48 CFR · Federal Acquisition Regulation and Defense supplement

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191 sections with “total contract price”: the first 40

  • FAR 15.408 Solicitation provisions and contract clauses.
    … delivery orders as follows: (A) For civilian agencies, insert the clause when— (1) The total estimated contract or order value exceeds the simplified acquisition threshold as defined in section 2.101 and (2) The contemplated contract ty…
  • FAR 52.216-5 Price Redetermination—Prospective.
    …ause: Price Redetermination—Prospective (JAN 2022) (a) General. The unit prices and the total price stated in this contract shall be periodically redetermined in accordance with this clause, except that (1) the prices for supplies deliver…
  • FAR 52.216-6 Price Redetermination—Retroactive.
    …lause: Price Redetermination—Retroactive (JAN 2022) (a) General. The unit price and the total price stated in this contract shall be redetermined in accordance with this clause, but in no event shall the total amount paid under this contr…
  • FAR 52.216-16 Incentive Price Revision—Firm Target.
    …ct to price revision in accordance with this clause; provided, that in no event shall the total final price of these items exceed the ceiling price of ___ dollars ($___). Any supplies or services that are to be (1) ordered separately under,…
  • FAR 52.216-17 Incentive Price Revision—Successive Targets.
    …ct to price revision in accordance with this clause; provided, that in no event shall the total final price of these items exceed the ceiling price of ___ dollars ($___). The prices of these items shown in the Schedule are the initial targe…
  • FAR 52.249-2 Termination for Convenience of the Government (Fixed-Price).
    …lause, exclusive of costs shown in subparagraph (g)(3) of this clause, may not exceed the total contract price as reduced by (1) the amount of payments previously made and (2) the contract price of work not terminated. The contract shall be…
  • FAR 16.204 Fixed-price incentive contracts.
    …shing the final contract price by a formula based on the relationship of final negotiated total cost to total target cost. Fixed-price incentive contracts are covered in subpart 16.4, Incentive Contracts. See 16.403 for more complete descri…
  • FAR 16.403 Fixed-price incentive contracts.
    …lishing the final contract price by application of a formula based on the relationship of total final negotiated cost to total target cost. The final price is subject to a price ceiling, negotiated at the outset. The two forms of fixed-pric…
  • FAR 19.705-7 Compliance with the subcontracting plan.
    …ith effort to comply with its subcontracting plan, a contracting officer must look to the totality of the contractor's actions, consistent with the information and assurances provided in its plan. The fact that the contractor failed to meet…
  • FAR 31.102 Fixed-price contracts.
    …nt to negotiate agreements on individual elements of cost in arriving at agreement on the total price. The final price accepted by the parties reflects agreement only on the total price. Further, notwithstanding the mandatory use of cost pr…
  • FAR 46.707 Pricing aspects of fixed-price incentive contract warranties.
    …y the contractor in complying with the warranty shall be considered when establishing the total final price. Contractor compliance with the warranty after the establishment of the total final price shall be at no additional cost to the Gove…
  • FAR 49.603-1 Fixed-price contracts—complete termination.
    …o paragraph (7) below, to retain this sum and agrees that it constitutes a portion of the total amount to which the Contractor is entitled in settlement of the contract. (ii) Further, the Government agrees to pay to the Contractor or its a…
  • FAR 52.212-4 Contract Terms and Conditions—Commercial Products and Commercial Services.
    …s and payment schedule or, if no reimbursement for indirect costs, insert ‘None’).”] (2) Total cost. It is estimated that the total cost to the Government for the performance of this contract shall not exceed the ceiling price set forth in…
  • FAR 52.232-7 Payments under Time-and-Materials and Labor-Hour Contracts.
    …re a withhold of 5 percent of the amounts due under paragraph (a) of this clause, but the total amount withheld for the contract shall not exceed $50,000. The amounts withheld shall be retained until the Contractor executes and delivers the…
  • FAR 52.246-2 Inspection of Supplies—Fixed-Price.
    …replacement, or correction shall be considered a cost incurred, or to be incurred, in the total final negotiated cost fixed under the incentive price revision clause. However, replacements or corrections by the Contractor after the establis…
  • DFARS 215.404-71-3 Contract type risk and working capital adjustment.
    …) and (2)(ii), respectively for Blocks 24a and 24b. Add Blocks 24a and 24b and insert the totals in Block 24c. (4) Only complete this block when the prospective contract is a fixed-price contract containing provisions for progress payments…
  • FAR 36.207 Pricing fixed-price construction contracts.
    …construction. They may be priced (1) on a lump-sum basis (when a lump sum is paid for the total work or defined parts of the work), (2) on a unit-price basis (when a unit price is paid for a specified quantity of work units), or (3) using a…
  • FAR 49.203 Adjustment for loss.
    …s on an inventory basis (see 49.206-2(a)), the contractor shall not be paid more than the total of the amounts in subparagraphs (1), (2), and (3) below, less all disposal credits and all unliquidated advance and progress payments previously…
  • FAR 49.603-2 Fixed-price contracts—partial termination.
    …item numbers, (ii) descriptions, (iii) quantity terminated, (iv) unit price of items, (v) total price of terminated items, and (vi) any other explanation necessary to avoid uncertainty or misunderstanding]. (2) The Contractor certifies tha…
  • FAR 52.203-10 Price or Fee Adjustment for Illegal or Improper Activity.
