Accounting System Audits
Before award of many contracts and during contract performance government auditors will likely conduct an accounting system audit where they review contractors’ cost accounting systems and practices. New business system requirements have made an adequate accounting system a primary focus of government audits. A negative accounting system opinion can definitely affect award selection chances if conducted before contract award and an accounting system audit resulting in an “inadequate” opinion often results in payment delays or withholds and inability to receive task or delivery orders until an “adequate” opinion is received. A positive “adequate” opinion following an accounting system audit can be a strong discriminator in winning prime contracts and subcontracts where customers prefer doing business with those firms whose accounting system is “adequate.”
Our staff consists of former DCAA auditors and supervisors, CFOs and controllers, government compliance experts and ACOs so they understand thoroughly what an accounting system audit entails – what practices must be in place to receive an “adequate” opinion, what auditors will be looking for during their accounting system audits, how potential negative opinions may be addressed before an accounting system audit report is written and how adverse opinions can be responded to. A common accounting system consulting engagement often involves our putting on “audit hats” to conduct a mock audit of your accounting system and practices, evaluate strengths and weaknesses of your accounting system and recommend and help implement necessary fixes to ensure you receive a positive accounting system opinion when an actual accounting system audit occurs. Though areas of review vary by contractor an evaluation of your accounting system during one of our consulting engagement typically covers such areas as:
- Distinguishing between direct and indirect costs
- Screening unallowable costs
- Allocating indirect costs
- Timekeeping and labor charging
- Expense reporting
- Treatment of material costs
- Treatment of uncompensated overtime
- Adequacy of internal controls
- Tracing selected transactions through the accounting system to ensure job costs are reconcilable with billed costs and general ledger as well as “source documents” (e.g. timesheets, vendor invoices)
- Allocation of indirect costs through appropriate indirect cost rates
- Indirect cost rates are monitored during the year
- Ensuring you have adequate written policies and procedures
Government Proposals
We have helped clients and former employers win numerous awards ranging from $2.5 million to $500 million by helping them prepare winning proposals. Different types of contracts such as cost reimbursable, time-and-material/labor hour or fixed price require different approaches. Each RFP is usually different, containing different assumptions, different formats, etc. where the government or prime contractors can find numerous reasons to disqualify a bidder if the proposal is not just right. Preparing a proper proposal forms the basis for our clients’ business so we take our proposal consulting very seriously where we have an unusual interest in making sure it is a winning proposal.
Our staff’s broad experience allows us to provide a range of proposal consulting services to help our clients prepare winning proposals. As cost and pricing specialists, part of our staff help prepare proposals by offering clients assistance in understanding the solicitation requirements, developing pricing strategies, and preparing price and cost sections of the winning proposal. As former contracting officers and source selection officials we understand the basis for selecting winning proposals where we provide consulting services for strategizing the best proposal approach, negotiating the contract and reviewing draft and final proposals as well as feedback for orals presentations. Our federal contracts attorneys can help ensure contracting elements of the proposal and the actual contract best protect our clients’ interests. Finally, our proposal manager experience allows us to lead the process of preparing a winning proposal.
Our proposal consulting services include:
- Providing essential input into devising cost accounting and pricing strategies
- Preparing forward pricing rates that meet management’s pricing objectives
- Preparing cost and pricing sections of the proposal
- Ensuring our clients will successfully pass an audit of their proposed pricing where we ensure their accounting practices are adequate, the basis of estimated direct costs make sense, the proposed indirect cost rates are based on sufficient cost data and profit rates can be justified.
- Determine when commercial pricing may be appropriate
- Reviewing and negotiating contract requirements to best protect interests of clients
- Participating in review of draft, final and best and final offers
- Leading efforts to ensure all elements of the proposal (e.g. technical, management, pricing) are communicated effectively and meet solicitation requirements.
Indirect Cost Rate Structure
The determination of how a contractor will allocate indirect costs to its contracts and the selection of what indirect rates to charge government contracts is critical to meeting cost and pricing objectives, whether they are to maximize cost recovery or to lower cost recovery to maintain price competitiveness. The selection of how indirect costs will be allocated and what indirect rates to apply should be periodically evaluated against changing current and future contracting opportunities, competitive threats and business operations. The cost accounting rules provide general guidelines for allocating indirect costs but also allow for significant flexibility for determining what indirect cost rates to use and what costs will be included or excluded from the indirect cost pools and bases that are selected.
