DCAA Compliance
Audit-Ready Posture

DCAA-ready accounting for set-aside primes

Incurred-cost submissions, timekeeping system audits, forward-pricing-rate development, and MRD-grade compliance reviews — the same back-office discipline we run on our own federal work, offered as a scoped engagement to set-aside primes whose auditors are about to walk in.

Service Lines

Four deliverables. One DCAA discipline.

Each engagement is scoped to a single audit cycle and the DCAA MRD module your contract is benchmarked against — not a generic compliance binder delivered in a sharepoint folder no one opens.

Incurred-Cost Submissions
Annual ICS packages assembled in DCAA-acceptable form — direct labor pools, indirect rate reconciliations, allocability evidence, and the CAS-aligned footnotes that keep the report from coming back as “inadequate cost accounting” on the first pass.
Timekeeping System Audits
Pre-acquisition review of labor-charging systems against the DFARS 252.242-7006 and DCAA timekeeping MRD standards — clock-in/out controls, supervisor certifications, charging-by-project discipline, and the after-the-fact corrections log your auditor will check first.
Forward Pricing
Forward-pricing-rate proposals and proposal-to-actual rate development that survive a CPSR — current, projected, and final billing rates with the union burden, indirect pool structure, and base-period justification each price needs to stand on.
Compliance Reviews
System-of-record compliance reviews against the DCAA MRD library — accounting, estimating, purchasing, EVMS, and material — written as remediation plans evaluators and contracting officers can read, not as a check-the-box checklist.

Who this is for

The firms we run this work for

  • Set-aside primes preparing for a DCAA floor-check

    SDVOSB and other small-business primes expecting their first DCAA floor-check on a cost-reimbursement or T&M set-aside — owners who know the contract is going to be scrutinized and need the accounting posture audit-ready before the auditor walks in.

  • Established subcontractors without a DCAA function on staff

    Service-focused subcontractors growing into cost-type work whose finance team was built for fixed-price billing — they need a DCAA-caliber back office without standing one up as a permanent full-time hire.

  • Traditional primes vetting a set-aside teammate

    Large primes evaluating a joint-venture or subcontracting partner for an SDVOSB or small-business set-aside where the teammate’s cost-accounting posture is part of the evaluator score — they need an independent read before the teaming agreement is signed.

  • Agencies standardizing contractor accounting posture

    Federal program offices and contracting offices that want a baseline read on a contractor’s accounting, timekeeping, and rate-development posture across a portfolio — scoped as a deliverable, not as a permanent seat at the table.

A note on the market

Why DCAA-ready subcontractors are scarce on set-aside bids

Most small primes can write a compliance matrix that holds up on paper. Sustaining the timekeeping discipline, the indirect rate development, and the incurred-cost reporting across a multi-year cost-type contract — that is what DCAA actually inspects, and it is a different problem from the one you solve on the proposal.

The evaluator-grade set-aside bidders are the ones whose accounting posture survives the first floor-check, whose forward-pricing rates hold up under a CPSR, and whose timekeeping systems pass a DFARS 252.242-7006 review before the auditor raises the finding. They are rare because the work is unglamorous, full-time, and not on the proposal timeline anyone scores.

Get the accounting posture audit-ready before the next floor-check

A single scoped engagement: a baseline read on your timekeeping, indirect rates, and the DCAA MRD posture your contract is graded against — with a remediation plan you can hand to finance and to the contracting officer on the same page.

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