    … Government, at its election, may reduce the price of a fixed-price type contract and the total cost and fee under a cost-type contract by the amount of profit or fee determined as set forth in paragraph (b) of this clause if the head of th…
  • FAR 52.232-5 Payments Under Fixed-Price Construction Contracts.
    …uded for work performed by each subcontractor under the contract. (iii) A listing of the total amount of each subcontract under the contract. (iv) A listing of the amounts previously paid to each such subcontractor under the contract. (v…
  • FAR 52.232-16 Progress Payments.
    …ount, the Government will compute each progress payment as 80 percent of the Contractor's total costs incurred under this contract whether or not actually paid, plus financing payments to subcontractors (see paragraph (j) of this clause), l…
  • FAR 52.244-2 Subcontracts.
    … threshold, as defined in FAR 2.101 on the date of subcontract award, or 5 percent of the total estimated cost of the contract; or (ii) For a contract awarded by a civilian agency other than the Coast Guard and the National Aeronautics and…
  • DFARS 232.704-70 Incrementally funded fixed-price contracts.
    …on of Government's Obligation, sufficient funds are allotted to the contract to cover the total amount payable to the contractor in the event of termination for the convenience of the Government.
  • DFARS 252.246-7001 Warranty of data.
    … subcontractor, the limit of the Contractor's liability shall be— (A) Ten percent of the total subcontract price in a firm-fixed-price subcontract; (B) Seventy-five percent of the total subcontract fee in a cost-plus-fixed-fee or cost-plu…
  • FAR 52.216-4 Economic Price Adjustment—Labor and Material.
    …material which would not result in a net change of at least 3 percent of the then-current total contract price. This limitation shall not apply, however, if, after final delivery of all line items, either party requests an adjustment under …
  • FAR 52.249-3 Termination for Convenience of the Government (Dismantling, Demolition, or Removal of Improvements).
    …ph (f) or paragraph (g) of this clause, exclusive of settlement costs, may not exceed the total contract price as reduced by (1) the amount of payments previously made and (2) the contract price of work not terminated. The contract shall be…
  • DFARS 216.203-4 Contract clauses.
    …lies, and FAR 52.216-4, Economic Price Adjustment—Labor and Material, only when— (i) The total contract price exceeds the simplified acquisition threshold; and (ii) Delivery or performance will not be completed within 6 months after contr…
  • DFARS 249.7000 Terminated contracts with Canadian Commercial Corporation.
    …and ratification of the TCO. However, when the proposed negotiated settlement exceeds the total contract price of the prime contract, the TCO shall obtain from the U.S. contracting officer prior to final settlement— (i) Ratification of the…
  • DFARS 252.216-7001 Economic Price Adjustment-Nonstandard Steel Items.
    …s otherwise specified in this contract, the labor index shall be computed by dividing the total straight time earnings of the Contractor's employees in the shop identified in paragraph (a) for any given month by the total number of straight…
  • FAR 2.101 Definitions.
    …ral agency under two or more separate contracts, each of which was lower in cost than the total cost of the contract for which offers are solicited; or (ii) Requirements of the Federal agency for construction projects to be performed at tw…
  • FAR 4.1005-2 Exceptions.
    …ntracts may omit the quantity at the line item level for the base award provided that the total contract minimum and maximum, or the estimate, respectively, is stated. (ii) Multiple-award IDIQ contracts awarded using the procedures at 13.1…
  • FAR 4.1703 Reporting requirements.
    …ontracts and first-tier subcontracts for services based on type of contract and estimated total value. For indefinite-delivery contracts, reporting shall be determined based on the type and estimated total value of each order under the cont…
  • FAR 11.701 Supply contracts.
    …2.211-17, Delivery of Excess Quantities, to provide that— (1) Excess quantities of items totaling up to $250 in value may be retained without compensating the contractor; and (2) Excess quantities of items totaling over $250 in value may,…
  • FAR 15.404-4 Profit.
    …represent net income to contractors. Rather, they represent that element of the potential total remuneration that contractors may receive for contract performance over and above allowable costs. This potential remuneration element and the G…
  • FAR 16.504 Indefinite-quantity contracts.
    …iod for which the Government may extend the contract under each option; (ii) Specify the total minimum and maximum quantity of supplies or services the Government will acquire under the contract; (iii) Include a statement of work, specifi…
  • FAR 19.501 General.
    …(3). A small business set-aside of a single acquisition or a class of acquisitions may be total or partial. (2) The purpose of small business reserves is to award one or more multiple-award contracts to any of the small business concerns i…
  • FAR 19.507 Solicitation provisions and contract clauses.
    …b) [Reserved] (c) The contracting officer shall insert the clause at 52.219-6, Notice of Total Small Business Set-Aside, in solicitations and contracts involving total small business set-asides. This includes multiple-award contracts when …
  • FAR 30.604 Processing changes to disclosed or established cost accounting practices.
    …-covered contracts and subcontracts. (ii) The change in indirect rates multiplied by the total estimated base computed for each of the following groups: (A) Fixed-price contracts and subcontracts. (B) Flexibly-priced contracts and subcon…
  • FAR 30.605 Processing noncompliances.
    …and subcontracts. (iii) Any other method that provides a reasonable approximation of the total increase or decrease in contract and subcontract prices and cost accumulations; (3) The contractor may submit a DCI proposal in lieu of a GDM p…

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