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36 sections with “Pool”

  • FAR 9.702 Contracting with pools.
    (a) Except as specified in this subpart, a pool shall be treated the same as any other prospective or actual contractor. (b) The contracting officer shall not award a contract to a pool unless the offer leading to the contract is submitted…
  • FAR 9.703 Contracting with individual pool members.
    (a) Pool members may submit individual offers, independent of the pool. However, the contracting officer shall not consider an independent offer by a pool member if that pool member participates in a competing offer submitted by the pool. …
  • DFARS 232.470 Advance payment pool.
    (a) An advance payment pool agreement— (1) Is a means of financing the performance of more than one contract held by a single contractor; (2) Is especially convenient for the financing of cost-type contracts with nonprofit educational or …
  • DFARS 252.232-7000 Advance payment pool.
    As prescribed in 232.412-70(a), use the following clause: Advance Payment Pool (APR 2020) (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this contract, advance payments will be made for contract performance in accordance with the Determinatio…
  • FAR 28.304 Risk-pooling arrangements.
    Agencies may establish risk-pooling arrangements. These arrangements are designed to use the services of the insurance industry for safety engineering and the handling of claims at minimum cost to the Government. The agency responsible shal…
  • DFARS 228.304 Risk-pooling arrangements.
    …Projects Rating Plan, also known as the Special Casualty Insurance Rating Plan, as a risk-pooling arrangement to minimize the cost to the Government of purchasing the liability insurance listed in FAR 28.307-2. Use the plan in accordance wi…
  • FAR 31.201-6 Accounting for unallowable costs.
    …graph (c)(2) of this subsection. (d) If a directly associated cost is included in a cost pool that is allocated over a base that includes the unallowable cost with which it is associated, the directly associated cost shall remain in the co…
  • FAR 52.216-7 Allowable Cost and Payment.
    …nt Federal agency official: (A) Summary of all claimed indirect expense rates, including pool, base, and calculated indirect rate. (B) General and Administrative expenses (final indirect cost pool). Schedule of claimed expenses by element…
  • FAR 30.606 Resolving cost impacts.
    …tracts. (3) When using an alternate method that excludes the costs from an indirect cost pool, the CFAO shall— (i) Apply such exclusion only to the determination of final indirect cost rates (see 42.705); and (ii) Adjust the exclusion to…
  • FAR 9.000 Scope of part.
    …cts; first article testing and approval; contractor team arrangements; defense production pools and research and development pools; and organizational conflicts of interest.
  • FAR 15.404-4 Profit.
    …they contribute to contract performance. Considerations include how labor in the overhead pools would be treated if it were direct labor, whether elements within the pools are routine expenses or instead are elements that contribute signifi…
  • FAR 16.401 General.
    …; (iv) Utilize the adjectival rating and associated description as well as the award-fee pool earned percentages shown below in Table 16-1. Contracting officers may supplement the adjectival rating description. The method used to determine…
  • FAR 31.001 Definitions.
    …udes both direct assignment of cost and the reassignment of a share from an indirect cost pool. Compensated personal absence means any absence from work for reasons such as illness, vacation, holidays, jury duty, military training, or pers…
  • FAR 31.205-6 Compensation for personal services.
    …ket value, the contractor shall credit the amount of the excess to the same indirect cost pools that were charged for the ESOP contributions in the year in which the stock purchase occurs. However, when the trust purchases the stock with bo…
  • DFARS 215.404-71-4 Facilities capital employed.
    …hing a prenegotiation objective on cost. Complete the form as follows: (i) List overhead pools and direct-charging service centers (if used) in the same structure as they appear on the contractor's cost proposal and Form CASB-CMF. The stru…
  • DFARS 216.405-2 Cost-plus-award-fee contracts.
    (1) Award-fee pool. The award-fee pool is the total available award fee for each evaluation period for the life of the contract. The contracting officer shall perform an analysis of appropriate fee distribution to ensure at least 40 percent…
  • DFARS 232.412-70 Additional clauses.
    (a) Use the clause at 252.232-7000, Advance Payment Pool, in any contract that will be subject to the terms of an advance payment pool agreement with a nonprofit organization or educational institution. Normally, use the clause in all cost …
  • DFARS 239.7601 Definitions.
    …g means a model for enabling ubiquitous, convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (e.g., networks, servers, storage, applications, and services) that can be rapidly provisioned and released w…
  • DFARS 252.227-7013 Rights in Technical Data—Other Than Commercial Products and Commercial Services.
