Confusing Adequacy and Audit – Incurred Cost Proposal Fiction and Reality Part One – A Messy History

FAR 52.216-7(d) – Allowable Cost and Payment “2(i) The Contractor shall submit an adequate final indirect cost rate proposal to…

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I Will Pay You on Tuesday Out of My Award

 Let us finish my look at the recent Armed Services Board of Contract Appeals (ASBCA) Technology Systems, Inc. (TSI) (ASBCA…

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Bales Testifies Before House, Industry refers to DCAA as a “Collection Agency”

DCAA Director Bales testified yesterday before the House Armed Services Subcommittee On Oversight and Investigations. Here is a link to…

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The Good and the Bad — All in the Same Audit

Back to the recent Armed Services Board of Contract Appeals (ASBCA) Technology Systems, Inc. (TSI) (ASBCA 59577) and the nine…

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One Little Email and We Might be Talking a Different Case

The Armed Services Board of Contract Appeal is down again for the second time in the last several months. I…

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DCMA Criticized for not Following DCAA Recommendations on Incurred Cost Proposal Audits.

One again proving that the contractor should defend costs BEFORE DCAA makes its findings official. https://media.defense.gov/2017/Dec/18/2001857957/-1/-1/1/DODIG-2017-055.PDF  

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