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Agency Pricing Strategy

DCMA delivers field pricing, technical pricing, and commercial item support through four specialized divisions — ensuring DoD customers receive consistent, expert pricing assistance at every contractor location.

Cognizant Federal Agency Official & field pricing support Specialized pricing support

Field pricing support

CACO/DACO Division

  • Cost Accounting Standards determinations of adequacy/compliance & recovery of unilateral cost impacts
  • Direct and indirect cost monitoring & reduction/containment initiatives
  • FPRA/FPRR dedicated expertise to focus on indirect expenses
  • Final indirect cost rate negotiation/settlement
  • Business system oversight
  • Business base analysis

Specialized pricing support

Commercial Item Group

  • DoD cadre of experts on commercial acquisitions
  • Issue Commercial Item Determinations
  • Specialized market research and expertise in existing and emerging commercial markets
  • Experts in performing price analysis absent cost data
  • Support Contracting Officers throughout negotiations

Field pricing support

Pricing Division

  • Overhead Should Cost Reviews
  • Cost Estimating Factor Reviews
  • Dedicated contractor-specific pricing expertise
  • Integrated pricing and technical teams at major contractor locations
  • Teams intensively engaged with and knowledgeable of contractor business systems
  • Coordination, execution, and consolidation of supply chain proposal pricing

Specialized pricing support

Specialty Pricing Group

  • Pension and Insurance expertise, including technical support
  • Perform pre- and post-award Financial Capability Reviews
  • Dedicated expertise in Defective Pricing
  • Dispositioning Defective Pricing Cases
  • Provide expertise and support analysis in all areas of Cost Accounting Standards

Benefits to DoD customers

Proposal Pricing

Intensive business and technical pricing support at major contractor locations.

CBAR

Real-time business information for contractors' forward pricing rates, business system requirements, and cost accounting standard issues.

CACO/DACO Alignment

Building consistency in overhead and business system decisions at all contractor locations.

Training

More capable DCMA pricing workforce through targeted professional development.

Better pricing support for you!