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Transparency in debriefs would improve competition, help small businesses — Washington Technology

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Taxpayers have the right to know how the government is spending their money. After all, the insights gained from total transparency in the federal procurement process can hold agencies more accountable. For this reason, administrations and congresses have undertaken initiatives to boost transparency and improve oversight of federal government spending on a bipartisan basis.

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Shutdown costing contractors millions, questions on pay swirling

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The partial government shutdown is costing federal civilian contractors millions of dollars per day. Are they paying their employees? Are they planning to pay them back when government funding is resolved? Alan Chvotkin, executive vice president and counsel at the Professional Services Council., joined Federal Drive with Tom Temin in the studio for some answers.

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Failure to Update Joint Venture Agreement Costs Mentor-Protege SDVOSB JV a Contract | SmallGovCon – Government Contracts Law Blog

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Updating your joint venture agreement is essential to maintaining compliance with SBA’s regulations and failing to update could cost you contracts.

Source: Failure to Update Joint Venture Agreement Costs Mentor-Protege SDVOSB JV a Contract | SmallGovCon – Government Contracts Law Blog

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SMALL BUSINESS FEDERAL GOVERNMENT CONTRACTING (“Smalltofeds”): Insights to Succeed In Small Business Federal Government Service Contracting

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Service contracting to the federal government is a natural venue for small business. It does not require a product with a niche market or capital intensive manufacturing facilities.

Source: SMALL BUSINESS FEDERAL GOVERNMENT CONTRACTING (“Smalltofeds”): Insights to Succeed In Small Business Federal Government Service Contracting

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SBA gives women-owned businesses better shot at federal market

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The Small Business Administration and private-sector partners are looking to give women-owned small businesses a better shot to entering the federal contracting market through their ChallengeHER program.

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GAO: Don’t Misrepresent Incumbent Capture in Proposals | SmallGovCon – Government Contracts Law Blog

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GAO sustained a protest recently where a contractor misrepresented to the agency that it had negotiated offers with incumbent workers when in fact it had not.

Source: GAO: Don’t Misrepresent Incumbent Capture in Proposals | SmallGovCon – Government Contracts Law Blog

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Waivers of Penalties for Unallowable Costs

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PNWC's Government Contracting Update

Expressly unallowable costs are particular items or types of costs which under the express provisions of an applicable law, regulation, or contract, is specifically named and stated to be unallowable (FAR 31.001). Contractors who include expressly unallowable costs in their final indirect cost rate proposals are subject to penalty equal to the amount of the expressly unallowable costs (FAR 42.709-1). We have written extensively about expressly unallowable costs in past years and how DCAA (Defense Contract Audit Agency) continuously tries to expand the definition to make almost any cost exception an “expressly unallowable” costs with the ASBCA countering their push by narrowing the definition and throwing out the Agency’s charges. For a recap of these issues, see “Expressly Unallowable Costs – ASBCA Narrows the Definition” and follow the various links.

Source: PNWC’s Government Contracting Update: Waivers of Penalties for Unallowable Costs

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Realities of Cost Recovery in the Wake of the Federal Shutdown | SmallGovCon – Government Contracts Law Blog

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Shuttering of the government (or parts of the government) following appropriations lapses has become an increasingly common phenomenon in recent years. Funding lapses interrupt the usual predictability of government operations, which is often to the detriment of both agencies and federal contractors that are left in proverbial limbo with stop work orders.

Source: Realities of Cost Recovery in the Wake of the Federal Shutdown | SmallGovCon – Government Contracts Law Blog

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