Small businesses are exempt from Cost Accounting Standards, but that shield disappears as you grow or when you join CAS-covered work. What CAS is and how to prepare before it applies.
Agencies can pursue false claims and false statements administratively under the Program Fraud Civil Remedies Act, with penalties and double assessments, and no need to go to court.
You can win a small business supply set-aside without making the product, but only if you meet the nonmanufacturer rule. Miss a requirement and your eligibility, and your award, can collapse.
When you win a set-aside, you promise to perform a minimum share of the work yourself. Violate the limitations on subcontracting and you risk the contract, penalties, and False Claims Act exposure.
On September 3, DoD converted the CMMC Phase 2 suspension from a policy memo into a binding DFARS class deviation, while DOJ settlements make inaccurate self-assessments a live False Claims Act risk.
Federal law bars using appropriated funds to lobby for a contract or grant, and requires you to disclose other lobbying. What the Byrd Amendment means for contractors.
If your firm advises the government, an impaired-objectivity conflict can bar you from related work. Why advisory and services firms face the hardest OCI to mitigate.
The Trade Agreements Act limits where products sold to the government can be made, and a false country-of-origin certification is a growing source of False Claims Act cases.
GSA is retiring the Price Reductions Clause and Commercial Sales Practices in favor of mandatory Transactional Data Reporting and Pricing 2.0. What Schedule holders must do now.
Charging labor to the wrong contract, or booking hours not worked, is one of the most prosecuted forms of government contract fraud. How mischarging happens and how to prevent it.
