Unanet and Deltek cover more than just DCAA-compliant accounting, project and contract management, proposal tracking, resource planning across cost-reimbursement and fixed-price work at once. That broader footprint is exactly why both are priced and built for a contractor running real volume across multiple contract vehicles, not a five-person shop that just needs its books to clear a preaward survey.
Most small GovCon shops starting out only actually need the accounting piece to pass a DCAA preaward survey (a narrower, cheaper problem), and discover a full Unanet or Deltek rollout solves problems they don't have yet while costing what a problem they do have shouldn't. We start by figuring out which one you actually are, a contractor that just needs compliant accounting, or one running multiple simultaneous contract vehicles that genuinely needs project and resource management tied to the financials, and match the system to that. From there, your existing contract history, cost data, and proposal pipeline need to move in correctly, and if your agency relationships or contract-vehicle mix doesn't fit either platform's standard project structure, we build the piece that's missing instead of forcing your PMs to track it outside the system.
Unanet and Deltek both bundle project management, resource planning, and proposal tracking alongside DCAA-compliant accounting. If you're bidding across multiple contract vehicles with real program-management complexity, that's genuinely the problem to solve. If you just need to clear a preaward survey, that's a narrower, cheaper problem, and we'll tell you honestly which one you actually have.
Existing contract data, cost history, and an active proposal pipeline usually live across whatever combination of spreadsheets and prior systems a growing contractor has accumulated. We migrate that in correctly so an active bid doesn't stall mid-cycle during a platform switch.
A contractor running IDIQ task orders alongside standard fixed-price and cost-reimbursement contracts sometimes finds that one platform's project structure doesn't represent all three cleanly. When that's the case, we build the structure that fits your actual vehicle mix instead of leaving your PMs to track exceptions outside the system.
Your real contract mix, how many vehicles you're managing at once, and whether project and resource planning are genuine needs or just accounting dressed up, decides this more than a vendor demo. Tell us how your contracts actually run and we'll tell you honestly which system fits, what a real migration looks like, or whether your vehicle mix needs something built custom.
Get a free quote → →That depends entirely on whether project and resource management across multiple contract vehicles is a real problem for you right now, or whether your main exposure is just passing a preaward survey. We check that honestly before recommending the bigger, more expensive platform.
Yes, if planned properly, which is what we do before any cutover. We move contract data, cost history, and an active proposal pipeline in ahead of go-live so nothing stalls mid-bid.
It can, meaningfully. Not every platform's standard project structure represents an IDIQ task-order vehicle cleanly alongside standard contract types, which is exactly what we check before narrowing the field.
We do. Unanet and Deltek support their own platforms; mapping your real contract-vehicle mix, migrating history, and building custom project structure when the standard template doesn't fit, is our work.
Picking usually takes a couple of weeks once we understand your contract mix. The migration itself depends on contract volume and history, typically six to twelve weeks for a full Unanet or Deltek rollout.