Proposed DFARS Rule: Withholding Payments to DoD to Contractors
Wednesday, February 10th, 2010
This proposed rule follows on the heal of an earlier article in which it was discussed how DCAA is becoming less likely to approve a Contractor’s various Systems from accounting to material management.
This proposed rule will more likely than not become a final rule after comments are received.
Contractors will need to work very hard to ensure their Systems are compliant not only to FAR and CAS but also to DCAA audit standards
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CDA Statute of limitations
Wednesday, December 16th, 2009
Appeal of — McDonnell Douglas Services, Inc., ASBCA No. 56568, December 02, 2009.
Air Force contract. Appellant appeals the CO’s defective pricing claims.
The ASBCA dismisses “the appeal without prejudice for lack of jurisdiction under the CDA because the government’s defective pricing claim is time-barred.” In an opinion by Judge Cheryl Scott the Board rejects the “suggestion to the effect that we should interpret the CDA’s six-year limitations period more liberally when a government claim is involved than when a contractor’s claim is involved. Limitations principles generally apply to the government in the same way that they apply to private parties.”
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