CSDR Express

You do not need to build CSDR expertise internally to meet a reporting requirement. CSDR Express provides experienced, end-to-end CSDR support, helping your team understand the requirements, organize the necessary data, and prepare compliant deliverables while your staff stays focused on the program.

Not necessarily. CSDR Express gives you access to our established expertise, processes, and technology without having to develop that capability from the ground up.

This is a common challenge. CSDR requires contractor data to be organized according to defined structures that may not align directly with existing systems. We can bridge that gap, working with your existing program to support the required reporting.

It can, particularly for organizations encountering the requirements for the first time. CSDR Express is designed to reduce that burden by providing specialized support around the reporting process, allowing your finance, contracts, program, and engineering teams to contribute what is needed without having to become CSDR experts themselves.

It does. Neither contract type, award procedure, nor contract vehicle (including OTA) creates a deviation from CSDR reporting requirements — the statute and DoDI 5000.73 apply the same thresholds regardless.

CAS status doesn't create an exemption. The DCARC's FlexFile (Cost and Hours Report) deliverable was built specifically to accommodate non-CAS accounting systems — we help you map your existing accounting output to the FlexFile format.

Wherever you are in the CSDR process, our team can help. We work with your existing systems and program data to resolve reporting challenges, prepare required deliverables, support submission, and keep your CSDR efforts on track.

No. EVM and CSDR waiver authorities are separate, administered by different offices for different purposes. An EVM waiver has no bearing on your CSDR reporting obligation.

They won't have to share it with you. Qualifying subs report as Direct Reporting Subcontractors, submitting straight to the CADE database — never through the prime. We can support your subs' submissions independently of yours, with no cross-visibility in either direction. CSDR data itself is marked contractor-proprietary, handled as Controlled Unclassified Information, and is not releasable under FOIA.

Greater cost transparency can create legitimate concerns about proprietary and competitively sensitive information between subcontractors and primes. We can serve as an independent third party for CSDR reporting, helping manage sensitive cost data between primes and subcontractors without compromising confidentiality.

Yes. As DoW increases its focus on supplier cost and pricing transparency, contractors that can’t confidently support CSDR requirements may be at a disadvantage. We can give you immediate access to an established CSDR capability, without the time and cost of building one internally.

Every CSDR Plan is tailored to the contractor's accounting system and technical approach, regardless of company size or CSDR experience. That tailoring happens at the CSDR Readiness Review (formerly the Post-Award Conference) — we manage that process on your behalf.