The intent of the consolidation was to eliminate duplicative overhead and payroll costs associated with maintaining independent contract administration offices, while upgrading the quality of contract administrative services and workforce within the department.
A DCAA liaison office is established at a DoD procurement or contract administration office to provide effective communication and coordination among procurement, contract administration, and contract audit elements.
When the contractor is unable to submit or DoD is unable to receive the payment request electronically, the contractor is required to submit the payment request using a method mutually agreed to by the contractor, the Contracting Officer, the contract administration office, and the payment office.
A contracting officer would be permitted to authorize the contractor to use another electronic form, if the payment office and the contract administration office agree.
Proposed Rule--DFARS Transformation Quality Assurance (DFARS Case 2003-D027) Updates and clarifies requirements for government contract quality assurance and use of warranties; deletes unnecessary definitions and unnecessary text on technical requirements matters, responsibilities of contract administration offices, and material inspection and receiving reports; and relocates to PGI, procedures for preparation of quality assurance instructions, procedures for use of quality inspection approval stamps, and information on types of quality evaluation data.
Proposed Rule--DFARS Transformation Quality Assurance (DFARS Case 2003-D027) Updates and clarifies requirements for Government contract quality assurance and use of warranties; deletes unnecessary definitions and unnecessary text on technical requirements matters, responsibilities of contract administration offices, and material inspection and receiving reports; and relocates to PGI, procedures for preparation of quality assurance instructions, procedures for use of quality inspection approval stamps, and information on types of quality evaluation data.
PRODUCTION SURVEILLANCE AND REPORTING (DFARS CASE 2002-D015) Eliminates requirements for a contract administration office to perform production surveillance on contractors that have only Criticality Designator C (low-urgency) contracts, and for monitoring of progress on any Criticality Designator C contract, unless production surveillance or contracting monitoring is specifically requested by the contracting officer.
