Are you up to speed on the new COVID Safety Protocols for Federal Contractors, and related compliance concerns? If you haven't been following these critical legal developments (or even if you have) it's time to tune in and pay attention! Covered contractors will need to comply with a slew of new safety protocols - including sweeping employee vaccination mandates (and monitoring/documenting employee vaccination status), masking/physical distancing requirements (and related weekly monitoring and signage-creation) and the designation of a COVID Coordinator. They will also need to flow down COVID protocol clauses to their subs. If you do business with the Federal government, it is vital that you understand your new obligations or risk major non-compliance issues. In this webinar, experienced government contracting attorney Maria Panichelli will walk you through what you need to know: Where these new protocols came from; what exactly you (and your subs) need to do; when you need to do it; and the important things you need to think about in the immediate and long term. Maria will discuss how to deal with and respond to modifications to existing contracts, as well as new solicitations including the COVID deviation clause. If you haven't already received modifications seeking to add a COVID deviation to your contract, you likely will soon. At the very least, you will soon be going after a new contract with the COVID protocols clause built in. Figure out what that means for you, and how to protect yourself as must as possible in this new unprecedented world. Sign up today!

Government Contract Accounting is a specialized type of accounting required for all organizations that conduct business with the federal government. Indirect cost rates are necessary for contract pricing and payment purposes on government contracts. An indirect cost rate is simply a way of determining how to fairly and conveniently proportion indirect costs to a contract or activity of an organization. In this session, you will gain a practical understanding of Government contract accounting as it relates to:

The nature of direct versus indirect costs
What costs can be included in indirect rates
An example of a three-tiered indirect rate structure
How to prove your indirect rate calculation

In this class we will showcase the federal landscape and you will have the ability on how to consider your scope, scale and size for any contracting opportunities. We will discuss how to display your relevant past performance which match or exceeds government requirements. You will also learn how your past performances are rated by the buyers. Taught by Virginia PTAC procurement counselor Daryl Corley.

Governments Contractors will learn the benefits and risks carried by each type of contract (prime or subcontract) when working with the Federal Government.  In this course, contractor will receive an overview of various contract types available to government contractors, why certain contract types are utilized, preferences by the government, and risk associated with contract type. This foundation of contract types will ensure your business understands the risk when pursuing new opportunities. 

In 2016, the SBA implemented the SBA’s small business mentor-protégé program. This program may potentially be one of the most important and far-reaching federal contracting programs for small businesses in recent memory. The new rule establishes for the first time a Government-Wide mentor-protégé program for all small businesses, which is consistent with the program for participants in SBA’s 8(a) program. The course will cover the provisions of the rule, including: program eligibility requirements, negotiating mentor-protégé agreements, the benefits of these agreements, joint venturing between mentors and protégés for small business set-aside opportunities, and compliance with SBA’s requirements. The Program will also explore SBA’s recent significant changes to the rules that limit subcontracting under set-aside contracts.

The Instructor will take the class through all the available GSA GWAC and describe in detail their requirements, current expiration dates and expected dates for renewal and he will describe how to price the labor cats. The material provided will allow you to expand your market share and hopefully win new business.

A correct financial management approach will set your company up for success not only with your audits, but for long-term successful growth. In this class, you will learn:

When should you set up a compliant accounting system?
What are the practices and strategies to instill from the beginning to ensure that your internal systems are consistent with federal regulations?
What you should expect from a proper accounting system?
How to ace a DCAA / DCMA audit?
The benefits of over-preparing: using your sound financial practices to win proposals.

The seminar will be taught by Ken Brody, a founding partner of the law firm of David, Brody and Dondershine, LLP in Reston, Virginia. Ken has over forty years of experience dealing with procurement issues, as a trial attorney with the Department of the Navy, and for the past 30 years in private practice. His practice focuses on representing government contractors, particularly small businesses, on all aspects of government contracting, including negotiating agreements, regulatory requirements, the small business programs, bid protests and litigating contract disputes. He also teaches classes for Virginia PTAC on Teaming and Subcontracting and on the Government-wide Mentor-Protégé Program.

This series of carefully designed sessions addresses the basic compliance and business management processes and tools valuable to the small and emerging government contractor as well as the larger more established organizations. They provide in-depth guidance on establishing a compliant accounting system and indirect rate structure that will be accepted by DCAA and allow you to propose on and win government contracts. Information on proper labor timekeeping and recording practices will identify areas of compliance risk. The allowability of those costs identified as ”expressly unallowable” and the proper accounting for these costs will be discussed capped off with the value of comprehensive policies and procedures to ensure your continued compliance.

This series of carefully designed sessions addresses the basic compliance and business management processes and tools valuable to the small and emerging government contractor as well as the larger more established organizations. They provide in-depth guidance on establishing a compliant accounting system and indirect rate structure that will be accepted by DCAA and allow you to propose on and win government contracts. Information on proper labor timekeeping and recording practices will identify areas of compliance risk. The allowability of those costs identified as ”expressly unallowable” and the proper accounting for these costs will be discussed capped off with the value of comprehensive policies and procedures to ensure your continued compliance.