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54 sections with “increased costs”: the first 40

  • FAR 30.605 Processing noncompliances.
    …plated contract price or cost adjustments will protect the Government from the payment of increased costs, in the aggregate; (2) The net effect of the contemplated contract price or cost adjustments will not result in the recovery of more …
  • FAR 30.606 Resolving cost impacts.
    …l not combine the cost impacts of any of the following unless all of the cost impacts are increased costs to Government: (A) One or more unilateral changes. (B) One or more noncompliances. (C) Unilateral changes and noncompliances; and …
  • FAR 52.230-6 Administration of Cost Accounting Standards.
    … desirable and not detrimental to the Government and is, therefore, not subject to the no increased cost prohibition provisions of CAS-covered contracts and subcontracts affected by the change. Fixed-price contracts and subcontracts means—…
  • FAR 30.603-2 Unilateral and desirable changes.
    … disclosed or established cost accounting practices, but the Government shall not pay any increased cost, in the aggregate, as a result of the unilateral change. (2) Prior to making any contract price or cost adjustments under the applicab…
  • FAR 30.604 Processing changes to disclosed or established cost accounting practices.
    …racts. (B) Flexibly-priced contracts and subcontracts. (ii) For unilateral changes, the increased or decreased costs to the Government for each of the following groups: (A) Fixed-price contracts and subcontracts. (B) Flexibly-priced con…
  • FAR 31.205-46 Travel costs.
    … routing, require travel during unreasonable hours, excessively prolong travel, result in increased cost that would offset transportation savings, are not reasonably adequate for the physical or medical needs of the traveler, or are not rea…
  • FAR 52.212-4 Contract Terms and Conditions—Commercial Products and Commercial Services.
    …lacement or correction can be performed within the ceiling price (or the ceiling price as increased by the Government), the Government may— (A) By contract or otherwise, perform the replacement or correction, charge to the Contractor any i…
  • FAR 52.230-2 Cost Accounting Standards.
    …d, or to follow any cost accounting practice consistently and such failure results in any increased costs paid by the United States. Such adjustment shall provide for recovery of the increased costs to the United States, together with inter…
  • FAR 52.230-5 Cost Accounting Standards—Educational Institution.
    …d, or to follow any cost accounting practice consistently and such failure results in any increased costs paid by the United States. Such adjustment shall provide for recovery of the increased costs to the United States, together with inter…
  • FAR 52.249-10 Default (Fixed-Price Construction).
    …he Contractor's right to proceed with the work is terminated. This liability includes any increased costs incurred by the Government in completing the work. (b) The Contractor's right to proceed shall not be terminated nor the Contractor c…
  • FAR 30.001 Definitions.
    … desirable and not detrimental to the Government and is, therefore, not subject to the no increased cost prohibition provisions of CAS-covered contracts and subcontracts affected by the change. Fixed-price contracts and subcontracts means—…
  • FAR 31.205-6 Compensation for personal services.
    … income taxes resulting from domestic assignments are unallowable. (However, payments for increased employee income or Federal Insurance Contributions Act taxes incident to allowable reimbursed relocation costs are allowable under 31.205-35…
  • FAR 31.205-35 Relocation costs.
    …acated home times 3 years. (9) Costs of canceling an unexpired lease. (10) Payments for increased employee income or Federal Insurance Contributions Act (26 U.S.C. chapter 21) taxes incident to allowable reimbursed relocation costs. (11)…
  • FAR 52.216-17 Incentive Price Revision—Successive Targets.
    …cost is less than the total initial target cost, the total initial target profit shall be increased. The initial target profit shall be increased or decreased by __ percent [see Note 2] of the difference between the total initial target cos…
  • FAR 52.222-43 Fair Labor Standards Act and Service Contract Labor Standards—Price Adjustment (Multiple Year and Option Contracts).
    …hat the prices in this contract do not include any allowance for any contingency to cover increased costs for which adjustment is provided under this clause. (c) The wage determination, issued under the Service Contract Labor Standards sta…
  • FAR 52.222-44 Fair Labor Standards Act and Service Contract Labor Standards—Price Adjustment.
    …hat the prices in this contract do not include any allowance for any contingency to cover increased costs for which adjustment is provided under this clause. (c) The contract price, contract unit price labor rates, or fixed hourly labor ra…
  • FAR 52.222-55 Minimum Wages for Contractor Workers Under Executive Order 14026.
    … date of the new annual E.O. minimum wage determination. Prices will be adjusted only for increased labor costs (including subcontractor labor costs) as a result of an increase in the annual E.O. minimum wage, and for associated labor costs…
  • FAR 52.230-3 Disclosure and Consistency of Cost Accounting Practices.
    …applicable CAS or to follow any cost accounting practice, and such failure results in any increased costs paid by the United States. Such adjustment shall provide for recovery of the increased costs to the United States together with intere…
  • FAR 52.230-4 Disclosure and Consistency of Cost Accounting Practices—Foreign Concerns.
    …applicable CAS or to follow any cost accounting practice, and such failure results in any increased costs paid by the U.S. Government. Such adjustment shall provide for recovery of the increased costs to the U.S. Government, together with i…
  • FAR 52.232-22 Limitation of Funds.
