​José Soto​

José Soto​ has nearly 25 years of experience regarding government contracts. He has been engaged as an expert on over 40 occasions.

José acts as a subject matter expert providing complex advisory services regarding the interpretation of US Government Rules and Regulations to include the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR), its supplements such as the Defense Federal Acquisition Supplement (DFARS) and Cost Accounting Standards (CAS), among others. He has participated in transaction support activities including due diligence, mergers, acquisitions, re-organizations and carve outs from both the sell side and the buy side.

José worked as a senior auditor for the Defense Contract Audit Agency and for a number of top 100 contractors for the Federal Government before moving into consulting. He has reviewed maturity level policies and procedures and developed process improvement plans. He has assisted clients with future state indirect rates optimization and redesign and developing go-to-market pricing strategies to decrease risk, increase cost recovery and margins while maintaining or increasing compliance.

José’s compliance expertise ranges from business system readiness reviews to the development and implementation of corrective action plans to achieve compliance in response to Government audits and reviews related to non-compliances, and audit findings to ensure business systems approvals. He also assists in the preparation, submission and support of Gross Dollar Magnitude (GDM) or Detailed Cost Impacts (DCI) for use in negotiations resulting from Cost Accounting Practice (CAP) changes.

José is a member of the Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics and the National Contract Management Association. He regularly participates in speaking forums regarding government compliance issues.