48 CFR · Federal Acquisition Regulation and Defense supplement

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9 sections with “profit adjustment formula”

  • FAR 16.403-1 Fixed-price incentive (firm target) contracts.
    …ription. A fixed-price incentive (firm target) contract specifies a target cost, a target profit, a price ceiling (but not a profit ceiling or floor), and a profit adjustment formula. These elements are all negotiated at the outset. The pri…
  • FAR 16.403-2 Fixed-price incentive (successive targets) contracts.
    … which are negotiated at the outset: (i) An initial target cost. (ii) An initial target profit. (iii) An initial profit adjustment formula to be used for establishing the firm target profit, including a ceiling and floor for the firm tar…
  • FAR 52.216-17 Incentive Price Revision—Successive Targets.
    …tems shown in the Schedule are the initial target prices, which include an initial target profit of ___ [Contracting Officer insert percent] percent of the initial target cost. Any supplies or services that are to be (1) ordered separately …
  • DFARS 215.404-71-3 Contract type risk and working capital adjustment.
    …nder varying contract types. The working capital adjustment is an adjustment added to the profit objective for contract type risk. It only applies to fixed-price contracts that provide for progress payments. Though it uses a formula approac…
  • FAR 2.101 Definitions.
    … unique entity identifier. The suffix is assigned at the discretion of the commercial, nonprofit, or Government entity to establish additional System for Award Management records for identifying alternative EFT accounts (see subpart 32.11) …
  • FAR 16.402-1 Cost incentives.
    (a) Most incentive contracts include only cost incentives, which take the form of a profit or fee adjustment formula and are intended to motivate the contractor to effectively manage costs. No incentive contract may provide for other incent…
  • FAR 31.205-18 Independent research and development and bid and proposal costs.
    … cost objectives on the same basis of allocation used for the G&A expense grouping of the profit center (see 31.001) in which the costs are incurred. However, when IR&D and B&P costs clearly benefit other profit centers or benefit the entir…
  • FAR 48.104-2 Sharing acquisition savings.
    …each VECP. (See 48.102(g) (1) through (7).) 2 Same sharing arrangement as the contract's profit or fee adjustment formula. 3 The contracting officer may increase the contractor's sharing rate to as high as 50 percent for each VECP. (See 4…
  • FAR 52.248-1 Value Engineering.
    …ate to as high as 75 percent for each VECP. 2 Same sharing arrangement as the contract's profit or fee adjustment formula. 3 The Contracting Officer may increase the Contractor's sharing rate to as high as 50 percent for each VECP. (g) C…

FAR (chapter 1)

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