subjects discussed in this December issue include:
- Government Wins (Again) on Compensation Based on Changes in Stock Prices
- 2018 Tax Cut and Jobs Act
- Key Personnel – A Peril of Becoming Ineligible for Award
- Training Opportunities
- Blog Articles and Whitepapers
- CFO Roundtable
November 2017 Government Contract Insights
Subjects discussed in this November issue include:
- Prime Contractors Continue to Embrace DCAA’s Mythological Theory of Subcontract Management
- DoD-IG gives DCAA’s System for Audits a “Pass with Deficiencies”
- Training Opportunities
- Blog Articles and Whitepapers
- CFO Roundtable
October 2017 Government Contract Insights
Subjects discussed in this October issue include:
- DCAA and Senator McCaskill – the “Friendship” Continues
- DCAA’s Latest Adequacy Checklist-CAS Cost Impacts
- Miscellaneous Contract Compliance in the News
- Haves and Have-Nots: How Does a Small Business Get an Approved System?
- Training Opportunities
- Blog Articles and Whitepapers
- CFO Roundtable
September 2017 Government Contract Insights
Subjects discussed in this September issue include:
- DCAA’s FY2018 Staffing and Planning Guide (aka Program Plan)
- Contractor Compensation Costs: Regulatory Changes and Audit Challenges
- Converting Unallowable Legal Costs to Allowable Legal Costs
- Training Opportunities
- Blog Articles and Whitepapers
- CFO Roundtable
August 2017 Government Contract Insights
Subjects discussed in this August issue include:
- DCAA’s Post-Award Accounting System Audits—Small Businesses held to Non-Applicable DFARS Clause
- Fair and Reasonable Prices (Prime or Subcontractor) Interpretations
- Training Opportunities
- Blog Articles and Whitepapers
- CFO Roundtable
- 2017 Redstone Edge Conference
July 2017 Government Contract Insights
Subjects discussed in this July issue include:
- Defined Contribution (401K) Pensions: The Hidden Risk
- Contractor Allowed to Recover Deferred Compensation Attributed to Delays in Government Payments
- Miscellaneous Contract Issues
- Training Opportunities
- Blog Articles and Whitepapers
- CFO Roundtable
June 2017 Government Contract Insights
Subjects discussed in this June issue include:
- Timekeeping: Government Employees vs. Contractor Employees
- DCAA and Untimely Provisional Billing Rate Reviews
- Miscellaneous Contract Issues
- Training Opportunities
- Blog Articles and Whitepapers
- CFO Roundtable
May 2017 Government Contract Insights
Subjects discussed in this May issue include:
- Congressional Bill Targets DCAA Audit Performance
- DCAA Audit Policies
- What do All Government Contracts Have in Common? The Risk of Contract Termination…Even Those for Commercial Services.
- Training Opportunities
- Blog Articles and Whitepapers
- CFO Roundtable
April 2017 Government Contract Insights
Subjects discussed in this April issue include:
- DCAA 2016 Annual Report to Congress Nothing but Good News other than DCAA Needs More Staff
- FAR Changes
- ASBCA Reinforces that Costs are Expressly Unallowable for Incentive Compensation Based upon Changes in Corporate Stock Price Benchmarking
- Training Opportunities
- Blog Articles and Whitepapers
- CFO Roundtable
March 2017 Government Contract Insights
Subjects discussed in this March issue include:
- Are Final Indirect Cost Rates Really Final?
- Beware of 350 Pound Malaysian Bearing Gifts
- Training Opportunities
- Blog Articles and Whitepapers
- CFO Roundtable
February 2017 Government Contract Insights
Subjects discussed in this February issue include:
- DCMA Disposition of DCAA Incurred Cost Audit Reports – Not Quite up to Expectations per DoD-IG
- DCAA Audit Alert on Final Voucher Services
- Retroactive Disallowance and Miscellaneous Cost Allowability Issues in ASBCA No. 59577
- Training Opportunities
- Blog Articles and Whitepapers
- CFO Roundtable
January 2017 Government Contract Insights
Subjects discussed in this January issue include:
- Incentive Compensation: Allowable or Unallowable?
