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FAR 52.214-28 Subcontractor Certified Cost or Pricing Data—Modifications—Sealed Bidding.

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In plain English

This clause makes a prime contractor responsible for obtaining certified cost or pricing data from subcontractors when subcontract awards or modifications exceed the certified cost or pricing data threshold in FAR 15.403-4(a)(1). It applies only to those subcontract actions and requires the subcontractor to certify that the data is accurate, complete, and current. The contractor must also flow the substance of the clause down to covered subcontracts.

Applies to: Prime contractors awarding or modifying subcontracts under sealed bidding contracts

What it requires

  • Require the subcontractor to submit certified cost or pricing data as part of its proposal, unless an exception under FAR 15.403-1(b) applies
  • Require the subcontractor to certify that the submitted data were accurate, complete, and current as of the date of agreement on the negotiated price
  • Insert the substance of this clause, including paragraph (d), in each subcontract that exceeds the FAR 15.403-4(a)(1) threshold

Key terms: certified cost or pricing data · subcontract · modification · threshold for submission of certified cost or pricing data · FAR 15.403-1(b) exception

Written by AI from this section's text. A guide, not legal advice: the text below rules.

The text

As prescribed in 14.201-7(c)(1)(i), insert the following clause:

Subcontractor Certified Cost or Pricing Data—Modifications—Sealed Bidding (JUN 2020)

(a) The requirements of paragraphs (b) and (c) of this clause shall

(1) Become operative only for any modification to this contract involving aggregate increases and/or decreases in costs, plus applicable profits, expected to exceed the threshold for submission of certified cost or pricing data in Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 15.403-4(a)(1) on the date of execution of the modification, and

(2) Be limited to such modifications.

(b) Before awarding any subcontract expected to exceed the threshold for submission of certified cost or pricing data in FAR 15.403-4(a)(1), on the date of agreement on price or the date of award, whichever is later, or before pricing any subcontract modifications involving aggregate increases and/or decreases in costs, plus applicable profits, expected to exceed the threshold for submission of certified cost or pricing data in FAR 15.403-4(a)(1), the Contractor shall require the subcontractor to submit certified cost or pricing data (actually or by specific identification in writing), as part of the subcontractor's proposal in accordance with FAR 15.408, Table 15-2 (to include any information reasonably required to explain the subcontractor's estimating process such as the judgmental factors applied and the mathematical or other methods used in the estimate, including those used in projecting from known data, and the nature and amount of any contingencies included in the price), unless an exception under FAR 15.403-1(b) applies. If the threshold for submission of certified cost or pricing data specified in FAR 15.403-4(a)(1) is adjusted for inflation as set forth in FAR 1.109(a), then pursuant to FAR 1.109(d) the changed threshold applies throughout the remaining term of the contract, unless there is a subsequent threshold adjustment.

(c) The Contractor shall require the subcontractor to certify in substantially the form prescribed in subsection 15.406-2 of the Federal Acquisition Regulation that, to the best of its knowledge and belief, the data submitted under paragraph (b) above were accurate, complete, and current as of the date of agreement on the negotiated price of the subcontract or subcontract modification.

(d) The Contractor shall insert the substance of this clause, including this paragraph (d), in each subcontract that, when entered into, exceeds the threshold for submission of certified cost or pricing data in FAR 15.403-4(a)(1).

(End of clause)

Alternate I (OCT 2025). As prescribed in 14.201-7(c)(1)(ii), substitute the following paragraph (b) in place of paragraph (b) of the basic clause:

(b) Unless an exception under FAR 15.403-1(b) applies, the Contractor shall require the subcontractor to submit certified cost or pricing data (actually or by specific identification in writing), as part of the subcontractor's proposal in accordance with FAR 15.408, Table 15-2 (to include any information reasonably required to explain the subcontractor's estimating process such as the judgmental factors applied and the mathematical or other methods used in the estimate, including those used in projecting from known data, and the nature and amount of any contingencies included in the price)—

(1) Before modifying any subcontract that was awarded prior to July 1, 2018, involving a pricing adjustment expected to exceed $950,000; or

(2) Before awarding any subcontract expected to exceed $2.5 million on or after July 1, 2018, or modifying any subcontract that was awarded on or after July 1, 2018, involving a pricing adjustment expected to exceed $2.5 million.

Sections it refers to

  • 14.201-7 Contract clauses.
  • 15.403-4 Requiring certified cost or pricing data (10 U.S.C. chapter 271 and 41 U.S.C. chapter 35).
  • 15.408 Solicitation provisions and contract clauses.
  • 15.403-1 Prohibition on obtaining certified cost or pricing data (10 U.S.C. chapter 271 and 41 U.S.C. chapter 35).
  • 1.109 Statutory acquisition-related dollar thresholds—adjustment for inflation.
  • 15.406-2 Certificate of current cost or pricing data.

Sections that refer to it

← 52.214-27 Price Reduction for Defective Certified Cost or Pricing Data—Modifications—Sealed Bidding. · 52.214-29 Order of Precedence—Sealed Bidding. →

Rule changes for FAR Part 52

Source: eCFR, 48 CFR chapters 1 and 2 (GPO GovInfo bulk data) ↗. Plain words for the terms: glossary.

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