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48 CFR · Federal Acquisition Regulation and Defense supplement

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32 sections with “sharing rate”

  • 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 48.104-1 Determining sharing period.
    (a) Contracting officers must determine discrete sharing periods for each VECP. If more than one VECP is incorporated into a contract, the sharing period for each VECP need not be identical. (b) The sharing period begins with acceptance of…
  • 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 48.104-3 Sharing collateral savings.
    …e the VECP is accepted; or (2) $100,000. (c) The contracting officer must determine the sharing rate for each VECP. (d) In determining collateral savings, the contracting officer must consider any degradation of performance, service life…
  • 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 48.001 Definitions.
    …f the future unit cost reduction multiplied by the number of future contract units in the sharing base. On an instant contract, future contract savings include savings on increases in quantities after VECP acceptance that are due to contrac…
  • 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 48.201 Clauses for supply or service contracts.
    … is accepted;” for “the number of future contract units scheduled for delivery during the sharing period;” and (2) Revising the first sentence under paragraph (3) of the definition of “acquisition savings” by substituting “a number equal t…
  • FAR 48.101 General.
    …lop and submit any value engineering change proposals (VECP's). The contract provides for sharing of savings and for payment of the contractor's allowable development and implementation costs only if a VECP is accepted. This voluntary appro…
  • 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 4.602 General.
    …C. chapter 85, Committee for Purchase from People Who Are Blind or Severely Disabled, are sharing in Federal contracts; (3) A means of measuring and assessing the effect of Federal contracting for promoting sustainable technologies, materi…
  • FAR 4.1901 Definitions.
    … set of information resources organized for the collection, processing, maintenance, use, sharing, dissemination, or disposition of information (44 U.S.C. 3502). Safeguarding means measures or controls that are prescribed to protect inform…
  • FAR 15.407-2 Make-or-buy programs.
    …er supplies and services if— (i) The contract is a cost-reimbursable contract, or a cost-sharing contract in which the contractor's share of the cost is less than 25 percent; and (ii) The contracting officer determines that technical or c…
  • FAR 16.401 General.
    …g) Incentive- and Award-Fee Best Practices. Each agency head shall provide mechanisms for sharing proven incentive strategies for the acquisition of different types of products and services among contracting and program management officials…
  • FAR 27.408 Cosponsored research and development activities.
    …ire the contractor to make substantial contributions of funds or resources (e.g., by cost-sharing or by repayment of nonrecurring costs), and the contractor's and the Government's respective contributions to any item, component, process, or…
  • 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 32.503-6 Suspension or reduction of payments.
    … (3) Determinations of delinquency in making contributions under employee pension, profit sharing, or stock ownership plans, and exclusion of costs for such contributions from progress payment requests, shall be in accordance with paragraph…
  • 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 52.204-21 Basic Safeguarding of Covered Contractor Information Systems.
    … set of information resources organized for the collection, processing, maintenance, use, sharing, dissemination, or disposition of information (44 U.S.C. 3502). Safeguarding means measures or controls that are prescribed to protect inform…
  • FAR 52.204-25 Prohibition on Contracting for Certain Telecommunications and Video Surveillance Services or Equipment.
    …connection of a customer of telephone provider A to a customer of telephone company B) or sharing data and other information resources. Reasonable inquiry means an inquiry designed to uncover any information in the entity's possession abou…
  • 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…
  • DFARS 204.7301 Definitions.
    … set of information resources organized for the collection, processing, maintenance, use, sharing, dissemination, or disposition of information. Media means physical devices or writing surfaces including, but not limited to, magnetic tapes…
  • DFARS 227.7203-5 Government rights.
    … software, consider the planned software maintenance philosophy, anticipated time or user sharing requirements, and other factors which may have relevance for a particular procurement. If negotiating to relinquish rights in computer softwar…
  • DFARS 252.204-7009 Limitations on the Use or Disclosure of Third-Party Contractor Reported Cyber Incident Information.
    … set of information resources organized for the collection, processing, maintenance, use, sharing, dissemination, or disposition of information. Media means physical devices or writing surfaces including, but is not limited to, magnetic ta…
  • DFARS 252.204-7012 Safeguarding Covered Defense Information and Cyber Incident Reporting.
    … set of information resources organized for the collection, processing, maintenance, use, sharing, dissemination, or disposition of information. Malicious software means computer software or firmware intended to perform an unauthorized pro…
  • DFARS 252.204-7019 Notice of NIST SP 800-171 DoD Assessment Requirements.
    …cted, in accordance with the standards set forth in DoD Instruction 5000.79, Defense-wide Sharing and Use of Supplier and Product Performance Information (PI). (ii) Authorized representatives of the Offeror for which the assessment was con…
  • DFARS 252.204-7020 NIST SP 800-171 DoD Assessment Requirements.
    …cted, in accordance with the standards set forth in DoD Instruction 5000.79, Defense-wide Sharing and Use of Supplier and Product Performance Information (PI). (2) Authorized representatives of the Contractor for which the assessment was c…
  • DFARS 252.239-7010 Cloud Computing Services.
    … set of information resources organized for the collection, processing, maintenance, use, sharing, dissemination, or disposition of information. Media means physical devices or writing surfaces including, but not limited to, magnetic tapes…

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.