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48 CFR · Federal Acquisition Regulation and Defense supplement

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74 sections with “total fee”: the first 40

  • FAR 16.405-1 Cost-plus-incentive-fee contracts.
    …e initially negotiated fee to be adjusted later by a formula based on the relationship of total allowable costs to total target costs. This contract type specifies a target cost, a target fee, minimum and maximum fees, and a fee adjustment …
  • FAR 52.216-10 Incentive Fee.
    …provided that the Contracting Officer withholds a reserve not to exceed 15 percent of the total incentive fee or $100,000, whichever is less, to protect the Government's interest. The Contracting Officer shall release 75 percent of all fee …
  • 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 52.249-6 Termination (Cost-Reimbursement).
    …als, less previous payments for fee. (ii) If the contract is terminated for default, the total fee payable shall be such proportionate part of the fee as the total number of articles (or amount of services) delivered to and accepted by the…
  • DFARS 236.606-70 Statutory fee limitation.
    …1) Work not initially included in the contract; apply the 10 percent limit to the revised total estimated construction cost; and (2) Redesign work; apply the 10 percent limit by— (i) Adding the estimated construction cost of the redesign …
  • 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 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 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 16.304 Cost-plus-incentive-fee contracts.
    …n initially negotiated fee to be adjusted later by a formula based on the relationship of total allowable costs to total target costs. Cost-plus-incentive-fee contracts are covered in subpart 16.4, Incentive Contracts. See 16.405-1 for a mo…
  • FAR 19.704 Subcontracting plan requirements.
    …ribes) and women-owned small business concerns as subcontractors; (2) A statement of the total dollars planned to be subcontracted and a statement of the total dollars planned to be subcontracted to small business (including ANCs and India…
  • 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…
  • 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 52.216-11 Cost Contract—No Fee.
    …he Contractor a fee for performing this contract. (b) After payment of 80 percent of the total estimated cost shown in the Schedule, the Contracting Officer may withhold further payment of allowable cost until a reserve is set aside in an …
  • FAR 52.216-12 Cost-Sharing Contract—No Fee.
    …r performing this contract. (b) After paying 80 percent of the Government's share of the total estimated cost of performance shown in the Schedule, the Contracting Officer may withhold further payment of allowable cost until a reserve is s…
  • FAR 52.219-9 Small Business Subcontracting Plan.
    …alling for supplies or services required for performance of the contract or subcontract. Total contract dollars means the final anticipated dollar value, including the dollar value of all options. Untimely payment means a payment to a sub…
  • FAR 52.230-6 Administration of Cost Accounting Standards.
    …-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 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 52.232-22 Limitation of Funds.
    …r agrees to perform, or have performed, work on the contract up to the point at which the total amount paid and payable by the Government under the contract approximates but does not exceed the total amount actually allotted by the Governme…
  • 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…
  • 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 5.205 Special situations.
    …ficers must transmit to the GPE a synopsis of each proposed contract action for which the total fee (including phases and options) is expected to exceed $25,000. (2) When the total fee is expected to exceed $20,000 but not exceed $25,000, …
  • FAR 31.001 Definitions.
    …d units to the cost of the units of inventory on hand and dividing this figure by the new total number of units. Nonqualified pension plan means any pension plan other than a qualified pension plan as defined in this part. Normal cost mea…
  • FAR 49.305-2 Construction contracts.
    (a) The percentage of completion basis refers to the contractor's total effort and not solely to the actual construction work. Generally, the effort of a contractor under a cost-reimbursement construction or professional services contract c…
  • FAR 52.215-22 Limitations on Pass-Through Charges—Identification of Subcontract Effort.
    … by the Contractor or a subcontractor. (1) The offeror shall identify in its proposal the total cost of the work to be performed by the offeror, and the total cost of the work to be performed by each subcontractor, under the contract, task …
  • FAR 52.216-8 Fixed Fee.
    …provided that the Contracting Officer withholds a reserve not to exceed 15 percent of the total fixed fee or $100,000, whichever is less, to protect the Government's interest. The Contracting Officer shall release 75 percent of all fee with…
  • FAR 52.216-9 Fixed Fee—Construction.
    …ow. (c) The Contracting Officer shall withhold a reserve not to exceed 15 percent of the total fixed fee or $100,000, whichever is less, to protect the Government's interest. The Contracting Officer shall release 75 percent of all fee with…
  • 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 216.405-2 Cost-plus-award-fee contracts.
    (1) Award-fee pool. The award-fee pool is the total available award fee for each evaluation period for the life of the contract. The contracting officer shall perform an analysis of appropriate fee distribution to ensure at least 40 percent…
  • FAR 49.112-1 Partial payments.
    …perty, the costs of which are included in the application for payment. (f) Limitation on total amount. The total amount of all partial payments shall not exceed the amount that will, in the opinion of the TCO, become due to the contractor …
  • FAR 49.403 Termination of cost-reimbursement contracts for default.
    …contractor is reimbursed the allowable costs, and an appropriate reduction is made in the total fee, if any, (see subparagraph (h)(4) of the clause). (c) The contracting officer shall use the procedures in 49.402 to the extent appropriate …
  • FAR 52.227-6 Royalty Information.
    …royalties. When the response to this solicitation contains costs or charges for royalties totaling more than $250, the following information shall be included in the response relating to each separate item of royalty or license fee: (1) Na…
  • FAR 52.232-12 Advance Payments.
    …act, or for borrowings; (13) Make or covenant for capital expenditures exceeding $___ in total; (14) Permit its net current assets, computed in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, to become less than $___; or (15) M…
  • FAR 52.232-20 Limitation of Cost.
    …rred, will exceed 75 percent of the estimated cost specified in the Schedule; or (2) The total cost for the performance of this contract, exclusive of any fee, will be either greater or substantially less than had been previously estimated…
  • DFARS 252.247-7023 Transportation of Supplies by Sea.
    …) Description of commodity; (8) Gross weight in pounds and cubic feet if available; (9) Total ocean freight in U.S. dollars; and (10) Name of the carrier. (g) If this contract exceeds the simplified acquisition threshold, the Contractor…
  • FAR 4.1005-1 Required data elements.
    …i) For fixed-price line items: (A) Unit of measure. (B) Quantity. (C) Unit price. (D) Total price. (ii) For cost-reimbursement line items: (A) Unit of measure. (B) Quantity. (C) Estimated cost. (D) Fee (if any). (E) Total estimate…
  • FAR 15.404-1 Proposal analysis techniques.
    …ayment of unreasonably high prices. Unbalanced pricing exists when, despite an acceptable total evaluated price, the price of one or more line items is significantly over or understated as indicated by the application of cost or price analy…
  • FAR 17.802 Policy.
    …overnment at the close of an auction. The Government then pays the successful offeror the total price of the offer, which includes the fee(s) added by the reverse auction service provider. The reverse auction service provider then collects …
  • FAR 31.205-35 Relocation costs.
    …or newly recruited employees who were not homeowners before the relocation; and (ii) The total costs shall not exceed 5 percent of the purchase price of the new home. (7) Mortgage interest differential payments, except that these costs ar…
  • FAR 44.201-2 Advance notification requirements.
    …ract that exceeds the greater of the simplified acquisition threshold or 5 percent of the total estimated cost of the contract. (b) For civilian agencies other than the Coast Guard and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, eve…

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.