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SAMPLE OF ARTICLES IN PRIOR ISSUES OF THE GCA REPORT
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RECENT DEVELOPMENTS
Past Performance Criteria
Updated Audit Guidance
Quick Close-Out Procedures
Debriefing Rules
Electronic Commerce
DOD Profit Guidelines
Idle Facilities
Proposed Changes to Travel and Relocation Costs
Elimination of Paid Cost Rule
Small Disadvantaged Businesses
New TINA and CAS Thresholds
Updates to Travel Reimbursement Rules
FAR Changes to
Executive Compensation
Recruitment
Entertainment
Reorganization and Restructuring
Employee Gifts and Recreation
Interest Cost Allowability
Asset Capitalization
Intracompany Transfers
Employee Morale
Environmental Clean-Up
New Cost Build-Up Rules
Recent CAS Changes
Status of 3% Tax Withhold Rule
Curbing Pass-Through Costs
Annual Executive Compensation Changes
Semi-Annual Interest Rate Changes
“Rolling Forward” cost rule
Appropriation and Acquisition Acts – Relevant
Contractor Developments
CASES/DECISIONS
Best Value Award Rules
Excessively Low Labor Rates
Defective Pricing Data
Proper Documentation of Costs
Profit on Claims
Meaning of “Benefit to the Government”
Conditions for Price Adjustments
What Protests are Likely to Succeed
Costs Not Yet Incurred
Key Personnel vs. Corporate Experience
Allowable and Unallowable Legal Costs
Refusal to Perform
Title to Unused Material
Subcontractors’ Past Performance
Allocation of Computer Costs
NEW/SMALL CONTRACTORS
Timekeeping Requirements
Adequate Accounting System
Auditing Your Proposal
Cost & Pricing Clauses
Allocating Home Office Costs
Tactics to Lower Bid Prices
Entertainment vs. Employee Morale
Case Study – Maximizing Termination Costs
Closing out Contracts
Consideration for Preparing Forward Pricing and
Incurred Cost Proposals
Adequate Billing System
Varieties of Indirect Rates
QUESTIONS & ANSWERS
Contract Financing Options
Establishing “Comp” Time
Uncompensated Overtime
Overhead Rate Options
Avoiding Cost Build-Up Requirements
Training Courses
Update on Per Diem Reimbursement
Rules on Errors
Subcontractor vs. Prime Rights
Keep it in or Keep it Out
B&P vs. Sales/Marketing Costs
G&A on Travel
How Many Indirect Rates are Required
Discussions vs Clarification
When Billing Rates are Lower (Higher) than Actual
From a Value Added to a Total Cost Input G&A Base
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