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We've Come to the End of the Road: FY 2018 Report to Congress Says DCAA Backlog is No More

Client Alert | less than 1 min read | 07.11.19

The Defense Contract Audit Agency (DCAA) recently made public its Fiscal Year (FY) 2018 Report to Congress (“Report”), which, among other things, reports that DCAA has eliminated its incurred cost audit backlog.

The Report also describes its industry outreach activities and DCAA’s plans to focus more attention on other audits, such as business systems, Truth in Negotiations Act, Cost Accounting standards, pre-award surveys, claims, and terminations. Those plans are discussed more fully in our blog post.  

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Client Alert | 2 min read | 12.19.25

GAO Cautions Agencies—Over-Redact at Your Own Peril

Bid protest practitioners in recent years have witnessed agencies’ increasing efforts to limit the production of documents and information in response to Government Accountability Office (GAO) bid protests—often will little pushback from GAO. This practice has underscored the notable difference in the scope of bid protest records before GAO versus the Court of Federal Claims. However, in Tiger Natural Gas, Inc., B-423744, Dec. 10, 2025, 2025 CPD ¶ __, GAO made clear that there are limits to the scope of redactions, and GAO will sustain a protest where there is insufficient evidence that the agency’s actions were reasonable....