A few tips for scrubbing your manual before a review:
* The 2008 DCMA Guidebook manual checklist is a few policies short. Make sure you have policies for ARRA compliance, Human Trafficking, Counterfeit Parts, Executive Compensation Reporting and Excessive Contractor Pass-Through as well.
Often, when policies and procedures are revised at the ground level little truing up is done on the purchasing manual (e.g. have you changed requisition formats but neglected to update the manual? Any new systems in place capturing document requirements?). Also, new manuals (either brought with someone from their last place of employment or purchased from a consulting firm) likely contain several areas of practical dissonance with actual practices (e.g. Are you REALLY performing cost analysis whenever required by the FAR?