KClark

Thank you for the reply! I will do some searching. We had a very informative meeting with our ACO and team at DCMA this week which helped clear up some "urban legends" in our particular market and the PCOs we work with. Sure do appreciate all the expertise here as well!

Would anyone have similar recommendations for industry? I'm a contracts manager for a services firm and learning the whys and wherefores of who's responsible for what has been a conundrum of late. Thanks!

Having recently passed an initial CPSR I can confirm that indirect procurements are NOT part of the CPSR universe. As a small business it is important to track your direct and indirect procurements separately; however that doesn't mean you have to use two different systems. You can include your indirects in your Deltek system, use a coding convention that differentiates the two so that you can easily generate reports and extract the information you need. Hope this is helpful.

I am in the throes of wrestling with this precise conundrum - complying with our prime's request to provide detailed backup documentation regarding travel expenses billed with our invoices, while protecting our proprietary indirect rate data. In some cases it seems our primes are asking for the detail just so they can do some reverse-math and determine our indirect rates, which may give them a competitive leg-up on future bids. I will continue to follow this thread. Thanks for the insights!