- Lessons from an Untimely Internal Investigation
- Miscellaneous Compliance Issues
- Training Opportunities
- Blog Articles and Whitepapers
- CFO Roundtable
December 2016 Government Contract Insights
Subjects discussed in this December issue include:
- Department of Justice: 2016 FCA Recoveries
- Lessons from an ASBCA Decision involving CAS and FAR
- DOD-IG Semiannual Report to Congress
- Training Opportunities
- Blog Articles and Whitepapers
- CFO Roundtable
November 2016 Government Contract Insights
Subjects discussed in this November issue include:
- Government Property At-Odds with Direct Contract Costing
- IR&D (Independent Research and Development) Back-to-the Future for DOD Contractors
- DCAA Audits In the News
- Training Opportunities
- Blog Articles and Whitepapers
- CFO Roundtable
October 2016 Government Contract Insights
Subjects discussed in this October issue include:
- DCAA’s Fiscal Year (FY) 2017 Planning Document
- Labor Laws, Regulations and Risks
- Training Opportunities
- Blog Articles and Whitepapers
- CFO Roundtable
September 2016 Government Contract Insights
Subjects discussed in this September issue include:
- DCAA’s New “Selected Areas of Cost Guidebook” Cost Principles
- Good News on the Regulatory Burden for FAR 52.215-2
- Changes in Cost Accounting Practices Cost Impacts and Materiality
- Changes (Impending) Related to Compensation
- Training Opportunities
- Blog Articles and Whitepapers
- CFO Roundtable
August 2016 Government Contract Insights
Subjects discussed in this August issue include:
- Internal Confidentiality Agreements
- Contractor Settlement on 401K Management Allowable or Unallowable Costs
- Contractor Entitlement to Costs After Contract Performance
- Announcing The Redstone Edge Conference
- Training Opportunities
- Blog Articles and Whitepapers
- CFO Roundtable
July 2016 Government Contract Insights
Subjects discussed in this July issue include:
- DCAA ICP Adequacy Checklist 2016 Update
- NASA Solicitation for Contract Audits
- Lobbying Disclosure Act and FAR 31.205-22
- Announcing The Redstone Edge Conference
- Training Opportunities
- Blog Articles and Whitepapers
- CFO Roundtable
June 2016 Government Contract Insights
Subjects discussed in this June issue include:
- 2017 NDAA (Senate Version)
- Six Year Statute of Limitations for Claims (FAR 33.206)
- DCAA Updates Low Risk Sampling Audit Policy
- Training Opportunities
- CFO Roundtable
May 2016 Government Contract Insights
Subjects discussed in this May issue include:
- G&A is an Expense and not a Fee
- 2017 NDAA (National Defense Authorization Act)
- ASBCA Decisions Impacting Contractor Cost Recoveries
- Training Opportunities
- CFO Roundtable
April 2016 Government Contract Insights
Subjects discussed in this April issue include:
- DCAA’s 2015 Annual Report to Congress
- Untimely Government Actions and CAS (Cost Accounting Standards)
- Is the Contracting Officer Taking Too Long to Process Requests for Equitable Adjustments?
- Training Opportunities
- CFO Roundtable
March 2016 Government Contract Insights
Subjects discussed in this March issue include:
- DCAA’s Ever-expanding Demands for Access to Contractor Records
- Miscellaneous Decisions and Regulations
- Training Opportunities
- CFO Roundtable
February 2016 Government Contract Insights
Subjects discussed in this February issue include:
- DCAA Activities and Policies
- SCA (Service Contract Act) Risks
- IR&D: Losing its Independence for Defense Contractors
- Training Opportunities
- CFO Roundtable
January 2016 Government Contract Insights
Subjects discussed in this January issue include:
- DOD-IG Semi-Annual Report Highlights DCAA Record Questioned Costs
- DCAA Auditors Challenging Contractor Labor Qualifications on T&M Contracts
- Training Opportunities
- CFO Roundtable
December 2015 Government Contract Insights
Subjects discussed in this December issue include:
- TINA (Truth in Negotiations Act) in the News
- Six Year Statute of Limitations (FAR 33.206) and Untimely DCAA Audits
- Training Opportunities
- Blog Articles and Whitepapers
November 2015 Government Contract Insights
