Deltek costpoint historical reporting for post-Fusion or post-licence-cancellation contractors. Job Summary, ICE submission, indirect-rate cert, Cobra CPR/IPMR, per-CLIN billed-to-date, floor check evidence — reproducible from the archive in seconds. No live Costpoint required.
The historical lookups federal contractors actually run — DCAA audit response, contract closeout, source-selection past-performance — don't require a live Costpoint stack. They require fast, accurate, point-in-time evidence retrieval.
Federal contractors carry the longest evidence-retention obligations of any industry. DCAA incurred-cost-submission audits routinely look back 7+ years for indirect-rate certifications, floor check records, executive comp cap tests and ICE submission packages. Contract closeouts can request workpaper detail decades old. Source-selection past-performance write-ups for new bids reach back to closed contracts for Cobra EVMS series and CPR/IPMR submissions. T&M billing disputes can surface years after the project closes. The natural reaction is to keep Costpoint running read-only 'just in case' — but the licence, infrastructure and admin overhead of a live Costpoint stack is six figures annually, and the operational risk of carrying a deprecated environment for a decade is real.
Deltek costpoint historical reporting replaces the live tenant with a query-ready archive. Every transaction, every master record, every approved rate cert is captured at every point-in-time. The OpenSearch + Parquet query layer returns answers in under 2 seconds even for 10+ fiscal years of pool calculation history. Saved Cognos and BIRT report definitions are preserved so visual reproduction for DCAA evidence is supported. The archive runs on FedRAMP-aligned cloud infrastructure with CMMC Level 2 controls available — so CUI handling and DFARS 252.204-7012 obligations are met out of the box.
Whether you are post-migration to Oracle Fusion, post-licence-cancellation for a wound-down subsidiary, or simply trying to retire a Costpoint instance that stood up for a single closed LPTA contract, deltek costpoint historical reporting gives the controller, DCAA liaison, contract administrators and BD team the historical lookups they actually need — without paying for a Costpoint environment they no longer operate against.
Every DCAA-evidence and govt-contracting report federal contractors actually need from archived Costpoint data.
Pool calculation workpapers per fiscal year per pool, approved provisional rate certs, forward-pricing rate cert history, ICE submission packages — reproducible point-in-time for DCAA incurred-cost-submission audit.
Job Summary Reports, Project Status Reports, Funding Status Reports, Backlog Reports, EAC/ETC history, allowable cost detail — reproducible at any historical period for closeout or dispute resolution.
Per-CLIN billed-to-date, T&M billing detail by PLC, retainage tracking, WAWF iRAPT submission history, DCMA payment status — reproducible for customer dispute or closeout.
Cobra (CER) CPR/IPMR submissions, SPI/CPI trend history, variance explanations, control account budgets — reproducible for source-selection past-performance write-up.
Floor check records, executive comp cap tests, CAS Disclosure Statement cross-references, DCAA business-system controls evidence — reproducible for any contracting-officer inquiry.
GL trial balance per period, AP aging, AR aging, 1099 detail, multi-state tax allocations — reproducible for prior-year tie-out or financial-audit response.
From archive extract to self-serve report delivery. Typical stand-up: 4–8 weeks after the archive is in place.
Inventory of every Costpoint Cognos and BIRT report in production use, classified by audit weight (DCAA evidence, contract closeout, management lookback, ad-hoc analytics). Output: report rebuild priority list with DCAA-evidence reports at top.
Archive Parquet built per fiscal year per project per pool, OpenSearch index populated for fast text + dimensional search, saved Cognos report definitions ingested as metadata.
DCAA-evidence reports (indirect-rate cert, ICE submission, floor check, exec comp cap) rebuilt in the historical reporting UI with point-in-time fidelity. Output validated against original Costpoint Cognos reports to the cent.
Web UI deployed with SSO (Okta, Azure AD, Google, CAC/PIV smart card). Role-based access mapping controller, DCAA liaison, contract administrators, BD team to appropriate report classes. Saved-search subscriptions configured for recurring reports.
Controller, DCAA liaison and contract administrators run historical lookups against the new capability in parallel with live Costpoint (where still available) to validate parity. Sign-off pack issued. Costpoint Cognos infrastructure can be decommissioned.
The actual humans who need historical Costpoint reports — and the saved searches that deliver them on a cron schedule.
Indirect-rate cert lookback per fiscal year, ICE submission package reproduction, floor check evidence retrieval, exec comp cap test reconstruction — for any contracting-officer audit request.
Monthly indirect-rate tie-out lookback, prior-year comparatives for management review, GL trial balance reproduction per fiscal period, multi-state tax allocation reconstruction.
Per-CLIN billed-to-date for closeout, funding-modification chain for audit defense, NTE ceiling verification, T&M billing detail by PLC for customer dispute resolution.
Cobra CPR/IPMR submission lookback for source-selection past-performance, SPI/CPI trend history for management trending, variance explanation retrieval for closeout.
Project invoice retrieval for customer disputes years after the original transaction. WAWF iRAPT submission lookback for DCMA dispute resolution.
Closed-contract Cobra EVMS series, CPR/IPMR submission lookback, on-time / under-budget metric retrieval — for past-performance write-ups in new bids.
