Adequate Purchasing System/Contract Purchasing System Reviews (CPSRs)

The government requires that certain contractors are subject to a detailed Contractor Purchasing System Review (CPSR) once every three years where failure to demonstrate proper purchasing policies, procedures and practices can lead to many adverse results.  Members of our staff have extensive experience addressing contractors’ purchasing systems.  Some have led or been members of government dedicated CPSR teams where they have actually conducted CPSRs for the government.  Many of our staff members have been responsible for ensuring their government contractor employers have an adequate purchasing system in place and the capabilities of passing a CPSR.

We combine this talent to provide a range of services to make sure our clients will pass a CPSR.  Sometimes our purchasing system specialists work with client contractors to evaluate their purchasing system by conducting a “mock audit” of their purchasing policies and practices where they provide a detailed analysis of the strengths and weakness of clients’ purchasing system, recommend fixes to perceived deficiencies, prepare written policies and procedures addressing the purchasing system that government auditors insist must be in place, help implement purchasing system enhancements, provide monitoring of the purchasing system and help liaison with government auditors during a CPSR.  Other CPSR consulting engagement may be less in scope where we provide only some of the services identified above.

The success of our efforts are evidenced by the fact that all of our clients have passed CPSRs when the audits were actually conducted.

Services have included:

• Conducting a “mock audit” of purchasing policies and practices to identify potential deficiencies and fixes
• Selecting a sample of transactions to identify strong and weak practices
• Establishing compliant purchasing practices including preparing necessary written policies and procedures
• Responding to CPSR findings by the government