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Incurred Cost Submission An incurred cost submission demonstrates that flexibly priced contracts with the Department of Defense and, often, other U.S. Government agencies are not over-billed. Contracts (encompassing prime contracts, subcontracts, and grants) that are flexibly priced include all cost-type, Fixed Price Incentive Fee, and Time and Material (T&M) awards. Because changes from the proposed cost occur during contract performance, actual incurred cost (AIC) is submitted, for the organization as a whole, on a multi-schedule proposal. The certified proposal is submitted after the end of the contractor?s fiscal year, when AIC is known. The preferred method of submission is electronic. This proposal is audited by the Defense Contract Audit Agency (DCAA). DCAA compares the incurred cost submission to supporting documentation, including:
Possibly the most important audit focus of an incurred cost submission is consistency in recording costs incurred for the same purpose. For example, if postage and shipping is recorded and invoiced as Other Direct Cost on one contract, all postage and shipping related to every job or contract must also be recorded and invoiced as Other Direct Cost. Postage and shipping may not be recorded in a General and Administrative (G&A) account, in like circumstances, on other contracts. Logically, doing so would result in the direct-charged contract being invoiced 100% of its postage and shipping plus a portion (through application of the G&A rate) of postage and shipping on other contracts. |
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