Deltek costpoint historical reporting is the practice of running self-serve historical lookups, audit-ready reports and DCAA-grade reconciliations against archived Costpoint data after migration to Oracle Fusion (or after Costpoint licence cancellation) without keeping the live Costpoint environment running. It matters because federal contractors face audit and lookback obligations that stretch far beyond active operational use: DCAA incurred-cost-submission audits typically look back 7+ years, contract closeouts can request workpaper detail decades old, source-selection past-performance write-ups need Cobra EVMS series and CPR/IPMR submissions from prior contracts, and customer disputes over T&M billing can surface years after the project closes. Live Costpoint can deliver those reports — but at the cost of a running licence and a running infrastructure stack that's no longer in operational use.
Costpoint Cognos and BIRT reports run against a live Costpoint database — meaning you need the Costpoint application server stack, the Costpoint database, the Cognos report server and the supporting infrastructure all running just to answer 'what was Pay App #14 on Task Order 0007 in March 2020?'. Deltek costpoint historical reporting runs against the Syntra archive: same query intent, same audit-defensible answer, no live Costpoint required. The archive's OpenSearch + Parquet query layer typically returns answers in under 2 seconds even for multi-billion-row archives spanning 10+ fiscal years. Saved Cognos report definitions are preserved in the archive so they can be reconstructed visually for DCAA evidence, and the underlying data is queryable directly via SQL through Athena/BigQuery/Snowflake.
Every report federal contractors actually use for DCAA audit defense, contract closeout, customer dispute resolution and management lookback. Indirect Rate Reports: pool calculation workpapers, approved provisional rate certs, forward-pricing rate cert history, ICE submission packages. Project Reports: Job Summary Reports, Project Status Reports, Funding Status Reports, Backlog Reports, EAC/ETC history. Billing Reports: per-CLIN billed-to-date, T&M billing detail by PLC, WAWF iRAPT submission history. EVMS Reports: Cobra (CER) CPR/IPMR submissions, SPI/CPI trend history, variance explanations. Compliance Reports: floor check records, executive comp cap tests, CAS Disclosure Statement cross-references, DCAA business-system controls evidence. All reproducible from the archive without a live Costpoint instance.
Yes — and this is the single most important capability for federal contractors facing audit lookback. Every transaction, every master record, every approved rate cert is captured at every point-in-time in the archive. So when DCAA requests the FY2019 indirect-rate certification for incurred-cost submission, the historical reporting layer reconstructs the report using the FY2019 pool design, FY2019 allocation base, FY2019 approved provisional rate and FY2019 supporting cost data — not today's structure. The same point-in-time fidelity applies to contract billing (per-CLIN billed-to-date reconstruction for closeout), Cobra EVMS (CPR/IPMR series reconstruction for source-selection past-performance write-up) and floor check records (timekeeping audit defense).
Faster for the lookup patterns federal contractors actually use. Live Costpoint with Cognos reporting layered on top is optimized for transaction posting and current-period reporting — historical multi-year queries (like 'show me 10 years of pool calculations for Pool 12') often run for minutes. The Syntra archive uses columnar Parquet plus an OpenSearch index, so the same 10-year pool query returns in under 2 seconds. Drill-downs (from an aggregated pool calculation to the underlying voucher detail to the attached vendor invoice PDF) typically complete in under 5 seconds end-to-end. Saved-search subscriptions deliver scheduled reports to controller, DCAA liaison and contract administrator inboxes on a cron schedule.
Especially well. Closed contracts and wound-down subsidiaries are exactly the scenarios where deltek costpoint historical reporting beats keeping Costpoint alive. The contract is closed, the subsidiary is wound down, there is no operational reason for a running Costpoint stack — but DCAA evidence obligations stretch 7+ years post-closeout, and source-selection past-performance write-ups for new bids reach back to those closed contracts for Cobra EVMS series and CPR/IPMR submissions. The archive preserves all of it queryable. Costpoint licence and infrastructure get cancelled at the next renewal. Historical reporting continues as a self-serve capability for the controller, DCAA liaison and BD team writing past-performance volumes.
Yes. The archive runs on FedRAMP-aligned cloud infrastructure (where required) with KMS encryption at rest (customer-managed keys supported), TLS 1.2+ in transit, MFA-enforced access with CAC/PIV smart card support, role-based access control, immutable object-lock retention, comprehensive audit logging shipping to your SIEM, and IP-allowlisted ingress for CUI handling. For CMMC scope, the archive can be deployed in a CMMC Level 2-aligned tenancy with full asset inventory, configuration management, audit and accountability controls. For DFARS 252.204-7012 CUI scope, encryption-in-transit and encryption-at-rest requirements are met out of the box. Federal-contractor security review routinely accepts the archive on first attempt.
Saved Cognos and BIRT report definitions are preserved in the archive as metadata alongside the underlying data they queried. So a 2019-as-of Job Summary Report definition can be reconstructed visually for DCAA evidence purposes, even if the live Cognos report server has been decommissioned years prior. The underlying data is also queryable directly via SQL through Athena/BigQuery/Snowflake, so analysts can rebuild equivalent reports in modern tools (Power BI, Tableau, Looker, OTBI) without depending on Cognos infrastructure. The reporting layer reflects the modern reality of govt-contracting analytics: keep the historical evidence intact, deliver it through whatever tool the consumer prefers today.
30-minute call. We'll walk through your Costpoint Cognos and BIRT report inventory, DCAA evidence obligations, contract closeout schedule and past-performance write-up workflow — and give you a concrete deltek costpoint historical reporting plan with infrastructure-savings math.