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An MSOH pool is often the fix when a G&A rate above roughly 25% draws the same reaction from customers and auditors alike: a request to justify what that "management and administration fee" is actually buying. Sometimes the answer is genuinely high G&A costs. Often the real answer is [...]

Splitting overhead is one of the most common structural changes contractors consider when operations get complex enough that a single rate no longer makes sense. Overhead covers more ground than any other indirect pool: facilities, equipment, supervisory labor, supplies, training. That range is exactly what makes a single overhead [...]

Splitting fringe into more than one pool is one of the first structural changes GovCon contractors consider, and one of the easiest to get wrong. Fringe is usually the easiest indirect rate to explain, and the first one people assume they understand: employer taxes, health insurance, retirement, and paid [...]

A single indirect rate structure - one Fringe, one Overhead, one G&A - is the simplest way to run your books. It’s also the default most small government contractors start with, and for a young or homogeneous business, it’s often the right call. But as a company adds service [...]