Solution / Government contractors
GovCon accounting controls with the evidence left on.
Accumulate cost by contract, task order, CLIN, WBS, and final cost objective while keeping time, labor distribution, indirect rates, funding, billing, and review evidence connected.
A government-contract accounting system must do more than tag projects: it must preserve direct and indirect cost classification, time and labor distribution, cost-objective accumulation, rate calculations, unallowable-cost treatment, funding controls, billing reconciliation, and attributable evidence.
GovCon control record
Control evidence belongs beside the outcome.
- Cost objectives
- Contract, task order, CLIN, WBS, project, organization, and final cost objective
- Rate evidence
- Indirect pools, allocation bases, provisional, billing, actual, and variance records
- Time lineage
- Employee, date, charge code, change history, approval, payroll, labor distribution, and ledger effect
- Readiness boundary
- Software evidence supports review; DCAA or agency conclusions remain external determinations
What changes
Move the team from reconstruction to controlled review.
Accumulate cost where the contract requires
Keep direct cost, indirect pools, WBS, CLIN, funding, ceiling, and billing context visible without forking the ledger.
Trace labor from time to the books
Tie timekeeping, approvals, payroll, labor distribution, indirect allocation, and the general ledger into one reviewable chain.
Prepare evidence before the request
Preserve policy versions, actor history, calculation inputs, reconciliations, and immutable snapshots as work occurs.
Operating sequence
One financial chain, explicit at every handoff.
- 01
Load the contract control context
Establish contract, CLIN, WBS, funding, rate, cost, timekeeping, and billing policies for the customer and period.
- 02
Validate each cost event
Required cost objectives, allowable treatment, time authority, and source evidence are checked before financial effect.
- 03
Calculate and approve rates
Pools, bases, versions, calculation evidence, materiality, and approval stay attached to rate application and true-up.
- 04
Reconcile billing and cost
Current and cumulative billing compare with contract cost accounts, funding, revenue, receivables, and independent source evidence.
Questions buyers ask
Clear boundaries before implementation.
Is Invarent DCAA approved?
No software product should claim blanket DCAA approval. Invarent provides GovCon-oriented accounting and evidence controls; a cognizant government authority or qualified independent advisor must evaluate the contractor's configured system and actual operation.
Does the platform support SF 1408 or pre-award readiness?
The data model and control surfaces support evidence relevant to common pre-award accounting-system criteria. A formal readiness assessment still requires the contractor's real procedures, contracts, people, configuration, operation, and an independent reviewer.
Can unallowable costs be separately identified?
Yes. Effective-dated policy can classify, route, report, and exclude unallowable costs from claims while retaining source and reviewer evidence. Contract-specific clauses and professional interpretation remain customer responsibilities.
How are indirect rates handled?
Invarent models pools, allocation bases, rate versions, provisional, billing, and actual rates, application evidence, variance, and true-up records. Approval and certified calculation context remain explicit.
Build the evidence while the contract runs.
Start with the sandbox
Connect time, cost, rate, funding, billing, and accounting state through one controlled financial record—then place real configuration and operation before the appropriate independent reviewer.