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The Cost Corner: Government Contracts Cost and Pricing – Compensation for Personal Services (Part I)

Government Contracts & Investigations

31] Thus, implementing and documenting adequate internal controls for determining compensation can significantly reduce audit risk. DCAA failed to consider subjective discriminators such as level of education, security clearances, customer satisfaction, and product quality.

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How to make better public procurement decisions with business intelligence: Insights from Ukraine

Open Contracting Partnership

Prioritize your data It is crucial not to attempt to use all the data from the procurement system, but rather to focus on high-quality data. If we were to create BI Prozorro today, we would start by developing a tool tailored to address specific problems of one stakeholder group, which would likely have a much stronger impact.

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Trump’s take on obscure law leaves contractors baffled

Federal News Network

And that’s called the internal controls and books and records provisions, or what we call the accounting provisions. And if they have controls that allow that sort of thing, then they have a weakness in their internal controls, and that’s a violation of the internal controls provisions.