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CAS 418 – Allocation of Direct and Indirect Costs (Part 1 of 6)
*This is Part 1 of a 6-part blog. Each part addresses the fundamental requirements and techniques for application related to the standard, and provides specific examples. Part 1 addressed the overall purpose of the standard, as well as the requirements/techniques for...
Gratuities – Cautionary Tales for Contractors and Government Employees – Fred Geldon
Gratuities - Cautionary Tales for Contractors and Government Employees - Fred Geldon Recent events demonstrate that government investigators and prosecutors are taking more seriously the ethical regulations that govern gratuities. Cases in point: On April 25, 2013,...
FAR 52.217-3, 52.217-4 & FAR 52.217-5 Evaluation of Options
Applicability: As stated at FAR 17.208(a) thru (c), the provisions at FAR 52.217-3, 52.217-4, and 52.217-5 are included in solicitations as follows: (a) Insert FAR 52.217-3 when the solicitation includes an option clause and does not include one of the provisions...
CAS 408 – Accounting for Costs of Compensated Personal Absence (Part 2 of 2)
*This is Part 2 of a 2-part blog. Each part addresses the fundamental requirements and techniques for application related to the standard, and provides specific examples. Part 1 addressed measurement of the costs of compensated personal absence. This Part 2 addresses...
A New Paradigm for Training the Acquisition Workforce
One trillion dollars. That's trillion with a capital "T", folks. Our acquisition community is responsible for managing that amount and more on an annual basis through contracts, grants, and loans. In contractual expenditures alone, the figure is in the neighborhood of...
CAS 408: Accounting for Costs of Compensated Personal Absence (Part 1 of 2)
*This is Part 1 of a 2-part blog. Each part addresses the fundamental requirements and techniques for application related to the standard, and provides specific examples. This Part 1 addresses measurement of the costs of compensated personal absence. Part 2 will...
Adding Value to the Company: Moving to Dismiss Claims Under the Contract Disputes Act for Statute of Limitation Violations
To say that there is a crisis surrounding the closing of government contracts, especially large cost-type contracts held by large government contractors, would certainly not be an understatement. [i] Closing a contract essentially requires verification that the goods...
When Corrective Action May Be as Good as a Contract Award
Dan Gordon, Associate Dean for Government Procurement Law Studies at the George Washington University Law School, former Administrator of the Office of Federal Procurement Policy and, before that, Acting General Counsel at the Government Accountability Office ("GAO"),...
Afterthoughts: Contract Interpretation
If you are performing a contract and the terms of the contract become an issue, what are the key things that you should be concerned about? Is it different if you are a government procurement official or private contractor? Well I think the concerns are basically the...
FAR 52.216-31 Time-and-Materials/Labor-Hour Proposal Requirements (Part 3)
Commercial Item Acquisition NOTE: This is the third in a three-part series on Time-and-Materials/Labor-Hour Proposal Requirements. Part 1 addressed non-commercial item acquisition with adequate price competition (FAR 52.215-29). Part 2 addressed non-commercial item...
