Government Contractors Consulting

Your ability to recover indirect costs can be the difference between profit and loss to government contractors, but making sense of FAR, allowable costs, unallowable costs, allocation basis, and consistency is challenging. 

We assist in designing, maintaining, and reporting cost allocation structures to ensure maximum cost recovery and an equitable allocation of costs.  Services include:

• Cost Allocation Structure Design
• Indirect Rate development
   
  • Competitive Analysis
  • Forward Pricing Rates
  • Target to Actual Rate Analysis
  • Annual Incurred Cost Submission Preparation and Review
  • Audit and Final Rate Negotiation Support

Many business owners use entry level accounting products like QuickBooks in the early stages of their business, but when you enter the world of Government Contracting things change. To comply with the Federal Acquisition Regulations, Government contractors must have internal controls imbedded in the key business systems. We help make sure you are in compliance. We can help with:

• Accounting
• Estimating
• Purchasing
• Government Property
• Material Management
• Earned Value Management

Services include:

• Business system design and implementation
• Policy and Procedure drafting and reviewing
• Audit or review of existing business system for compliance with regulatory criteria
• Corrective action plan development

Even the best-run Government Contractors can find themselves in some form of contract litigation. Bid protest matters, legal claims against an audit finding, non-compliance claims, or qui tam claims (provisions of the False Claims Act (FCA) allowing whistleblowers to report fraud on behalf of the US government) can all result in legal actions. 

These actions often require a cost expert to work alongside your attorneys. 

Our Services include:

• Expert cost analysis and support
• Bid Protest support
• Expert witness testimony
• Statute and regulations interpretation
• Attestation of facts and circumstances
• Claims, Disputes, and Terminations

Government Contractors have an added complexity to reporting and billing due to the numerous FAR requirements. Most commercial businesses are not prepared to meet these requirements when awarded their first contract. 

Our compliance and audit services are designed to help you to meet the regulatory reporting requirements and help navigate through a variety of Government audits.  Our team of experts has over 100 years of combined experience successfully developing compliance and audit solutions.

• Compliance support for areas such as:
   
  • Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR)
  • Cost Accounting Standards (CAS)
  • Disclosure Statement Development
  • General Services Administration (GSA) programs
  • Internal Controls
  • Policies and Procedures
• Audit support for audits such as:
   
  • Incurred Cost
  • Business Systems
  • Proposals
  • Post-award/Defective Pricing
  • SF1408 Pre-Award Checklist
  • GSA
  • Support of Disclosure Statements Audits

Today buying and selling businesses is a common way to grow your business, realize increased value, or execute a succession plan. Whether you are preparing to sell your business or acquire one, we are here to provide valuable insight into the process.  Our consulting group, working in tandem with our audit and tax teams, can help you maximize the deal's value and minimize risk.  We can help with:

• Due diligence
• Contract reviews
• Compliance reviews
• Program profitability analysis 

The Federal Government has many opportunities to grow your business, but winning the bid and meeting compliance requirements can be daunting. To help you grow, we can guide the preparation of data elements needed in large proposals.

We can ensure your pricing aligns with your technical approach and maximizes your cost recovery. Helping to optimize the federal requirements to reach profitability is our specialty. 

Ways we can help:

• Indirect Rate strategy review
• Salary survey gathering
• Cost model development
• Subcontract analysis
• Fee/Profit strategy