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- Audit ReadinessDCAA audit programs, the Contract Audit Manual and selected costs under FAR 31.205.
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Know the auditbefore it starts.
GovConDash reads your registration and awards and shows the DCAA audit programs that apply to you, with the verbatim steps an auditor will execute. Beside them sit the Contract Audit Manual, the Selected Areas of Cost Guidebook and every FAR 31.205 cost principle with how it was litigated.
Read DCAA in its own words, prepare the documents it will ask for, and when a finding arrives, answer it with the DCAA Audit Response Builder in the Workflows Hub.
Audit programs, steps and figures are real, as GovConDash held them on November 3, 2026. The company profile is shown for a fictional contractor.
Verbatim DCAA audit steps
ACROSS 73 AUDIT PROGRAMS
Contract Audit Manual paragraphs
DCAAM 7640.1
FAR 31.205 cost principles
PROFILED IN THE MATRIX
ASBCA decisions
2010 TO 2026
Five views of the audit in front of you
Overview
Your contractor profile, the contract administration office and DCAA office with cognizance, and the DCAA audit programs that apply to your company, each with the reason it applies.
Selected Areas of Cost
DCAA's Selected Areas of Cost Guidebook by chapter, and beside it the FAR 31.205 matrix: every cost principle with its guidebook chapters, unallowable rows and precedent.
Contract Audit Manual
The CAM read paragraph by paragraph from the chapter revision that carries it. Every CAM citation anywhere in GovConDash opens here, on the paragraph it cites.
Audit Program Explorer
DCAA's audit programs by activity code, section by section, with the verbatim steps an auditor executes and the regulations each step cites.
Research Agent
Ask an audit question and get an answer cited to the audit programs, the CAM, the guidebook, the FAR and the Board, with every source numbered.
The audits that apply to you, and why
A named signal in your own data points at the program's subject, and the reason chip quotes it: a cost-type award points at the incurred cost audit, for example. It never promises an audit will occur.
A threshold or a portfolio trait puts the program in scope to assess. Exemptions the data cannot see, such as commercial items, sealed bid or small business status, decide actual applicability, and the row says so.
The program families that apply when something happens, such as a termination, a claim or a disclosure statement revision. They make no claim about your company.
The steps, verbatim
Open a program to its sections and read each step exactly as DCAA wrote it, so you can prepare what the auditor will test before the entrance conference.
Your audit cognizance
The contract administration office and the DCAA office for your location, read from your record, with the DCAA office locator to confirm it.
Authority behind each program
The FAR, DFARS and CAS sections each program rests on, linked to the eCFR, so a requirement is never a paraphrase.
Every cost principle, as DCAA reads it
The guidebook chapters
The Selected Areas of Cost chapters whose subject is the principle, and the chapters that only cite it.
Expressly unallowable
DCAA's own rows for the principle from CAM Figure A-1-1, verbatim, with DCAA's note where it gives one. These are the costs that carry the FAR 42.709 penalty.
The audit steps that cite it
The DCAA audit programs whose steps cite the principle, so you see where in an audit the cost will be tested.
How it was litigated
The ASBCA decisions that cite the principle with their outcomes, and the Federal Circuit, Court of Federal Claims and CBCA decisions beside them.
Source: DCAA Contract Audit Manual and FAR Subpart 31.2. Decision counts are links over GovConDash's own corpora, not a published statistic.
From a finding to a response: the DCAA Audit Response Builder
The audit report and its findings are an illustration for a fictional contractor. The regulations, DCAA guidance, compensation cap and penalty arithmetic are real, as GovConDash returned them on November 3, 2026.
Reads the auditor's own words
Upload the draft or final audit report, the Form 1 or the questioned-cost schedule. A deterministic pre-pass lifts the assignment number, the cited sections and the amounts before the model reads a word.
Retrieves the governing rule
The FAR 31.205 cost principle and any Cost Accounting Standard at issue, read as of the contract date where the text changed, and the compensation cap figure from OFPP's tables.
Answers DCAA in DCAA's terms
The audit program the assignment names and its verbatim steps, the Contract Audit Manual and guidebook paragraphs on the cost, and the MRD memos where they apply.
