48 CFR · Federal Acquisition Regulation and Defense supplement

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5 sections with “costs of idle facilities or idle capacity”

  • FAR 31.205-17 Idle facilities and idle capacity costs.
    (a) Definitions. As used in this subsection— Costs of idle facilities or idle capacity means costs such as maintenance, repair, housing, rent, and other related costs; e.g., property taxes, insurance, and depreciation. Facilities means pl…
  • FAR 31.205-16 Gains and losses on disposition or impairment of depreciable property or other capital assets.
    …31.205-52). (b) Notwithstanding the provisions in paragraph (c) of this subsection, when costs of depreciable property are subject to the sale and leaseback limitations in 31.205-11(h)(1) or 31.205-36(b)(2)— (1) The gain or loss is the di…
  • DFARS 215.404-71-4 Facilities capital employed.
    …ng overhead rates to appropriate overhead allocation bases to determine contract overhead costs. (ii) Is designed to record and compute the contract facilities capital cost of money and capital employed which is carried forward to DD Form …
  • DFARS 215.404-71-5 Cost efficiency factor.
    (a) This special factor provides an incentive for contractors to reduce costs. To the extent that the contractor can demonstrate cost reduction efforts that benefit the pending contract, the contracting officer may increase the prenegotiati…
  • FAR 31.109 Advance agreements.
    (a) The extent of allowability of the costs covered in this part applies broadly to many accounting systems in varying contract situations. Thus, the reasonableness, the allocability and the allowability under the specific cost principles a…

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.