By Nicole Owren-Wiest, Steve McBrady, Elizabeth Buehler and Charles Baek on Posted in Cost/Cost Accounting,Legal DevelopmentsThe Defense Contract Audit Agency (“DCAA”) recently made public its Fiscal Year 2017 Report to Congress, which, among other things, provides an update on incurred cost audits. Specifically, the report explains that DCAA: Closed “6,786 incurred cost years” using a variety of methods, namely reports and memos, but also for other reasons (e.g., per the… Continue Reading
By Steve McBrady and Daniel Wierzba on Posted in Claims,Cost/Cost AccountingContractors that use a fiscal year ending 12/31 submit their annual cost submissions in June of the following year. For 2010 incurred cost submissions (ICS) submitted in June 2011, many contractors may receive affirmative claims from the Government seeking to disallow some or all of those incurred costs, because the Government has a 6-year statute… Continue Reading
By Steve McBrady on Posted in Cost/Cost Accounting,EventsThe past twelve months have seen major developments on cost and pricing issues relevant to the “top of the ledger” – as well as the bottom line. On May 26, 2016, at 11:00 am -12:00 pm, Crowell & Moring attorneys Terry Albertson, Steve McBrady, Rob Burton, and Skye Mathieson will highlight some of the most… Continue Reading
By Steve McBrady, Terry L. Albertson and Skye Mathieson on Posted in Cost/Cost AccountingThe 2016 National Defense Authorization Act prohibits the Defense Contract Audit Agency from providing “audit support” to any non-DOD agency until the Secretary of Defense certifies that DCAA has reduced its backlog of incurred cost audits to 18 months or less, a restriction that could cause some disruption for contractors when DOD contracts are not… Continue Reading
By Steve McBrady, Terry L. Albertson and Skye Mathieson on Posted in Cost/Cost AccountingOn October 1, the DoD IG released a report titled “Evaluation of Defense Contract Management Agency Actions on Reported DoD Contractor Business System Deficiencies,” asserting that DCMA contracting officers “repeatedly” failed to comply with DFARS requirements involving reported business system deficiencies. The report, which is similar to a report issued on June 29, 2015 regarding DCMA’s… Continue Reading
By Peter J. Eyre on Posted in Legal DevelopmentsOn February 25 at 12 pm ET, I’ll be joining Joseph McCaffrey from BDO for a webinar focusing on the market for government contractors. We’ll be talking about DCAA trends, high priority compliance and ethics matters, new final and proposed regulations impacting the industry, and insights into recent M&A activity and financing trends. It will… Continue Reading
By Steve McBrady on Posted in Legal DevelopmentsIn December, I had the pleasure of speaking with Law360 regarding “Government Contracts Cases To Watch In 2015.” To no one’s surprise, the continuing DCAA audit backlog, and the Contract Disputes Act statute of limitations, are among the topics that contractors will be following with interest in 2015. In an upcoming post, we will discuss… Continue Reading
