For 2024, the standard mileage rate for business will increase from 65.5 to 67 cents per mile. The rate for medical and moving will decrease by one cent to 21 cents per mile while the rate for charitable purposes is set by statute and remains unchanged at 14 cents per mile ..read more

The Office of Federal Procurement Policy (OFPP) recently published the compensation cap for 2023. The new cap is $619,000 and represents a 5.1 percent increase over the 2022 compensation cap. This is the largest annual increase since these caps were established by the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2013).  Following are the compensation caps by year: Prior to 2014, compensation caps were applied variously to 'top five employees in management positions', and 'all employees' depending on the year and whether the contract was awarded by DoD/NASA or a civilian agency. Also, compensation caps prio ..read more

For 2022, the standard mileage rate for business will increase to 65.5 cents per mile The rate for medical and moving will also increase to 22 cents per mile while the rate for charitable purposes remain at 14 cents per mile ..read more

FAR (Federal Acquisition Regulations) does not provide specific guidance with respect to the allowability of costs during strike periods. FAR 22.101-1(b) requires that Governmental Agencies (e.g. DCMA and DCAA) remain impartial concerning any dispute between labor and contractor management and not undertake the conciliation, mediation, or arbitration of a labor dispute. Later provisions in the same FAR section, contracting officers are instructed, in the event that labor disputes give rise to work stoppage, to impress upon contractors that they shall be held accountable for reasonably avoidab ..read more

The President has now signed the 2020 NDAA (National Defense Authorization Act). A 19 page summary of its key provisions prepared by the Senate Armed-Services Committee can be read or downloaded here. We have been discussing some of the procurement related provisions buried in the bill. So far we've discussed a new requirement for sole-source offerors to provide cost or pricing data it the Government determines that it is necessary to ensure fair and reasonable pricing, a requirement for GAO to study the extent to which DoD is awarding contracts when contractors refuse to provide adequate supp ..read more

The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Inspector General's latest Semiannual Report to Congress (April 1 - September 30, 2019) included CPAR (Contractor Performance Assessment Ratings) summaries for the contractor responsible for building its $17 billion vitrification plant at the Hanford Nuclear Site, Bechtel National. Specifically, the report included the following summary: Downgraded Contractor Performance Rating in False Claims Act Investigations: As a result of ongoing OIG (Office of Inspector General) criminal and civil investigations, the Department’s Office of River Protection issu ..read more

The new Acquisition Regulation Comparator (ARC) is now live on Acquisition.gov.  ARC provides users the ability to compare up to three regulations side by side. The results are displayed in a column layout, with regulations compared at the part/subpart level and lined up by the sections. Its not quite finished however. Currently it contains the FAR, GSAR (GSA FAR Supplement), and DFARS (DoD FAR Supplement) but soon (they say) ARC will release all of the civilian agency acquisition regulations (e.g. NASA, DOE, etc). ARC is easy to use - select the three regulations you want to compare, sel ..read more

 The IRS just announced an increase in the standard mileage rate for the final six months of 2022. Effective beginning July 1st, the rate for business travel will increase to 62.5 cents per mile from 58.5 cents per mile. The rate for medical and moving will also increase four cents per mile from 18 cents to 22 cents. The IRS stated that the adjustments are necessary to better reflect recent increases in fuel prices ..read more

This is a repost from a few years back but it also contains an updated link. If you ever need to find the location of your nearest (or cognizant) Defense Contract Audit Agency office, click here and enter your CAGE Code, your DUNS number or your ZIP code ..read more

For 2022, the standard mileage rate for business will increase to 58.5 cents per mile from 56 cents per mile in 2021. The rate for medical and moving will also increase from 16 to 18 cents per mile while the rate for charitable purposes remain at 14 cents per mile ..read more