Subjects discussed in this November issue include:
- DCAA and DCMA: Not Exactly Working Together
- Bid Protest Highlights the Confusion with UCOT (Uncompensated Overtime)
- Announcing CFO Roundtable
October 2015 Government Contract Insights
Subjects discussed in this October issue include:
- DOD Announces Intentions to Block Mergers
- ASBCA Decision on Unallowable vs. Expressly Unallowable Costs The Obvious and Less-Than-Obvious Impact
September 2015 Government Contract Insights
Subjects discussed in this September issue include:
- DCAA 2016 Staffing and Program Plan
- The Government Mantra: “Do as we say, not as we do”
- Price Reasonableness and Commercial Items. The Saga Continues
August 2015 Government Contract Insights
Subjects discussed in this August issue include:
- Court of Federal Claims to Contractors: You’re Totally at Risk in Firm Fixed Price Contract
- Recent GAO Activity
July 2015 Government Contract Insights
Subjects discussed in this July issue include:
- ASBCA Decision Helps Define a CAS Cost Impact “Not Good” for Government Contractors
- Protecting Delinquent Individual Taxpayers vs. Pursuing Delinquent Contractor Taxpayers Pricing or Worse
- DCAA’s New Cost Allowability Challenge Bonuses and Incentive Compensation
June 2015 Government Contract Insights
Subjects discussed in this June issue include:
-
The Senate Threatens DCAA’sBudget…and The White House Comes to the Aid of DCAA
-
Defective Pricing or Worse
- Miscellaneous News of Interest to Government Contractors
May 2015 Government Contract Insights
Subjects discussed in this May issue include:
- DCAA’s Continued Quest for Access to Contractor Employees
- Miscellaneous Activities of Interest to Government Contractors
April 2015 Government Contract Insights
Subjects discussed in this April issue include:
- Uncompensated Overtime – January 29, 2015 FAR Change Limits Method to “Adjusted Hourly Rate” (aka: Diluted Rate)
- ASBCA Cases and Accrued but Unpaid Compensation
- DOD-IG Reports: An Unexpected Source of Amusement
March 2015 Government Contract Insights
Subjects discussed in this March issue include:
- DCAA Policy on Overdue Indirect Cost Rate Proposal Issued then Removed (from www.DCAA.mil)
- OFCCP and Executive Orders The New Challenge for Government Contractors
- Government Improper Payments Going the Wrong Direction in 2014
February 2015 Government Contract Insights
Subjects discussed in this February issue include:
- Controversial DFARS Proposed Business Systems Rule: “Case Closed”
- GAO Reports of Interest to Government Contractors
- DOD-IG Semi-Annual Reports Unintentionally Highlight the Risk of Being a Government Contractor
- DCAA Audit Policy on Billing System Oversight – Follow-up
January 2015 Government Contract Insights
Subjects discussed in this January issue include:
- DCAA Audit Policy on Billing System Oversight
- Allowable vs. Unallowable Travel Costs: Avoiding Recurring Issues in 2015
- Federal Circuit Affirms Government Not Obligated to Purchase ID Contract Minimum Quantities
December 2014 Government Contract Insights
Articles Include:
- NASA OIG Recommends Outsourcing Contract Audits To Compensate for Risks Attributed to the Lack of DCAA Audits
- CAS 418 Litigation: Government Loses Again
- DOJ Statistics on Fraud Recoveries for FY2014
November 2014 Government Contract Insights
Articles Include:
- The Continuing Saga of DCAA’s #1 Wish: Access to Contractor Internal Audits
- DOD IG Report Cites Procurement Deficient in Following Guidance for Awarding Cost Reimbursement Contracts
- Industry Associations Blast White House Executive Order 31673
October 2014 Government Contract Insights
Articles Include:
- DOD Policy for Blended Rates on FAR 31.205-6(p) Compensation Cap
- DCAA Revises Policies for Billing Oversight and Voucher Testing
- CBCA Denies Contractor Billed G&A on T&M Direct Travel Costs
September 2014 Government Contract Insights
Articles Include:
- DCAA “In the News”
- DCAA Issues FY 2015 Audit Staff Allocation Plan
- Executive Order Possible Restricting Contract Awards to Inverted Government Contractors