    …er notifies the Contractor in writing that the amount allotted by the Government has been increased and specifies an increased amount, which shall then constitute the total amount allotted by the Government to this contract. (g) The estima…
  • FAR 14.404-2 Rejection of individual bids.
    …rejected in which the bidder— (1) Protects against future changes in conditions, such as increased costs, if total possible costs to the Government cannot be determined; (2) Fails to state a price and indicates that price shall be price i…
  • FAR 15.407-1 Defective certified cost or pricing data.
    …ice adjustment, including profit or fee, of any significant amount by which the price was increased because of the defective data. This entitlement is ensured by including in the contract one of the clauses prescribed in 15.408(b) and (c) a…
  • FAR 26.104 Contract clause.
    … organizations or Indian-owned economic enterprises; and (b) Funds are available for any increased costs as described in paragraph (b)(2) of the clause at 52.226-1.
  • FAR 30.603-1 Required changes.
    …(see 30.603-2). Contractors shall not receive an equitable adjustment that will result in increased costs in the aggregate to the Government prior to the applicability date unless the CFAO determines that the unilateral change is a desirabl…
  • FAR 52.216-10 Incentive Fee.
    …ect cost rate proposals. (d) Equitable adjustments. When the work under this contract is increased or decreased by a modification to this contract or when any equitable adjustment in the target cost is authorized under any other clause, eq…
  • FAR 52.229-6 Taxes—Foreign Fixed-Price Contracts.
    … ruling or regulation in effect on the contract date. After-imposed tax means any new or increased tax or duty, or tax that was exempted or excluded on the contract date but whose exemption was later revoked or reduced during the contract …
  • FAR 52.232-20 Limitation of Cost.
    …ntracting Officer (i) notifies the Contractor in writing that the estimated cost has been increased and (ii) provides a revised estimated total cost of performing this contract. If this is a cost-sharing contract, the increase shall be allo…
  • FAR 52.243-7 Notification of Changes.
    …ibe the manner of disposition of the property. The equitable adjustment shall not include increased costs or time extensions for delay resulting from the Contractor's failure to provide notice or to continue performance as provided, respect…
  • FAR 52.247-59 F.o.b. Origin—Carload and Truckload Shipments.
    …d quantity in one shipment. (e) The Contractor shall be liable to the Government for any increased costs to the Government resulting from failure to comply with the above requirements. (End of clause)
  • FAR 52.247-61 F.o.b. Origin—Minimum Size of Shipments.
    …eduled quantity in one shipment. The Contractor shall be liable to the Government for any increased costs to the Government resulting from failure to comply with the above requirements. This liability shall not attach if supplies are outsiz…
  • DFARS 227.7103-14 Conformity, acceptance, and warranty of technical data.
    … or maintenance data would impair the Government's effective use of the item or result in increased costs to the Government. (2) As prescribed in 246.710, use the clause at 252.246-7001, Warranty of Data, and its alternates, or a substanti…
  • DFARS 252.223-7002 Safety Precautions for Ammunition and Explosives.
    …se. (5) If the direction to cease work or the removal of Government personnel results in increased costs to the Contractor, the Contractor shall not be entitled to an adjustment in the contract price or a change in the delivery or performa…
  • DFARS 252.251-7000 Ordering from Government supply sources.
    …ce with the terms of the contract, and the Contractor shall be solely responsible for any increased costs. (d) When placing orders for Government stock on a non-reimbursable basis, the Contractor shall— (1) Comply with the requirements of…
  • FAR 32.503-9 Liquidation rates—alternate method.
    … shall change the liquidation rate in the following circumstances: (1) The rate shall be increased for both previous and subsequent transactions, if the contractor experiences a lower profit rate than the rate anticipated at the time the l…
  • FAR 52.214-27 Price Reduction for Defective Certified Cost or Pricing Data—Modifications—Sealed Bidding.
    …, including profit, negotiated in connection with any modification under this clause, was increased by any significant amount because (1) the Contractor or a subcontractor furnished certified cost or pricing data that were not complete, acc…
  • FAR 52.216-16 Incentive Price Revision—Firm Target.
    …rmed) and accepted by the Government and for which final prices have not been established—increased or decreased in accordance with subparagraph (d)(2) above, when the amount stated under subdivision (ii), immediately above, differs from th…
  • FAR 52.229-4 Federal, State, and Local Taxes (State and Local Adjustments).
    … Adjustments) (FEB 2013) (a) As used in this clause— After-imposed tax means any new or increased Federal, State, or local tax or duty, or tax that was excluded on the contract date but whose exclusion was later revoked or amount of exemp…
  • FAR 52.232-7 Payments under Time-and-Materials and Labor-Hour Contracts.
    …he Contracting Officer notifies the Contractor in writing that the ceiling price has been increased and specifies in the notice a revised ceiling that shall constitute the ceiling price for performance under this contract. When and to the e…
  • FAR 52.243-2 Changes—Cost-Reimbursement.
    …crementally funded, the funds allotted for the performance of this contract, shall not be increased or considered to be increased except by specific written modification of the contract indicating the new contract estimated cost and, if thi…
  • DFARS 217.172 Multiyear contracts for supplies.
    …s to be procured over the life of the contract (10 U.S.C. 3501(j)). (j) Any requests for increased funding or reprogramming for procurement of a major system under a multiyear contract shall be accompanied by an explanation of how the requ…

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