GCS helps clients overcome resource and time constraints with comprehensive contract support services. We rapidly deliver high-quality, engaged experts that fit your required skill sets, organizational culture, and budget parameters – regardless of the length or scope of the engagement. Equally important, we equip our professionals with the training, tools and processes required for optimal performance.
Our highly responsive and tailored approach ensures we meet your objectives with high-value results that are clean, well-documented, timely, and compliant. GCS’ contract support services include:
- Contract/Subcontract Management
GCS helps clients manage both the buy side and sell side of the contracting process with a proactive, strategic and tactical approach designed to ensure clients’ seamless buying and acceptance of supplies and services. Our expertise encompasses establishing best-practice processes and work flows, engaging cross-functional stakeholders, defining requirements, mitigating risks, assessing expenditures, managing demand, and maximizing the enterprise supply chain.
- Contract Administration
GCS provides full life cycle federal contracts administration services including RFP development, cost estimating, pricing analysis, negotiations, terms and conditions interpretation, contract compliance, contract performance monitoring and contract modifications. We also provide subcontract administration, evaluation and management, teaming/NDA development, preparation of financial deliverables, and customer invoicing. For Performance Based Contracts, GCS assists in the preparation and administration of Quality Assurance Surveillance Plans (QASPs) to help ensure contract compliance.
- Compliance
GCS’ team takes pride in staying current with DCMA/DCAA trends in the areas of contract compliance. Whether you are facing a CPSR audit or other government related compliance issues, our subject matter experts bring extensive experience successfully guiding our clients through these complicated processes. With expertise encompassing the areas of finance, ethics, procurement, and more, GCS helps clients establish and maintain internal controls for contracting compliance across the enterprise. Using a standard suite of tools that are customized to meet specific agency requirements, our services span policy and procedure review, mock CPSR audits, development of recommendations, remediation execution, and training. In short, we help clients implement turnkey self-governance programs to ensure compliance with Federal Acquisition Regulations and procedures.
- Reporting & Transparency Assurance
From strategic planning through contract close out, GCS helps clients adhere to accurate and timely transparency policies and processes. This ensures a sound foundation for accountability and protection against mismanagement as well as builds public confidence. Our contracting experts assist contractors in navigating the reporting complexities related to deliverables, milestones, various funding sources, and more. This approach enables our clients to confidently and successfully navigate the complex world of government contracting and all the inherent risks.
- Cost/Price Analysis
GCS professionals develop cost/pricing strategies and models for all contract types, services, agreements, and GSA Schedules. We help clients build a standardized, defensible pricing methodology. We are proficient at developing a fair and reasonable cost or price position that can be supported during negotiations.
- Contract Close-Out
The GCS team is experienced in performing research, reconciliation, and financial functions in support of contract close-outs to ensure full compliance with federal regulations. This includes helping contractors in achieving acceptable resolutions, invoicing and final closeout. Equally important, using a proven methodology and standard suite of tools, we help government clients avoid the many pitfalls and delays inherent in the close-out of complex contracts.
- FOIA Support
GCS is intimately familiar with the Privacy Act and the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) exemption statute and, as participants in the Department of Justice’s FOIA training, certifications, and standards programs, offer sound judgment on related guidelines and directives. Whether their FOIA requests total dozens or thousands per year, clients rely on our FOIA experts to manage and execute the full process, which we document in full accordance with best practices. Our skilled specialists find and review the document in question, check it against the Privacy Act and exemptions using our proven templates, effectively engage and communicate with the document “owner,” correspond with the requestor, make sound judgment calls and recommendations to the FOIA officer, and redact and prepare documents for release. With our expertise, GCS’ clients improve FOIA compliance and transparency more effectively and quickly.
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