SCA Compliance in Real Business Government Contractor Environments

According to Gartner, the Federal government views cloud as a long-term pathway to strategic IT modernization, whereas state and local governments tend to pursue the immediate tactical benefits of innovation and cost savings. Cloud hybridization has resulted in a more complex cost model, and state agencies are looking at ways to utilize machine intelligence to govern costs, manage usage, and stay within budget. This multi-cloud approach also requires tight control of compliance and security vulnerabilities.

As state and local government processes have grown increasingly complex over the past several years, the public sector has seen a widening efficiency gap. Organizations keep acquiring new solutions to streamline workflows, but the machinery of government just gets more and more complicated. Technologies aimed at improving operations just add new layers of complexity and frustration.

When pricing US Government contracts based on cost, a contractor must identify and segregate unallowable costs, regardless of the contract type. When billing flexibly-priced contracts, unallowable costs must be excluded from all claimed cost – both direct and indirect costs. FAR Part 31, Contract cost principles and procedures proscribe the requirements for cost allowability. In this course, you will gain an understanding of FAR Part 31 applicability, record keeping requirements; and, key points associated with the each of the contract cost principles.

Mid-sized local governments see security as their top priority for modernizing their infrastructure in the next one to two years, and disaster recovery (DR) is one of their biggest drivers for moving to the cloud. These are just a few takeaways from a recent Center for Digital Government survey looking at how local government leaders are moving forward with modernization and the challenges they face.