Small businesses often lack the financial resources to staff their accounting departments with the expertise necessary to fuel strategic growth. Companies need a unique skillset to achieve and maintain accounting compliance in government contracts and many local CPAs lack this expertise. That's where outsourced accounting and automated bookkeeping comes into play, especially for government contractors. Working with a firm that can configure th...

Our comprehensive explanations will help new FAR users, while our in-depth examples will aid experienced contract professionals. This two-day offers critical information through hands-on workshops that will help both contracting and technical personnel better understand and navigate the FAR. Attendees will come away from the course feeling confident about how to apply the FAR to a variety of acquisition scenarios. Key Topics: Apply FAR Clause...

USDA Farm Product and Conservation (FPAC) shaped its portfolio-wide IT service requirements into multiple areas named for trees. Collectively, the new procurements shaped by each “tree area” addressed new and continuing IT service delivery needs previously covered by legacy contracts. FPAC shaped their strategic procurements based on thorough market research using innovative tactics and well thought out vendor communications to cre...

Learn Why Bid Protests occur and learn the steps you can take to prevent them Bid protests have become a regular feature of government contracting. Experienced contractors know that understanding how bid protests work—both the process and the substantive issues—is essential to maximizing their competitive positions. This is true when deciding if, and when, to protest, and knowing how to participate in a protest to help protect a c...

Effective budgets lead to accurate provisional billing rates that ensure total cost recovery and maximize net operating profit. In short, they provide financial guidelines, help identify and capture all costs, provide targets and goals, and plan for profitability and success. It's an important and time-consuming chore. That's why many government contractors find the task of completing a budget to be overwhelming. But it doesn't have to be. If...

A contract can be only as strong and as successful as its administration Contract administration is without a doubt the most complex and time-consuming part of government contracting and can pose serious risks to contractors who fail to comply with requirements in their contracts—the government can be very unforgiving in contractual matters. Less than stellar contract administration performance by contractors can result in poor assessme...

Federal agencies successfully using TBM know the rewards go further than just complying with another OMB mandate. While TBM supports meeting the requirements of CPIC and FITARA, it enables an agency to plan and manage its IT more effectively. TBM goes well beyond merely tracking technology costs. When adopted, it allows agencies to make more informed IT investment decisions, supporting them in delivering improved mission value. But getting the...

Effective budgets lead to accurate provisional billing rates that ensure total cost recovery and maximize net operating profit. In short, they provide financial guidelines, help identify and capture all costs, provide targets and goals, and plan for profitability and success. It's an important and time-consuming chore. That's why many government contractors find the task of completing a budget to be overwhelming. But it doesn't have to be. If...

Keep your subcontracts profitable and maintain compliance with federal requirements. Prime contractor-subcontractor relationships are key to winning, and successfully performing, most government contracts. In this program, an experienced government contract attorney will drill down into the most important issues in teaming agreements and subcontracts. Key Topics Covered Negotiating teaming agreements: standard and advanced provisions How bind...

Taught by expert lawyers who offer real-world, practical advice. This class also provides detailed information on how to identify and mitigate risk under the SCLS, apply wage and benefit rules, avoid violations, fulfill SCLS obligations, and understand special compliance issues from the Department of Labor. Our instructors provide all the ins and outs of how to navigate the complexities of the SCLS, not just the typical Department of Labor ag...