In honor of the release of the 6th Edition of the Government Contracts Compliance Handbook, we are sharing six essential tips for government contractors to avoid labor charging issues when working on federal contracts. Labor...more
For 15 years, ACI’s Forum on DCAA & DCMA Cost, Pricing, Compliance & Audits provides government contractors with the opportunity to deeply discuss the most critical compliance issues, hear from senior government officials,...more
Welcome back to the Cost Corner, where we provide practical insight into the complex cost and pricing requirements that apply to Government contractors. The current topic is Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Cost...more
Welcome back to the Cost Corner, where we provide practical insight into the complex cost and pricing requirements that apply to Government contractors. The March 2023 Cost Corner introduced the three principle categories of...more
Welcome back to the Cost Corner, where we provide practical insight into the complex cost and pricing requirements that apply to Government Contractors. We just completed two articles on the Truth in Negotiations Act (TINA)...more
Welcome back to the Cost Corner, where we provide practical insight into the complex cost and pricing compliance issues facing Government contractors. This is the second installment of a two-part article on Defense Contract...more
Hosted by American Conference Institute, the 14th Advanced Forum on DCAA & DCMA Cost, Pricing, Compliance & Audits returns this June as the leading compliance event for the government contracting community and their advisors!...more
WHAT: The United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has reversed Appeals of Raytheon Company, ASBCA Nos. 60061 et al, 21-1 BCA 37,796 (Feb. 1, 2021), which found Raytheon’s policies for tracking potentially...more
Monetary inflation effectively imposes a tax on just about everything we purchase. But for many years, inflation was so muted and gradual that the economy could manage it with minimal disruption or personal hardship....more
WHAT: The U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) is now signaling that it may be more willing to consider requests for equitable adjustment to firm-fixed-price contracts to compensate contractors for the effects of inflation....more
Join the only leading event for defense, aerospace, and other government contractors & industry experts working in procurement, government compliance, cost pricing, and audit this June in Arlington, VA....more
This is the second in a series of articles concerning the audits and investigations related to the contracts and grants awarded, and relief funds provided, in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. This article first discusses...more
ACI’s 12th Advanced Forum on DCAA & DCMA Cost, Pricing, Compliance & Audits will take place on June 8 – 9th in a virtual format. This is a leading event for defense, aerospace and other government contractors, and industry...more
On March 23, 2021, The House Small Business, Subcommittee on Contracting and Infrastructure held a remote hearing titled: “The Interaction Between the Paycheck Protection Program and Federal Acquisition Regulations: What It...more
This is the third in a series of posts regarding what we believe will be an onslaught of government investigations and audits of COVID relief funds and contracting. Previously, we identified likely categories of programs,...more
Each year, Congress presents us in Title VIII of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) a potpourri of procurement reforms, changes, and additions. Some are effective immediately, while some are bound for rulemaking...more
The Contract Disputes Act (CDA) governs claims under FAR-based Government contracts. More than forty years after its enactment in 1978, we are apparently still not all in agreement as to when the time for filing a claim has...more
The Defense Contract Management Agency (DCMA) will institute a new Defective Pricing Pilot Team, according to a September 30, 2020, memo issued by Kim Herrington, Acting Principal Director of Defense Pricing and Contracting...more
We previously reported on a series of issues arising from the CARES Act and Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) that uniquely impact government contractors. We have cautioned that government contractors should be mindful of the...more
From the comfort of your own home office, join us at ACI's virtual Annual Advanced Forum on DCAA & DCMA Cost, Pricing, Compliance & Audits taking place on August 25-26, 2020 which addresses the latest developments on business...more
A recent Federal Circuit decision has sustained an expansive judicial reading of what constitutes an expressly unallowable cost under FAR Part 31. This decision, reached in the context of lobbying expenses, provides the...more
Cough…cough…ahem…cough… Any contractor who has had the misfortune of dealing with the Defense Contract Audit Agency (DCAA) likely knows all too well that the agency is the Will Rogers of costs – it never met a cost it didn’t...more
The April issue of National Defense Magazine brought a well-written article by Susan Cassidy and her colleagues at Covington & Burling LLP on a recent DOD IG report analyzing (and criticizing) spare aviation parts pricing,...more
GOVERNMENT CONTRACTING - The Small Business Administration (SBA) issued a notification of the availability of a white paper regarding the revision of its size standards methodology and explaining how it establishes,...more
On March 26, 2019, the General Services Administration (“GSA”) posted a notice on FedBizOpps that it was taking corrective action in response to the recent Court of Federal Claims (“COFC”) decision in the bid protest of...more