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Government Contract Invoice Records
Connect invoice versions, supporting work, approvals and payments without assuming that a billed amount establishes either performance or loss.
By Joseph De Gregorio · Federal Sentencing Strategist
Founder and President, Sentencing Advocacy Group · November 6, 2026
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Preserve invoice versions
Identify the contractor, contract, period, invoice number and preparer. Keep revisions, credits and supporting attachments. Distinguish submitted invoices from internal drafts and duplicate exports from separate billings.
Connect supporting work
Index time records, deliverables, expense sources and acceptance records that relate to each invoice. Identify missing support. Specialists and counsel assess whether requirements were met; SAG does not certify performance or offer an audit opinion.
Trace approvals and payment
Record documented review, submission and payment separately. Identify the person’s actual role at each stage. Approval authority, a system login and a completed action are different facts; avoid attributing every event to one participant without evidence.
Keep disputed calculations visible
A billed amount, paid amount and legally relevant loss may differ. Preserve source schedules and the basis of proposed adjustments. Counsel and financial professionals resolve calculation questions; the preparation file should make the competing figures easy to inspect.
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Sources and professional scope
Official starting points: DOJ Procurement Collusion Strike Force and DOJ procurement-collusion indicators. Counsel evaluates current authorities, the applicable guideline version and the individual facts. These resources do not decide the outcome of a particular case. Sources checked November 6, 2026.
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