    …e expense means development was accomplished entirely with costs charged to indirect cost pools, costs not allocated to a Government contract, or any combination thereof. (1) Private expense determinations should be made at the lowest prac…
  • DFARS 252.227-7014 Rights in Other Than Commercial Computer Software and Other Than Commercial Computer Software Documentation.
    …e expense means development was accomplished entirely with costs charged to indirect cost pools, costs not allocated to a government contract, or any combination thereof. (1) Private expense determinations should be made at the lowest prac…
  • DFARS 252.227-7018 Rights in Other Than Commercial Technical Data and Computer Software—Small Business Innovation Research Program and Small Business Technology Transfer Program.
    …e expense means development was accomplished entirely with costs charged to indirect cost pools, costs not allocated to a government contract, or any combination thereof. (1) Private expense determinations should be made at the lowest prac…
  • DFARS 252.239-7009 Representation of use of cloud computing.
    …, means a model for enabling ubiquitous, convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (e.g., networks, servers, storage, applications, and services) that can be rapidly provisioned and released w…
  • DFARS 252.239-7010 Cloud Computing Services.
    …g means a model for enabling ubiquitous, convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (e.g., networks, servers, storage, applications, and services) that can be rapidly provisioned and released w…
  • FAR 9.701 Definition.
    Pool, as used in this subpart, means a group of concerns (see 19.001) that have— (1) Associated together in order to obtain and perform, jointly or in conjunction with each other, defense production or research and development contracts; …
  • FAR 19.705-4 Reviewing the subcontracting plan.
    …or, commensurate with the efficient and economical performance of the contract; (ii) The pool of eligible subcontractors available to fulfill the subcontracting opportunities; and (iii) The actual performance of such contractor in fulfill…
  • FAR 22.1003-4 Administrative limitations, variations, tolerances, and exemptions.
    … maintenance services (other than contracts or subcontracts to operate a Government motor pool or similar facility). (ii) Financial services involving the issuance and servicing of cards (including credit cards, debit cards, purchase cards…
  • FAR 22.1003-5 Some examples of contracts covered.
    …e Contract Labor Standards statute (see 29 CFR 4.130 for additional examples): (a) Motor pool operation, parking, taxicab, and ambulance services. (b) Packing, crating, and storage. (c) Custodial, janitorial, housekeeping, and guard serv…
  • FAR 31.202 Direct costs.
    …curred for the same purpose in like circumstances have been included in any indirect cost pool to be allocated to that or any other final cost objective. Direct costs of the contract shall be charged directly to the contract. All costs spec…
  • FAR 35.004 Publicizing requirements and expanding research and development sources.
    …ints of contact for potential sources. (b) See subpart 9.7 for information regarding R&D pools and subpart 9.6 for teaming arrangements.
  • FAR 37.115-2 General policy.
    …ontractor proposals. This includes uncompensated overtime hours that are in indirect cost pools for personnel whose regular hours are normally charged direct. (c) Contracting officers must ensure that the use of uncompensated overtime in c…
  • FAR 49.303-4 Adjustment of indirect costs.
    …inate the indirect cost and the related direct costs on which it was based from the total pool and base used to compute indirect costs for other contracts performed during the applicable accounting period.
  • FAR 51.000 Scope of part.
    … procedures for the use by contractors of Government supply sources and interagency motor pool vehicles and related services.
  • FAR 52.222-41 Service Contract Labor Standards.
    …tilized; (2) The employees must be allowed to retain all tips (individually or through a pooling arrangement and regardless of whether the employer elects to take a credit for tips received); (3) The employer must be able to show by recor…
  • FAR 52.237-10 Identification of Uncompensated Overtime.
    …r subcontract level. This includes uncompensated overtime hours that are in indirect cost pools for personnel whose regular hours are normally charged direct. (c) The offeror's accounting practices used to estimate uncompensated overtime m…
  • DFARS 209.571-3 Policy.
    …ational conflict of interest resolution strategies that do not unnecessarily restrict the pool of potential offerors in current or future acquisitions. Further, contracting activities shall not impose across-the-board restrictions or limita…
  • DFARS 212.102 Applicability.
    … defense contractor as commercial services, to the extent that such services use the same pool of employees as used for commercial customers and are priced using methodology similar to methodology used for commercial pricing; and (C) Shall…

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