Finds how it was decided
The Board decisions that cite the same section, then the Federal Circuit, whose precedential decisions bind the Board, and the Court of Federal Claims, each cited with its weight.
Sets a position per finding
Concede, rebut or negotiate for each finding, a cost questioned as unreasonable kept apart from one that is expressly unallowable, and the penalty exposure computed by arithmetic, not by the model.
Drafts the response and what comes next
The response memo with every source numbered, then the next-step documents: a rebuttal matrix, an evidence package checklist, an audit response letter, a penalty waiver request or a response to a Form 1.
More audit workflows
DCAA Audit Response Builder
Draft a grounded response to a DCAA audit finding or questioned cost, with a concede, rebut, or negotiate position on each finding, citing the FAR Part 31 cost principle, the CAS text, and how the Board has ruled on the same audit issue.
Policy Gap Assessment
Upload your written policies and procedures and get a gap matrix against the criteria the regulations enumerate and the steps a DCAA auditor executes, with a verbatim policy quote behind every rating, which policy areas apply decided from your USAspending award record and SAM.gov registration, the stale references and duplicates flagged, and a remediation roadmap ordered by a printed risk rule.
Audit Readiness Assessment
Assess your audit readiness against the verbatim steps a DCAA auditor will execute, grounded in the DCAA audit programs, the Contract Audit Manual, and FAR/DFARS criteria.
Cost Allowability Memo
Draft a FAR Part 31 allowability memo for a specific cost, based on the cost principles and CAS standards (eCFR) and ASBCA decisions.
Beside your audit readiness
Incurred Cost Proposal
Build Schedules A to O, model your indirect rates and roll each fiscal year forward into the next.
DCAA Pre-Award Survey
Prepare your accounting system for the pre-award survey, criterion by criterion.
Regulations and Policy
The FAR, DFARS and CAS with a research agent that cites every section it uses.
ASBCA Decisions
Search the Armed Services Board of Contract Appeals and see how the Board has ruled on the cost an auditor questions.
GAO Bid Protests
Government-wide GAO bid protest decisions, with sustain rates by protest ground and agency.
CMMC
The CMMC program, its assessment levels, the C3PAO directory and the enforcement record.
Audit readiness,
answered.
How GovConDash finds the DCAA audits that apply to you, where its guidance comes from, and what the DCAA Audit Response Builder drafts.
It reads your SAM.gov registration and your award history from USAspending.gov and maps them to the DCAA audit programs the platform holds. A program is triggered when a named signal in your own data points at it, screened when a threshold or a portfolio trait puts it in scope to assess, and listed as event driven when it applies only after something happens. Every row states its reason, and none of them promises that an audit will occur.
From DCAA's own publications: its audit programs, the Contract Audit Manual (DCAAM 7640.1), the Selected Areas of Cost Guidebook and the MRD audit guidance memos. GovConDash keeps their wording verbatim and names the revision each paragraph came from, so an answer can quote DCAA rather than paraphrase it.
For each cost principle, the guidebook chapters about it, DCAA's expressly unallowable rows for it from CAM Figure A-1-1 with DCAA's notes, the audit programs whose steps cite it, and the ASBCA, Federal Circuit, Court of Federal Claims and CBCA decisions linked to it with their outcomes. The counts are links over the platform's own corpora, not a published statistic.
A response memo that takes a concede, rebut or negotiate position on each finding, cites the FAR Part 31 cost principle and any CAS at issue, quotes DCAA's own guidance and shows how the Board and the courts have ruled on the same issue, with the penalty exposure under FAR 42.709-1. From its recommended next steps it drafts the follow-on documents, such as a rebuttal matrix in Excel or an audit response letter in Word.
No. It is a grounded draft for your team and your counsel to review: every authority it cites comes from the regulations, DCAA's publications and the decisions the run retrieved, and it says where to verify each against the official source. It does not bind DCAA or the contracting officer.
A free account views every Audit Readiness page, including the Overview of the programs that apply to it. Pro and Max open the chapters, programs and principles, search them, ask the Research Agent and run the DCAA Audit Response Builder and the other workflows. Monthly Pro starts with a 14-day free trial.