Our network of consultants are uniquely qualified to help. Our staff are former CFOs, pricing specialists, DCAA auditors and supervisors who allow us to contribute to providing the best possible indirect rate structure where we help clients decide what indirect rates to use to allocate their indirect costs such as overhead, material/subcontract handling, service centers, general and administrative, etc. Whatever indirect cost method is selected, you can expect audit scrutiny of your indirect rates so our indirect cost rate consultants can help you be prepared to defend your selections.
Auditors will insist that contractors monitor their rates throughout the year and demonstrate they have the capability of forecasting what their indirect cost rates will be so they can change their provisional indirect cost rates when significant changes are apparent. We help clients establish an indirect rate cost model to monitor their indirect rates and show them how to adequately monitor their rates throughout the year.
Contractors also need to demonstrate they have written policies and procedures describing how indirect costs are allocated, what rates are used, component costs of those indirect cost rates and how indirect cost rates are monitored during the year.
Our indirect cost rate structure consulting services include:
- Putting forth alternative methods for allocating indirect costs to contracts
- Selecting indirect cost rates that may best meet our clients’ cost objectives
- Suggesting methods for allocating these indirect costs to government contracts, subcontracts, task/delivery orders, grants, etc.
- Recommending what component costs will be included in each cost pool and base or relevant service centers to best meet our clients’ pricing objectives
- Conducting sensitivity analyses to help select the best alternative indirect cost rate structure
- Establishing a justification for the selected method of allocating indirect costs.
- Preparing a written policy that auditors will consider a requirement describing your method of allocating indirect costs, indirect cost rates and how indirect cost rates are monitored throughout the year.
- Preparing changes to the CAS Disclosure Statement, if needed
- Working with DCAA and Administrative Contracting Officers to accept proposed changes
Executive Compensation
Employee compensation, especially senior executive compensation in small to mid-sized companies, has become the number one area for audit scrutiny. Such executive compensation audits include adequacy of “internal controls” in establishing the level of compensation as well as questioning executive compensation as “unreasonable.” DCAA, that has dedicated executive compensation teams, takes a highly controversial approach to evaluating contractors’ executive and increasingly non-executive compensation levels. They typically use 2-4 compensation surveys, compute an “average” compensation level for specific positions, benchmark their surveys results to compensation levels of contractors being audited, and compute an “excessive” amount after applying a 10% “range of reasonableness” factor. Though initial audit positions may be quite harsh, we find such initial government positions on executive compensation is often highly susceptible to being challenged where DCAA is, interestingly, often quite open for fact based, well presented arguments. In addition, there are recent cases that have significantly challenged DCAA’s approach to conducting executive compensation audits that are being addressed both within industry and the government.
Our staff has unique experience “on both sides of the table” which gives us a particular advantage to challenging audit positions. We have actually engaged in executive compensation audits as DCAA auditors and supervisors. We have had over 100 consulting engagements in challenging DCAA executive compensation positions where we have an excellent track record in successfully resolving positions at both the audit and ACO level. Our access to compensation surveys and other resources together with our extensive knowledge of the rules and guidelines for executive compensation allow us to put forth reasoned positions that usually result in modifications to audit positions on executive compensation.
Typical engagements include:
- Helping establish reasonable executive and non-executive compensation levels
- Reviewing the process of establishing executive compensation levels to help ensure proper procedures are used to minimize opportunities for negative findings
- Evaluating reasonableness of government positions on executive compensation
- Countering the government’s use of compensation surveys and percentile level assumptions
- Preparing reasoned position papers that provide the basis to either challenge an audit position or, at least, provide the justification for arriving at a compromise solution.
- Participating in meetings with DCAA and ACOs to resolve issues
Incurred Cost Proposals/ICE Proposals
Preparation of timely and accurate required incurred cost submittals, usually referred to as incurred cost estimates (ICEs) or incurred cost proposals (ICPs), is often confusing and quite time consuming, especially for the busy accounting staff that does not have a lot of experience with preparing incurred cost proposals. The Defense Contract Audit Agency has established precise format requirements, which frequently are modified, where recent changes to the Federal Acquisition Regulation have made that format a regulatory requirement. Proper ICE preparation requires not only completion of specified exhibits but calls for considerable judgment to ensure the best possible results of incurred cost proposals are achieved. DCAA is very strict in its requirements that specific exhibits in its incurred cost proposal reconcile with others.
