Noah Leiden is a principal with Baker Tilly’s government contractor advisory services practice. He has been with Baker Tilly since 2010. Noah has worked in government contracting consulting since 1991 serving healthcare, professional services, information and communications, manufacturing, engineering, higher education, and not-for-profit organizations. Noah has extensive experience providing a range of government contract accounting, pricing, business systems and internal controls oversight, and regulatory and contract compliance to his clients. Noah has supported the Department of Defense (DoD) as an auditor for the Defense Contract Audit Agency, and contractors operating within the DoD, Department of Health and Human Services and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services environment.
- Designs federal contractors’ business systems and internal controls to comply with DFARS business system rules and performs internal reviews as well as remediation in preparation for, and in response to, federal audits.
- Assists federal contractors in designing and developing accounting and indirect cost methodologies based upon organizational structure, industry, market plans and federal regulations and guidance and developing and revising related Disclosure Statements.
- Assists federal contractors with the preparation and review of business proposals for federal and state agencies in accordance with the Request for Proposals’ statements of work and submission instructions.
- Supports clients in avoiding and resolving disputes involving complex cost accounting, contract pricing, and regulatory compliance matters arising under the Federal Acquisition Regulation and related Supplements, Cost Accounting Standards, the Truth in Negotiations Act, OMB Circulars, contract terms and conditions and other accounting-related rules and regulations.
- Assists federal contractors in preparing and supporting General Dollar Magnitude and Detailed Cost Impact proposals and audits for changes in cost accounting practice and noncompliant practices.
- Assists federal contractors in preparing, reviewing and supporting annual incurred cost submissions and related federal government audits as well as developing sampling methodologies for the identification and removal of unallowable costs from incurred cost submissions.
- American Bar Association, associate member (public contract section)
- American Institute of Certified Public Accountants
- Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)
- Maryland Association of Certified Public Accountants
- National Contract Management Association
- National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA)
- Professional Services Council
- Instructed “Subcontract Management” for GWSCPA 7th Annual Government Contract Accounting and Compliance Developments Conference (June 2011)
- Instructed “Surviving a CPSR Audit” for NCMA Tysons Corner Chapter Intermediate Contracting Series I (March 2013)
- Instructed “Compensation, The Difference Between Reasonableness and Executive Caps” for GWSCPA 9th Annual Government Contract Accounting and Compliance Developments Conference (June 2013)
- Instructed “DFARS Contractor Business System Requirements: Application, Operation and Administration” for NCMA Tysons Corner Chapter Intermediate Contracting Series I (March 2014)
- Instructed “Connecting the Dots: DCAA Initiatives, Unallowable Costs and Forward Pricing” for GWSCPA 10th Annual Government Contract Accounting and Compliance Developments Conference (June 2014)
- Instructed “Business Proposal Preparation: Collaboration and Support is Key” for NCMA World Congress 2014 (July 2014)
- Instructed “Best Practices: Mastering the Basic Blocking and Tackling of Rate Restructuring” for Deltek Insight (November 2015)
- Moderated ABA’s May 2015 Public Contract Law Health Care Contracting Committee focusing on compliance from a health care contracting perspective.
- Instructed “Mitigating Risks: A Primer on Understanding Government Contracting Compliance” for 2016 CMS Quality Conference (December 2016)
- Instructed “Accounting Business Systems” for NCMA Tysons Corner Chapter Contract Lifecycle Series, February 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020
- Regular instructor for federal publications seminars and webinars:
- • “Due Diligence of Business Systems Implementation”, ongoing
- • “Cost Accounting Standards Administration”, ongoing
- • “A Practical Guide to DCAA Accounting System Audits”, October 2019
- • “DCAA ICP Audits: What to Expect Before, During, and After Your Incurred Cost Proposal Audit”, November 2019)
- • “DCAA Forward Pricing Rate Audits”, October 2019
- Regular Guest Instructor for the American Health Quality Association
- Published “A Different Perspective of Compliance” for Health Care Compliance Association, Compliance Today Magazine, May 2018
- Drafted “Addressing Contract Closeout Challenges” for the Professional Services Council’s submission to the Defense Contract Management Agency, March 2020
- “Three (of Six) Business Systems Audits Attached to DCAA Compliance” for Deltek, instructor, November 2019
