A letter from the contracting officer unequivocally directing the contractor to exclude specific costs from its cost submissions as unallowable may not be an appealable final decision.
Contractors should seek...more
Case remanded to Court of Federal Claims to clarify whether CAS Impact Calculation involving multiple unilateral changes may include contractor “offsets”
Federal Circuit revives the question of whether the FAR 33.606...more
On Oct. 18, 2019, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued its decision in Raytheon Co. v. Sec. of Def., holding that salary costs associated with lobbying activities are expressly unallowable, and therefore...more
Latent errors in a data set provided by the Government led the ASBCA to hold the Government responsible for contractor-incurred costs.
To obtain relief pursuant to the mutual mistake of fact theory, contractors must...more
For a number of years, contractors have been required to expend substantial sums challenging baseless legal theories initiated by the Defense Contract Audit Agency (DCAA) and rubber-stamped by the Defense Contract Management...more
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The last three years have seen a run of Contract Disputes Act (CDA) statute of limitations (SOL) cases involving contractor incurred cost proposals (ICP). The sledding has been more difficult for contractors after the Federal...more