Our staff of former DCAA auditors and supervisors, contractor accounting compliance executives, CFOs/controllers and division accounting executives have contributed to our preparation of literally hundreds of incurred cost proposals. If our client wants us to prepare the ICE proposal we can complete the incurred cost proposals in considerably less time than your busy staff can. If our clients prefer us to review their work then our broad experience can allow several perspectives. If the incurred cost proposals show our client overbilled the government then we will offer alternative approaches to mitigate having to pay back the government. If it turns out the incurred cost proposals show our client underbilled the government then we present alternatives on how to present the incurred cost proposal and what steps are needed if payments are desired. DCAA auditors are now required to be transparent in their communications during the audit so we will make ourselves available to apply our knowledge of how DCAA conducts its audits to identify issues as they arise and proactively address them to minimize questioned costs in the final report. We will also be available to address unfair questioned costs in written and verbal formats intended for auditors, their supervisors and management as well as ACOs.
ICE consulting services include:
- Review of clients’ incurred cost proposals
- Formulate strategies to obtain the best incurred cost proposal results
- Prepare incurred cost proposals
- Be available during the audit to proactively address issues as they arise.
- Respond to questioned costs and other issues in written and verbal formats
- Help negotiate positions with DCAA management and Administrative Contracting Officers.
Auditing Subcontractors
Prime contractors or upper-tier subcontractors, not the government, are usually responsible for most aspects of their subcontractors. The government is not considered to have “privity of contract” with their subcontractors so the prime contractor is responsible for all cost, pricing and contract administration of their subcontractors. Prime contractor and upper-tier subcontractor oversight of their subcontractors has become a very hot area these days and a source of audit scrutiny by DCAA.
The Defense and Energy Departments and DCAA have come out with guidance stressing the importance of prime, as opposed to government, audit responsibility. Recent government guidance at both federal agencies and at the state level has made adequate audits of subcontract cost or pricing data a key aspect of any prime contract. Adequate subcontract administration is now a critical aspect of contract administration where prime contractors must now explicitly ensure their subcontractors are monitoring their indirect cost rates, adjusting their billings and adequately submitting subcontract incurred cost proposals. Inadequacy of subcontractors’ accounting practices, which are usually unknown by the prime, is becoming a more frequent basis to downgrade the prime contract proposal. Adequacy and responsiveness of subcontractor proposals can also be important factors in award decisions as well as administering the contract once an award is made.
Our staff, consisting of former CPA licensed DCAA auditors and supervisors, are uniquely qualified to both conduct the necessary audits and to have their results be credible with the government. Subcontractors’ proposals, provisional billing rates, accounting practices, invoicing practices, claims, etc. need to be audited yet few prime contractors have the ability or resources to provide such services or if they do subcontractors may object to potential competitors reviewing their books. Though delegation of some audit responsibility to the government is possible, delays may hold up critical award and administration and many subcontracting firms may be adversely affected by undergoing DCAA audits rather than having our firm conduct them. We frequently audit subcontractors’ proposals and records and provide necessary conclusions to our clients for their pricing and oversight needs while keeping the details of our audits confidential in order to maintain the trust of the subcontractors we audit.
Subcontractor proposal audit services include:
- Audit subcontractor proposals, forward pricing rate proposals, invoices, claims, etc.
- Evaluate subcontractor’s accounting practices
- Recommend fixes for subcontractor deficiencies
- Provide subcontract administration services for prime contractors and upper-tier subcontractors
Cost Accounting Standards (CAS)
Most of our staff are experts in the cost accounting standards (CAS). They have gained their CAS consulting expertise through special CAS training, have held CAS monitor positions with DCAA and are recognized authorities who frequently teach, lecture and publish articles on the cost accounting standards. Over 100 articles on the cost accounting standards written by our staff have been published.
Many of our engagements include conducting CAS “mock audits” where we evaluate a client’s compliance with relevant cost accounting standards, identify specific deficiencies government auditors would likely see and recommend and help implement fixes as needed. We also provide CAS training seminars where we identify CAS issues confronting our clients and customize CAS training to address relevant CAS issues.
Some contractors must comply with all cost accounting standards, many more are modified CAS covered but even most non-CAS covered contractors must adhere to many standards that are duplicated or referenced in the Federal Acquisition Regulation. Businesses need to select cost accounting allocation practices that benefit them while demonstrating CAS compliance with relevant cost accounting standards. Our CAS consulting services can help in all CAS-related areas.
