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48 CFR · Federal Acquisition Regulation and Defense supplement

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49 sections with “Fixed-price contracts and subcontracts”: the first 40

  • FAR 31.102 Fixed-price contracts.
    The applicable subparts of part 31 shall be used in the pricing of fixed-price contracts, subcontracts, and modifications to contracts and subcontracts whenever (a) cost analysis is performed, or (b) a fixed-price contract clause requires t…
  • FAR 52.230-6 Administration of Cost Accounting Standards.
    …prohibition provisions of CAS-covered contracts and subcontracts affected by the change. Fixed-price contracts and subcontracts means— (1) Fixed-price contracts and subcontracts described at FAR 16.202, 16.203, (except when price adjustme…
  • FAR 52.244-2 Subcontracts.
    … and changes and modifications to purchase orders. (b) When this clause is included in a fixed-price type contract, consent to subcontract is required only on unpriced contract actions (including unpriced modifications or unpriced delivery…
  • FAR 15.408 Solicitation provisions and contract clauses.
    …cant value, the contracting officer shall use the clause with— (1) Its Alternate I, if a fixed-price incentive contract is contemplated; or (2) Its Alternate II, if a cost-plus-incentive-fee contract is contemplated. (b) Price Reduction …
  • FAR 31.204 Application of principles and procedures.
    …d by the subcontractor that are consistent with this part: (i) Cost-reimbursement. (ii) Fixed-price incentive. (iii) Price redeterminable (i.e., fixed-price contracts with prospective price redetermination and fixed-ceiling-price contrac…
  • FAR 30.604 Processing changes to disclosed or established cost accounting practices.
    …es multiplied by the total estimated base computed for each of the following groups: (A) Fixed-price contracts and subcontracts. (B) Flexibly-priced contracts and subcontracts. (iii) Any other method that provides a reasonable approximat…
  • FAR 31.105 Construction and architect-engineer contracts.
    …ing, negotiating, or determining costs under terminated contracts; (4) Price revision of fixed-price incentive contracts; and (5) Pricing changes and other contract modifications. (d) Except as otherwise provided in this paragraph (d), t…
  • FAR 49.603-8 Fixed-price contracts—settlements with subcontractors only.
    [Insert the following in Block 14 of SF 30 for settlements of fixed-price contracts covering only settlements with subcontractors.] (a) This agreement settles that portion of the settlement proposal of the Contractor that is based upon ter…
  • FAR 12.214 Cost Accounting Standards.
    …commercial products or commercial services when these contracts and subcontracts are firm-fixed-price or fixed-price with economic price adjustment (provided that the price adjustment is not based on actual costs incurred). See 30.201-1 for…
  • FAR 22.407 Solicitation provision and contract clauses.
    …Pricing Method), in solicitations and contracts if the contract is expected to be— (1) A fixed-price contract subject to the Construction Wage Rate Requirements statute that will contain option provisions by which the contracting officer m…
  • FAR 30.001 Definitions.
    …prohibition provisions of CAS-covered contracts and subcontracts affected by the change. Fixed-price contracts and subcontracts means— (1) Fixed-price contracts and subcontracts described at 16.202, 16.203 (except when price adjustments a…
  • FAR 30.605 Processing noncompliances.
    …act and subcontract incentives, fees, and profits, for each of the following groups: (A) Fixed-price contracts and subcontracts. (B) Flexibly-priced contracts and subcontracts. (ii) The increased or decreased costs to the Government for …
  • FAR 52.226-1 Utilization of Indian Organizations and Indian-Owned Economic Enterprises.
    …f a cost-plus-incentive-fee prime contract. (iii) The target cost and ceiling price of a fixed-price incentive prime contract. (iv) The price of a firm-fixed-price prime contract. (3) The amount of the adjustment to the prime contract is…
  • FAR 52.229-7 Taxes—Fixed-Price Contracts With Foreign Governments.
    As prescribed in 29.402-1(b), insert the following clause: Taxes—Fixed—Price Contracts With Foreign Governments (FEB 2013) (a) Contract date, as used in this clause, means the date set for bid opening or, if this is a negotiated contract …
  • FAR 49.502 Termination for convenience of the Government.
    (a) Fixed-price contracts that do not exceed the simplified acquisition threshold (short form)—(1) General use. The contracting officer shall insert the clause at 52.249-1, Termination for Convenience of the Government (Fixed-Price) (Short …
  • FAR 49.503 Termination for convenience of the Government and default.
    …all use the clause with its Alternate V. (b) Insert the clause at 52.249-7, Termination (Fixed-Price Architect-Engineer), in solicitations and contracts for architect-engineer services, when a fixed-price contract is contemplated. (c) Sub…
  • FAR 52.232-27 Prompt Payment for Construction Contracts.
    …ined by the Contracting Officer in accordance with the clause at 52.232-5, Payments Under Fixed-Price Construction Contracts, is as specified in the contract or, if not specified, 30 days after approval by the Contracting Officer for releas…
  • FAR 52.248-1 Value Engineering.
    … the term does not include quantities funded after VECP acceptance. If this contract is a fixed-price contract with prospective price redetermination, the term refers to the period for which firm prices have been established. Instant unit …
  • DFARS 252.227-7013 Rights in Technical Data—Other Than Commercial Products and Commercial Services.
    …Private expense determinations should be made at the lowest practicable level. (2) Under fixed-price contracts, when total costs are greater than the firm-fixed-price or ceiling price of the contract, the additional development costs neces…
  • DFARS 252.227-7014 Rights in Other Than Commercial Computer Software and Other Than Commercial Computer Software Documentation.
