by Members & Staff | Sep 27, 2012 | Uncategorized
Guest Author: Elizabeth A. Ferrell, McKenna Long & Aldridge. Last August, Congress passed the Budget Control Act of 2011. This law authorized raising the debt ceiling, established caps on discretionary spending, and put a process in place to reduce the federal...
by Gary Zura, President, Contracting Matters, LLC | Sep 25, 2012 | Uncategorized
On July 31, 2012, the DOD issued Class Deviation 2012-O0012, Limitation on Amounts Available for Contracted Services. This was a step to implement language contained in Section 808 of the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA): “(1) establish a negotiation...
by David J. Taylor, Partner, Montgomery Fazzone & Taylor, PLLC. Member, Public Contracting Institute. | Sep 24, 2012 | Uncategorized
There is a booming business in making and selling counterfeit parts to the U.S. government. Most of it is of foreign origin, but some is not. These parts can affect consumer electronics, telecommunications, medical devices, automotive parts, critical infrastructure,...
by Ira E. Hoffman, Principal, Offit Kurman, P.A. and Director, The Public Contracting Institute | Sep 20, 2012 | FAR
Recently, the Small Business Administration (SBA) published a new rule setting size standards for the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) codes known as NAICS 2012. See 77 Fed. Reg. 49,991 (Aug. 20, 2012). The rule, which has an effective date of...
by Members & Staff | Sep 18, 2012 | Accounting, Audits, Cost, and Pricing, Audits & DCAA
DCAA Touts Increased Quality of Audits by Darrell Oyer, Darrell J. Oyer & Company: A canned DCAA presentation contends that the quality of audits has improved as evidence by the fact that in FY2003 DCAA examined $265b and questioned only $8b (3%); but in FY2011...