CAS covered contractors usually have to prepare CAS Disclosure Statements. Firms currently not CAS covered but are anticipating larger contracts may want to prepare a CAS Disclosure Statement when they are competing against other contractors who have disclosure statements while subsidiaries of larger companies often must prepare a CAS Disclosure Statement. Disclosure Statements need to be crafted to both pass DCAA audits for compliance with CAS and to ensure the disclosure statement accurately reflects their government contract accounting practices. CAS Disclosure Statements, if carefully crafted, can provide a basis to flexibly price and cost government contracts to achieve maximum profitability within the limits of CAS compliance.
CAS Consulting Services include:
- “Mock audit” of compliance with CAS
- Provide fixes to CAS deficiencies
- Respond to inquiries for proper interpretations of CAS
- Provide CAS on-site training
- Prepare full or sections of CAS Disclosure Statement or evaluate draft CAS Disclosure Statements
- Evaluate impact of cost accounting changes and prepare cost impact statements when needed
Prepare Disclosure Statements
Most of our staff are experts in the cost accounting standards (CAS). They have gained their CAS consulting expertise through special CAS training, have held CAS monitor positions with DCAA and are recognized authorities who frequently teach, lecture and publish articles on the cost accounting standards. Over 100 articles on the cost accounting standards written by our staff have been published.
Many of our engagements include conducting CAS “mock audits” where we evaluate a client’s compliance with relevant cost accounting standards, identify specific deficiencies government auditors would likely see and recommend and help implement fixes as needed. We also provide CAS training seminars where we identify CAS issues confronting our clients and customize CAS training to address relevant CAS issues.
Some contractors must comply with all cost accounting standards, many more are modified CAS covered but even most non-CAS covered contractors must adhere to many standards that are duplicated or referenced in the Federal Acquisition Regulation. Businesses need to select cost accounting allocation practices that benefit them while demonstrating CAS compliance with relevant cost accounting standards. Our CAS consulting services can help in all CAS-related areas.
CAS covered contractors usually have to prepare CAS Disclosure Statements. Firms currently not CAS covered but are anticipating larger contracts may want to prepare a CAS Disclosure Statement when they are competing against other contractors who have disclosure statements while subsidiaries of larger companies often must prepare a CAS Disclosure Statement. Disclosure Statements need to be crafted to both pass DCAA audits for compliance with CAS and to ensure the disclosure statement accurately reflects their government contract accounting practices. CAS Disclosure Statements, if carefully crafted, can provide a basis to flexibly price and cost government contracts to achieve maximum profitability within the limits of CAS compliance.
CAS Consulting Services include:
- “Mock audit” of compliance with CAS
- Provide fixes to CAS deficiencies
- Respond to inquiries for proper interpretations of CAS
- Provide CAS on-site training
- Prepare full or sections of CAS Disclosure Statement or evaluate draft CAS Disclosure Statements
- Evaluate impact of cost accounting changes and prepare cost impact statements when needed
Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR)
The Federal Acquisition Regulation is the set of rules and procedures that all firms doing business with the federal government must adhere to. The FAR is a 53 chapter book that can be quite daunting where different sections have more relevance than others depending on the type of contracts that are received. For example, if a contract price is based upon a cost build up estimate and is negotiated, FAR Part 15 provides details on what elements must be adhered to. Or, for example, the requirement to exclude “unallowable” costs in a contract price or billing is covered in the “FAR Cost Principles” found in FAR Part 31. FAR Part 52 includes many contract clauses that are included in contracts where only a handful may be critical to any particular contract and some are required to be passed down to subcontractors.
Failure to adhere to essential FAR provisions can result in not winning awards, giving up profits, being barred from future work or undergoing expensive investigations. However, knowledge about what FAR provisions are important and what needs to be done to comply provides wonderful opportunities to expand your business with little effort. Though potentially daunting, the complexity of the Federal Acquisition Regulation should not prevent you from seeking business with the federal government. FAR compliance can be understood and managed. Learning to live with the Federal Acquisition Regulation can become quite prosperous.