August 2014 Government Contract Insights
Articles Include:
- GSA Announces No Change in FY2015 Travel Standard Per Diem Amounts
- Deputy Under Secretary of Defense Admits DOD Short on Meeting Competition in Acquisition Goals
- DOL Proposed Rule Would Require Federal Contractors to Report Summary Pay Data
- DFARS Business Systems Rule – Discussions at the August 18 Public Meeting
July 2014 Government Contract Insights
Articles Include:
- DFARS Business Systems Rule – Long Anticipated Proposal for Contractor Certifications and Independent Audits
- DCAA Guidance Memos: Revised Approach and Reporting Guidelines for Audits of CAS DS, Billing Rates, and Accounting Business Systems
- FAR Rule on Allowability of Legal Costs Whistleblower Proceedings
June 2014 Government Contract Insights
Articles Include:
- FAR Interim Rule June 24, 2014 Contractor Compensation Cap falls from $952,038 to $487,000
- DCAA Memos Address T&M Labor, Budgeted Compensation Ceilings, & DTIC IR&D Reporting Requirements
- DOD Proposes Rule to Track Services Contracts
May 2014 Government Contract Insights
Articles Include:
- DCAA’s Fiscal Year 2013 Report to Congress Unverifiable Self-Declarations of “Getting Better Every Year”
- 013 Senate Bill Would Put Brakes on Excessive Services Contract Spending
- ASBCA Determines Termination Claim Can Be Heard, Wage Claim on Hold
April 2014 Government Contract Insights
Articles Include:
- Contractors Continue to Face Unreasonable Time Frames for Addressing DCAA ICP Findings
- Recent Contract Disputes – Decisions on: IDIQ Ceilings, Flawed Solicitation Pricing Source, and GSA Contractor Recovery of Equitable Adjustment Claim
- Obama Issues Four Executive Orders Impacting Wages and Compensation for Government Contractors
- Corporate Confessions – The New Norm of Government Contracting
March 2014 Government Contract Insights
Articles Include:
- DCAA Streamlines Responsibilities in Obtaining Overdue Incurred Cost Proposals
- CBCA Rules Termination for Default is Termination for Convenience
- Snow Days and Government and/or Contractor Work-at-Home Policies
- Government Declaration: Government Rules are Cost Effective
February 2014 Government Contract Insights
Articles Include:
- OMB “Super Circular” Rewrites Grant Award and Oversight Policy
- ASBCA Addresses Fixed Fee Entitlement Under CPFF Contracts
- Two Court Decisions Highlight Contractor Misunderstandings in Filing CDA Claims
- DOJ Fraud Recoveries for 2013
January 2014 Government Contract Insights
Articles Include:
- Executive Compensation Statutory “Cap” Lowered to $487,000: Politically-charged Emotions Prevail Over Logic
- DCAA Moderates Its Position on Documentation Requirements for Professional & Consulting Fees
- DOE Guidance Renders Third-Party Civil Action Legal Costs Unallowable
- Has DCAA Unreasonably Determined Your Final Indirect Cost Rate Proposal Inadequate? Consider an “End Run”
December 2013 Government Contract Insights
Articles Include:
- DFARS Final Rule on Unallowable Fringe Benefits Costs
- Where Contractor Executive Compensation Ceilings Stands in Senate DOD Authorization Bill
- Grassley Staff Oversight Report States DFAS Financial Statements Flawed, Enabled by DOD IG
- Six Common Myths in Application of FAR Part 31 Cost Principles
- DOD IG Cites Contracting Agencies for Not Complying with Rules in Awarding Cost Reimbursement Contracts
November 2013 Government Contract Insights
Articles Include:
- New FAR and DFARS Rules Enhance Whistle Protections & Constrain Allowability of Contractor Legal Costs
- Government Contractors: Media and Social Media Disclosing Too Much Information to Government Regulators/Auditors?
- Idle Time: Allowable or Unallowable and Worst Case Scenario Contract Fraud
- DCAA Releases Updated Procedures for Sample Auditing Low Risk Incurred Cost Proposals
October 2013 Government Contract Insights
Articles Include:
- ASBCA Case on CAS Cost Impact Reconfirms That a New Regulatory Requirement Does Not Apply to Existing Contracts
- Unilateral Changes in Cost Accounting Practices: When Do Contractors Owe Disclosure and Cost Impact Calculations?
