48 CFR · Federal Acquisition Regulation and Defense supplement

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12 sections with “Sharing rates”

  • FAR 42.707 Cost-sharing rates and limitations on indirect cost rates.
    (a) Cost-sharing arrangements, when authorized, may call for the contractor to participate in the costs of the contract by accepting indirect cost rates lower than the anticipated actual rates. In such cases, a negotiated indirect cost rate…
  • FAR 48.104-2 Sharing acquisition savings.
    (a) Supply or service contracts. (1) The sharing base for acquisition savings is the number of affected end items on contracts of the contracting office accepting the VECP. The sharing rates (Government/contractor) for net acquisition savin…
  • FAR 48.102 Policies.
    …lculating instant or future contract savings. (g) The contracting officer determines the sharing periods and sharing rates on a case-by-case basis using the guidelines in 48.104-1 and 48.104-2, respectively. In establishing a sharing perio…
  • FAR 52.248-1 Value Engineering.
    …y net acquisition savings realized from accepted VECP's, in accordance with the incentive sharing rates in paragraph (f) below. (b) Definitions. Acquisition savings, as used in this clause, means savings resulting from the application of a…
  • FAR 16.307 Contract clauses.
    …when a cost-reimbursement contract is contemplated that provides no fee and is not a cost-sharing contract. (2) If a cost-reimbursement research and development contract with an educational institution or a nonprofit organization that prov…
  • FAR 48.103 Processing value engineering change proposals.
    …rmination of collateral costs or collateral savings. (3) The decision as to which of the sharing rates applies when Alternate II of the clause at 52.248-1, Value Engineering, is used. (4) The contracting officer's determination of the dur…
  • FAR 2.101 Definitions.
    … (3) Are consistent with the various elements of the offeror's technical proposal. Cost sharing means an explicit arrangement under which the contractor bears some of the burden of reasonable, allocable, and allowable contract cost. Cove…
  • FAR 31.205-6 Compensation for personal services.
    …ans. In addition to defined-contribution pension plans, this paragraph also covers profit sharing, savings plans, and other such plans, provided the plans fall within the definition of a pension plan at 31.001. (i) Allowable pension cost i…
  • FAR 41.301 Requirements.
    …es to construct and operate its own utility facilities in lieu of participating in a cost-sharing construction program with the proposed utility supplier. (d) For existing utility service, the agency shall furnish GSA the information in pa…
  • FAR 52.216-7 Allowable Cost and Payment.
    …t as provided in paragraph (b)(2) of the clause, with respect to pension, deferred profit sharing, and employee stock ownership plan contributions), the term costs includes only— (i) Those recorded costs that, at the time of the request fo…
  • FAR 52.222-26 Equal Opportunity.
    …d holiday pay, allowances, insurance and other benefits, stock options and awards, profit sharing, and retirement. Compensation information means the amount and type of compensation provided to employees or offered to applicants, including…
  • FAR 52.248-3 Value Engineering—Construction.
    …P is a unilateral decision made solely at the discretion of the Contracting Officer. (f) Sharing—(1) Rates. The Government's share of savings is determined by subtracting Government costs from instant contract savings and multiplying the r…

FAR (chapter 1)

DFARS (chapter 2, Defense)

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