DCAA current Attitude towards Contractors

Since being beat-up by GAO for being to cozy with Contractors, DCAA’s attitude toward contractors has changed significantly.  To prove it is not in the back pocket of the contractors, DCAA system audits more often than not result in disapproval of the systems being audited. It does not matter what the system is, cost accounting, contracting, program management, budgeting, proposal development, etc.  When a contractor fails an audit; and the system audited is not approved, auditing standards require more extensive testing of transactions for that system to be approved.  This results in auditors camping out at the contractor for extended periods resulting in more disruption to the contractors personnel and greater cost to the contractor in lost productivity. .This attitude does not show signs of changing any time soon.

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This entry was posted on Tuesday, January 26th, 2010 at 8:31 am.