    …Private expense determinations should be made at the lowest practicable level. (2) Under fixed-price contracts, when total costs are greater than the firm-fixed-price or ceiling price of the contract, the additional development costs neces…
  • FAR 15.403-4 Requiring certified cost or pricing data (10 U.S.C. chapter 271 and 41 U.S.C. chapter 35).
    …nal pricing actions (such as termination settlements and total final price agreements for fixed-price incentive and redeterminable contracts) are contract modifications requiring certified cost or pricing data if— (A) The total final price…
  • FAR 16.102 Policies.
    (a) Contracts resulting from sealed bidding shall be firm-fixed-price contracts or fixed-price contracts with economic price adjustment. (b) Contracts negotiated under part 15 may be of any type or combination of types that will promote th…
  • FAR 30.606 Resolving cost impacts.
    …es, the CFAO shall— (i) To the maximum extent practical, not adjust the price upward for fixed-price contracts; (ii) If contract adjustments are made, preclude payment of aggregate increased costs by taking one or both of the following ac…
  • FAR 31.103 Contracts with commercial organizations.
    …ermining costs under terminated contracts (see 49.103 and 49.113); (4) Price revision of fixed-price incentive contracts (see 16.204 and 16.403); (5) Price redetermination of price redetermination contracts (see 16.205 and 16.206); and (…
  • FAR 31.104 Contracts with educational institutions.
    …this subpart are to be used as a guide in evaluating costs in connection with negotiating fixed-price contracts and termination settlements.
  • FAR 35.009 Subcontracting research and development effort.
    …perimental, research, or development effort (see also 35.007(c)). Also when negotiating a fixed-price contract, the contracting officer should evaluate this information and may obtain an agreement that protects the Government's interests. T…
  • FAR 52.213-4 Terms and Conditions—Simplified Acquisitions (Other Than Commercial Products and Commercial Services).
    …of this contract). (iii) 52.211-17, Delivery of Excess Quantities (SEP 1989) (Applies to fixed-price supplies). (iv) 52.247-29, F.o.b. Origin (FEB 2006) (Applies to supplies if delivery is f.o.b. origin). (v) 52.247-34, F.o.b. Destinatio…
  • FAR 52.249-2 Termination for Convenience of the Government (Fixed-Price).
    …02(b)(1)(i), insert the following clause: Termination for Convenience of the Government (Fixed-Price) (APR 2012) (a) The Government may terminate performance of work under this contract in whole or, from time to time, in part if the Contr…
  • DFARS 252.211-7003 Item Unique Identification and Valuation.
    …o an enterprise by an issuing agency. Government's unit acquisition cost means— (1) For fixed-price type line, subline, or exhibit line items, the unit price identified in the contract at the time of delivery; (2) For cost-type or undefi…
  • FAR 15.404-4 Profit.
    …r cost risks. (B) The contractor assumes the greatest cost risk in a closely priced firm-fixed-price contract under which it agrees to perform a complex undertaking on time and at a predetermined price. Some firm-fixed-price contracts may …
  • FAR 44.204 Contract clauses.
    …ract; (ii) A letter contract that exceeds the simplified acquisition threshold; (iii) A fixed-price contract that exceeds the simplified acquisition threshold under which unpriced contract actions (including unpriced modifications or unpr…
  • FAR 52.215-23 Limitations on Pass-Through Charges.
    …racting Officer determines that excessive pass-through charges exist; (1) For other than fixed-price contracts, the excessive pass-through charges are unallowable in accordance with the provisions in FAR subpart 31.2; and (2) For applicab…
  • DFARS 228.102-1 General.
    …t bonds is waived for cost-reimbursement contracts. However, for cost-type contracts with fixed-price construction subcontracts over $40,000, require the prime contractor to obtain from each of its construction subcontractors performance an…
  • DFARS 234.201 Policy.
    … procedures at PGI 234.201(1)(iii) for conducting a cost-benefit analysis. (iv) For firm-fixed-price contracts and subcontracts of any dollar value— (A) The application of earned value management is discouraged; and (B) Follow the proced…
  • FAR 15.404-1 Proposal analysis techniques.
    … of the cost realism analysis. (3) Cost realism analyses may also be used on competitive fixed-price incentive contracts or, in exceptional cases, on other competitive fixed-price-type contracts when new requirements may not be fully under…
  • FAR 44.201-1 Consent requirements.
    …or unpriced actions (including unpriced modifications and unpriced delivery orders) under fixed-price contracts that exceed the simplified acquisition threshold, for— (1) Cost-reimbursement, time-and-materials, or labor-hour subcontracts; …
  • FAR 44.302 Requirements.
    …ontracts. If a contractor's sales to the Government (excluding competitively awarded firm-fixed-price and competitively awarded fixed-price with economic price adjustment contracts and sales of commercial products and commercial services pu…
  • FAR 44.303 Extent of review.
    …ractor exclusively in support of Government contracts that are competitively awarded firm-fixed-price, competitively awarded fixed-price with economic price adjustment, or awarded for commercial products and commercial services pursuant to …
  • FAR 44.305-2 Notification.
    … arrangements exist; (ii) Waives the contractual requirement for advance notification in fixed-price contracts, but not for cost-reimbursement contracts; (iii) Waives the contractual requirement for consent to subcontracts in fixed-price …
  • FAR 52.248-3 Value Engineering—Construction.
    …ment costs from instant contract savings and multiplying the result by (i) 45 percent for fixed-price contracts or (ii) 75 percent for cost-reimbursement contracts. (2) Payment. Payment of any share due the Contractor for use of a VECP on …

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Source: eCFR, 48 CFR chapters 1 and 2 (GPO GovInfo bulk data) ↗. Rule changes in progress: FAR, DFARS. Terms: glossary.