Large Contractors May Need to Reimburse the Defense Department for the Cost of Bid Protests | PNWC’s Government Contracting Update

Both the House and Senate have passed their own versions of the 2018 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). Thee are, as always, differences in the two bills which will now have to be worked out in conference committee. The provision in the House version requiring the Defense Department to contract out 25 percent of its incurred cost audits in lieu of performing them in-house by DCAA (Defense Contract Audit Agency) is not in the Senate version (see 2018 NDAA Passes House). For the rest of this week, we will examine a few provisions that appear in the Senate version that are not in the House version.

Source: PNWC’s Government Contracting Update: Large Contractors May Need to Reimburse the Defense Department for the Cost of Bid Protests