Our staff are experts in the FAR provisions. Collectively, they have authored over 300 published articles on a wide variety of FAR issues and taught many seminars to industry and government personnel. Their roles as government auditors, contracting officers and government attorneys have required them to master the FAR and apply it from the government’s perspective. Their post government work as CFO, contract managers, government compliance specialists, attorneys and now consultants provide practical experience helping clients manage FAR requirements. Our staff’s participation in writing the GCA REPORT and GCA DIGEST means they are intimately familiar with all current changes, government guidance and case decisions that have practical significance.
Our FAR related consulting services include:
- Assessments of compliance with relevant FAR provisions and clauses
- Training e.g. FAR Cost Principles, Pricing and Costing requirements
- Preparation of FAR required submittals such as forward pricing proposals, incurred cost submittals, termination settlement proposals, contract closeouts, etc.
- Providing contract administration on an as-needed basis
- Advice as FAR issues arise in real time telephone and email communications as the need arises
- Selecting subcontractors and proper subcontract administration
Commercial Item Pricing
Claiming a proposed product or service is a commercial item provides considerable advantages to offerors of these items. Proposals of commercial items allow contractors to avoid certified cost or pricing data or other cost build up requirements, prevent vulnerability to allegations of defective pricing and potential investigations of wrongdoing and require adherence to significantly less onerous terms and conditions. Perhaps most importantly, commercial item pricing usually offers contractors the opportunity to price their products and services at significantly higher profit margins since they are free of having to base their prices on cost build-up estimates.
There are numerous circumstances that justify the assertion an offered product or service is a commercial item (e.g. prior determinations, catalog price, COTS supplies, “of a type” offerings, sales to federal, state, local and foreign governments, modifications, nondevelopmental items) and where appropriate documentation can be used to justify a claim that the offered product or service is a commercial item. We provide an understanding of how the government conducts market research and how contractors can proactively use this approach to provide a comfort level to the government that their commercial item determinations are valid. The government, using auditors, is currently taking steps to impose restrictions for asserting products and services do not qualify as commercial items so challenges to their positions need to be put forth and proactive steps are needed beforehand to establish the commercial item status of offered products and services.
Our staff includes both auditors who have conducted such reviews as well as contracting officers who have evaluated commercial item determinations. Our consultants have mastered the requirements for commercial item determinations and have helped clients prepare sufficient documentation, including conducting market research, to justify such commercial item determinations. Our commercial item specialists have published numerous articles in the GCA REPORT and DIGEST on how to qualify an item as a commercial item and how to price those commercial products and services.
Typical commercial item consulting services include:
- Identify opportunities of offering contractors’ products and services as commercial items
- Advice on new regulations covering commercial item pricing
- Recommend proactive steps to ensure products and services can qualify as commercial items
- Conduct market research that justifies commercial item determination
- Prepare documentation that provides evidence products and services are commercial items
- Provide justification for use of commercial item pricing within new FAR rules
- Evaluate subcontractor claims for commercial item pricing
Avoid Defective Pricing/Certified Cost
Many negotiated contracts and subcontracts require submission of certified cost or pricing data. When certified cost or pricing data is submitted, contractors are vulnerable to extensive audits as well as allegations of defective pricing under the Truth and Negotiation Act (TINA) which can lead to potential investigations of criminal or civil fraud. There are several opportunities to avoid having to submit certified cost or pricing data which is usually quite desirable. For example, if certified cost or pricing data is not submitted then defective pricing audits and allegations are avoided, thereby eliminating the risk of downward adjustments to contract prices and investigations into potential criminal or civil fraud. Current regulations allow for numerous exemptions for submitting certified cost or pricing data so contractors need to be aware of when these exemptions apply, either to their own proposals as well as their subcontractors. We have extensive knowledge of when contractors and their subcontractors may avoid submission of certified cost or pricing data.
If submission of certified price and costing data cannot be avoided, then strict compliance with FAR Part 15 and other regulations must be achieved. Agencies are increasingly rejecting proposals due to some perceived deficiency in the proposal so it is always a good idea to make sure that proposals are compliant with all requirements related to certified cost or pricing data. Our staff has been on “both sides of the table” as DCAA auditors auditing proposals for compliance with certified price and costing requirements and consultants ensuring proposals are compliant with these requirements.
Post award audits, which are otherwise known as defective pricing audits, can and often do result in erroneous findings or failure to apply relevant offsets to mitigate defective pricing questioned costs. When a defective pricing audit is conducted clients often wisely seek our advice so as to lessen responses that can result in either defective pricing allegations or as is increasingly common these days, expensive and time consuming investigations into potential civil or criminal wrongdoing once defective pricing is suspected. Our staff consists of former DCAA auditors and supervisors who were members of dedicated defective pricing teams so they are fully knowledgeable about how DCAA does business and very sensitive to any danger signs.
