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
