We build and run the systems, workbooks, dashboards, and audit-ready records small-to-mid federal contractors rely on to satisfy FAR, DFARS, DCAA, and CAS — across the full contract lifecycle. You run the business on top of that foundation.
Four phases, one operating system. Every obligation has a named owner and a due date. No junior handoffs, no surprises.
Accounting system, workbooks, and policies — designed to FAR and DCAA spec from day one.
Written procedures and evidence files auditors can follow end-to-end — not a PDF that sits on a drive.
Human compliance review on every submission — judgment, not just a portal.
DCAA-ready packages the moment the request arrives, traceable back to the underlying evidence.
A working reference drawn from FAR Part 16, DCAAM 7641.90, and CAS Public Law 100-679 — the terrain every FAR contractor is operating on.
The pre-award gateway for cost-reimbursable awards. Segregates direct from indirect costs, identifies unallowables per FAR Part 31.
Daily recording, employee certification, supervisor approval. The single most-cited area in DCAA findings.
Documented allocation of overhead, fringe, and G&A pools. Logical, consistent, applied the same way every contract.
Required clauses passed down, oversight files maintained. The prime carries liability for sub non-compliance.
Required at $25M+ subcontract sales. DCMA-led review every three years.
Documented basis for proposal estimates. Required for major DoD contractors at $50M+.
Cost or incentive contracts at $20M+ (compliance), $50M+ (validation).
Required at $40M+ on qualifying contracts.
$7.5M+ Modified (4 standards) · $50M+ Full (all 19) + DS-1 disclosure.
NIST SP 800-171 controls for CUI. CMMC Level 2 certification for most DoD CUI contracts.
Tracking government-furnished property. Annual self-assessment and DCMA Property Management System Analysis.
Annual ICP within 6 months of FY-end for any flexibly priced contract.
Certified cost or pricing data on negotiated awards above $2M.
Determines whether your accounting system is acceptable for award. Required before any cost-reimbursable contract.
DCAA evaluates your estimate of project cost. Tied to proposal submission on negotiated awards.
Required submission within 6 months of FY-end for any flexibly priced contract held during the fiscal year.
Unannounced labor compliance check on contracts with reimbursable labor — typically T&M or cost-type.
Reviews whether certified cost or pricing data was accurate, complete, and current at the date of agreement.
Initiated when risk is indicated or systems were previously flagged. Covers accounting, estimating, purchasing, EVMS, MMAS.
Ho‘okele replaces point-in-time readiness checks with continuous compliance monitoring — constant visibility into the health of every contract, every obligation, every control. When a DCAA request arrives, every passing control is already live on your Metrics dashboard.
We meet contractors at every stage and carry the compliance record forward. The infrastructure that passes today's audit also supports your next contract.
SF-1408 posture, cost-proposal review, and preaward accounting-system evidence.
Mapping current state to FAR / DFARS / DCAA requirements, with a remediation plan.
SF-1408, NICRA, timekeeping, labor, and the written policies that hold them together.
Running the Incurred Cost Submission, reviewing drafts, flagging risk in real time.
CAS applicability, forward pricing, and contract modifications with documented rationale.
Continuous monitoring through closeout — evidence packaged so the file survives the auditor.
Built for small-to-mid federal contractors pursuing, executing, and defending prime and subcontract awards.
You get the workbook, the dashboard, and the documented procedure — operated, not sold as a PDF that sits on a drive.
Portals miss context — we sit behind the portal and catch what it can't, on every single submission.
Every obligation has an owner and a due date. Nothing lives in someone's head, and nothing quietly slips.
The infrastructure that passes today's audit also supports your next contract. The record compounds across awards.
No. Ho‘okele Compliance is an operator. We build and run the compliance infrastructure — the systems, workbooks, dashboards, and audit-ready records — not a binder of recommendations. When the DCAA request arrives, the evidence is already assembled.
Small-to-mid federal contractors across the full lifecycle: pre-award readiness, onboarding and gap assessment, system build (SF-1408, NICRA, policies), operations (ICS, review and flag), advanced matters (CAS, forward pricing, modifications), and continuous monitoring through closeout.
FAR / DFARS, DCAA (DCAAM 7641.90), SF-1408 Preaward Accounting System, Cost Accounting Standards (CAS), 2 CFR 200 Uniform Guidance, and agency supplements.
No — we sit alongside them. Your accountant keeps the books; your portal holds submissions. We own the compliance layer connecting the two, so the artifacts a DCAA auditor asks for are already traceable back to source.
A short consult to understand the contracts you're running, the awards you're pursuing, and the state of the record today. From there we scope a build — usually a pre-award readiness package or a system-build engagement — with named deliverables and owners.
Tell us about the contracts you're running or pursuing. We'll respond with a short read on where you sit against FAR, DFARS, and DCAA — and what a first engagement would cover.