- DCAA Issues Guidance on Completing Forward Pricing Rate Audits
- DCAA Real-time Labor Audits or Floorchecks
September 2013 Government Contract Insights
Articles Include:
- DCAA’s FY 2014 Staff Allocation Plan: Audits Targeted as High Priority
- DCAA Audit Policies: Scanned Records and Forward Pricing Rate Proposals (FPRP)
- Proposal Cost and Pricing Data: Top Four Risk Issues Facing Government Contractors
August 2013 Government Contract Insights
Articles Include:
- Brief of July 2013 DCAA Guidance Memorandums
- Qui Tam Relator vs. The IRS: The Qui Tam Relator Wins
- DOT Inspector General Report Cites Agency Noncompliant in Awarding “Risky” Cost Reimbursement Contracts
July 2013 Government Contract Insights
Articles Include:
- Professional & Consulting Costs – High on List of Audit Questioned Costs
- DCAA Audit Program for Contractor Accounting Systems Why Limit a DOD (DFARS) Regulation Just to DOD Contracts?
- Major Defense Acquisition Programs (MDPAs) Report: Contract Type Irrelevant to Cost Control
- OMB Announces Extension for Accelerated Payment to Small Business Subcontractors
June 2013 Government Contract Insights
Articles Include:
- GAO Report on Capping DOD Contractor Salaries: Huge Increases in Unallowable Wages & DOD Cost Savings
- DCAA Fiscal Year (FY) 2012 Report to Congress
- Legislation Introduced to Automatically Debar Contractors Guilty of Crimes and Delinquent in Income Tax Payments
- GAO Recommends Government Employ Private Sector Acquisition Strategy
May 2013 Government Contract Insights
Articles Include:
- DCAA Policy on Access to Contractor Internal Audits –Predictably They Are All Relevant to All DCAA’s Audits
- DCAA Iterates “Auditor Communication” with Government Customer and Contractor
- Incurred Cost Proposals due June 30, 2013: Last Chance to Avoid “Adequacy” Problems
- GAO Recommends Government Employ Private Sector Acquisition Strategy
April 2013 Government Contract Insights
Articles Include:
- DCAA Issues Guidance Clarifying Allowable Health Benefits & Travel Per Diem
- DOD Issues Final DFARS Proposal Adequacy Checklist
- Contractor Agrees to Reimburse Employees for Back-Wages after Cited SCA Violation
- COFC Denies Gov’t Claim for $80 Mil due to CAS Noncompliance, Affirms Gov’t Filing within Statute of Limitations
March 2013 Government Contract Insights
Articles Include:
- DCAA 2012 Year in Review
- DOD IG Issues Outdated Report on DCAA Work Quality Improvement
- Legislators Continue Push Toward Lower Allowable Government Contractor Employee Compensation
- Failure to Maintain Records Can Be Costly
February 2013 Government Contract Insights
Articles Include:
- Operating Leases for Real Property Between Organizations under Common Control: Restrictions in Allowable Costs
- ASBCA Shreds Government TINA Defective Pricing Allegations
- A Silver Lining to DCAA’s Backlog in Performing Incurred Cost Audits
January 2013 Government Contract Insights
Articles Include:
- Getting Your Incurred Cost Proposal for FYE 12/31/2012 in Order – Starting NOW
- DCAA Access to Internal Audits: The Siege Continues
- Sequestration: Latest Scoop & Impact on Contractors
December 2012 Government Contract Insights
Articles Include:
- 2013 Defense Authorization Act Government Audits of Contractor Accounting Systems: Continuing Inexplicable Findings
- Federal Circuit Affirms CBCA Allowability Decision of Contractor Litigation Costs
- GAO Proposed Fee for Bid Protests
- Independent Advisory Panel to Review Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
November 2012 Contract Insights Newsletter
Articles Include:
- Status on DCAA Executing Low Risk Incurred Cost Proposal Audit Process
- DOD-IG: DOD Threshold for DCAA Proposal Audits Cost Taxpayer $249.1 Million Annually
- DOD Withholds $47 Million from Lockheed Martin for EVMS Flaws
- DOD BBP (Better Buying Power) 2.0
- OIG Finds DHS Non-Compliant with Cost Type Contract Selection Criteria
- So DCAA Has Disallowed A Cost: Should You Kiss The Money Good-Bye? Guest Author: Jerry Gabig, Attorney, Wilmer & Lee
October 2012 Government Contract Insights
Articles Include:
- ASBCA Case No. 57795: Flowers, Parties and Unified Jazz Ensemble = Unallowable Entertainment
- DCAA: Re-writing FAR 4.703within DCAA Audit Policy on Scanning Records
- Tightening Allowable Contractor Employee Wages: The Debate Continues
- DOD IG Finds Pentagon Not Following Own Guidance in Tracking Sole-Source Contracts