Our Services include:
- Ascertaining the need to submit certified cost or pricing data where, for example, parts of a proposal may be excluded from these requirements
- Identify opportunities to use alternative measures such as cost or pricing data that is not certified, price analysis, etc.
- Ensure requirements of certified cost or pricing data are complied with to avoid rejection of proposals
- Avoid vulnerability to assertions of defective pricing during the proposal process
- Liaison with audits conducting defective pricing (post award) audits
- Respond to audit assertions of defective pricing
Contract Administration Services
Contract administration is too important a function to have less than the best possible professionals taking care of it. Administering contracts, limiting company liability, making the right risk versus benefit tradeoffs, etc. must be performed by highly experienced contract administration professionals. Many companies cannot find or afford to hire the requisite professional talent but they should not settle for less.
Our staff has extensive experience as both Contracting Officers and Administrative Contracting Officers for the government as well as Contract Managers and Directors in the private sector as well as federal contract attorneys. This experience base allows us to offer clients all levels of contract management services on an as-needed basis to ensure clients receive the most appropriate advice in a highly cost effective manner. Whether clients wish to outsource the contract administration function to us, have us establish the contract administration function in-house, supervise on-going activities or provide services on an as-needed basis we have the staff to ensure the critical contract administration functions are taken care of at minimal expense.
Examples of contract administration consulting services include:
- Establishing the contract administration function including preparing policies and procedures, hiring personnel, training, etc.
- Taking over a firm’s contract administration function on an outsourced basis where we provide contract administration personnel, experienced contracts managers and federal contract attorney services
- Supervising contract and subcontract administration functions either on an occasional or a day-to-day basis
- Establishing special contract administration requirements on a given contract
- Providing “high value” contract administration services from our attorneys and former contracting managers on an as-needed or retainer basis
Contractor Purchasing System Reviews (CPRS)
The government requires that certain contractors are subject to a detailed Contractor Purchasing System Review (CPSR) once every three years where failure to demonstrate proper purchasing policies, procedures and practices can lead to many adverse results. Members of our staff have extensive experience addressing contractors’ purchasing systems. Some have led or been members of government dedicated CPSR teams where they have actually conducted CPSRs for the government. Many of our staff members have been responsible for ensuring their government contractor employers have an adequate purchasing system in place and the capabilities of passing a CPSR.
We combine this talent to provide a range of services to make sure our clients will pass a CPSR. Sometimes our purchasing system specialists work with client contractors to evaluate their purchasing system by conducting a “mock audit” of their purchasing policies and practices where they provide a detailed analysis of the strengths and weakness of clients’ purchasing system, recommend fixes to perceived deficiencies, prepare written policies and procedures addressing the purchasing system that government auditors insist must be in place, help implement purchasing system enhancements, provide monitoring of the purchasing system and help liaison with government auditors during a CPSR. Other CPSR consulting engagement may be less in scope where we provide only some of the services identified above.
The success of our efforts are evidenced by the fact that all of our clients have passed CPSRs when the audits were actually conducted.
Services have included:
- Conducting a “mock audit” of purchasing policies and practices to identify potential deficiencies and fixes
- Selecting a sample of transactions to identify strong and weak practices
- Establishing compliant purchasing practices including preparing necessary written policies and procedures
- Responding to CPSR findings by the government
UFC provides clear, fixed-fee pricing, offering clients value without unexpected fees. Our pricing structure is tailored to reflect the engagement scope, making it easier for clients to budget with confidence. We also offer specialized rates and discounts for veteran-owned businesses as part of our commitment to supporting the community.
GSA Schedule Acquisition Support
Starting at $21,000, our GSA Schedule consulting fees reflect UFC’s commitment to thorough and detailed service. Unlike firms that charge on an hourly basis, we focus on delivering results with no hidden fees, billing only when milestones are met.
Maintenance Support Options
For clients requiring ongoing support, UFC offers annual maintenance plans beginning at $1,850 per month. This includes continuous management, reporting assistance, and comprehensive support for the duration of GSA contracts. Hourly support is also available for specialized tasks, ensuring maximum flexibility to meet client needs.