Section 809 Panel - Recommendation #58 - Address the Issue of Over-age Contracts through (a) Establishing an End-to-end, Integrated, Streamlined Process, (b) Codifying the Defense Contract Management Agency’s (DCMA's) Quick Close Out Class Deviation in the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement, and (c) Extending DCMA's Low Risk Quick Close Out initiative by 2 Years

Abstract

The Defense Contract Management Agency (DCMA) currently has a large backlog of approximately 65,000 over-aged contracts, and this issue needs to be resolved to allow agencies to reach a workload steady state of closing out contracts. A cross-organization mitigation strategy with streamlined process improvements would preclude this situation from reoccurring and placing current funds at risk of use for cancelled bills.