48 CFR · Federal Acquisition Regulation and Defense supplement

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3 sections with “facilities capital employed”

  • DFARS 215.404-71-4 Facilities capital employed.
    (a) Description. This factor focuses on encouraging and rewarding capital investment in facilities that benefit DoD. It recognizes both the facilities capital that the contractor will employ in contract performance and the contractor's comm…
  • DFARS 215.404-73 Alternate structured approaches.
    …omponents of profit—performance risk, contract type risk (including working capital), and facilities capital employed. However, the contracting officer is not required to complete Blocks 21 through 30 of the DD Form 1547. (2) Offset for fa…
  • DFARS 215.404-71-1 General.
    …thod focuses on four profit factors— (1) Performance risk; (2) Contract type risk; (3) Facilities capital employed; and (4) Cost efficiency. (b) The contracting officer assigns values to each profit factor; the value multiplied by the …

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.