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32 sections with “total final negotiated cost”

  • 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 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 52.216-16 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 52.246-2 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…
  • 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 15.403-4 Requiring certified cost or pricing data (10 U.S.C. chapter 271 and 41 U.S.C. chapter 35).
    … same modification. Negotiated final pricing actions (such as termination settlements and total final price agreements for fixed-price incentive and redeterminable contracts) are contract modifications requiring certified cost or pricing da…
  • 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 52.216-5 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 52.216-10 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 52.219-9 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 52.232-7 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 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 17.106-1 General.
    …ion to the remaining requirements subject to cancellation. For example, consider that the total nonrecurring costs (see 15.408, Table 15-2, III. Formats for Submission of Line Item Summaries C(8)) are estimated at 10 percent of the total mu…
  • FAR 49.303-4 Adjustment of indirect costs.
    …l eliminate the indirect cost and the related direct costs on which it was based from the total pool and base used to compute indirect costs for other contracts performed during the applicable accounting period.
  • FAR 49.603-3 Cost-reimbursement contracts—complete termination, if settlement includes cost.
    …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 complete and final settlement of the contract. (ii) Further, the Government agrees to pay to the …
  • 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…
  • FAR 52.246-19 Warranty of Systems and Equipment under Performance Specifications or Design Criteria.
    … by the Contractor in complying with this clause shall be considered when negotiating the total final price under the Incentive Price Revision clause of this contract. After establishment of the total final price, Contractor compliance with…
  • 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…
  • DFARS 252.219-7004 Small Business Subcontracting Plan (Test Program).
    …tion, salvage, modernization, or modification of supplies, systems, or equipment, and the total value of the contract, including options, exceeds $100 million; and (D) Military department. (iii) Total number of subcontracts active under t…
  • 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 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 32.1004 Procedures.
    …ract modification shall adjust the performance-based payment schedule appropriately. (2) Total performance-based payments shall— (i) Reflect prudent contract financing provided only to the extent needed for contract performance (see 32.10…
  • FAR 48.104-2 Sharing acquisition savings.
    … of this section) of any net acquisition savings. Net acquisition savings result when the total of acquisition savings becomes greater than the total of Government costs and any negative instant contract savings. This may occur on the insta…
  • FAR 15.405 Price negotiation.
    …ent and should balance the contract type, cost, and profit or fee negotiated to achieve a total result—a price that is fair and reasonable to both the Government and the contractor. (c) The Government's cost objective and proposed pricing …
  • FAR 31.205-11 Depreciation.
    …(but, see 31.109(h)(2)). In determining the charge, consideration shall be given to cost, total estimated useful life at the time of negotiations, effect of any increased maintenance charges or decreased efficiency due to age, and the amoun…
  • FAR 42.302 Contract administration functions.
    … will be taken only upon the written request of the contractor and, in no event shall the total downward contract price adjustment resulting from an inconsequential delivery shortage exceed $250.00 or 5 percent of the contract price, whiche…
  • 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 52.248-1 Value Engineering.
    …ltiplied by the number of instant contract units affected. Net acquisition savings means total acquisition savings, including instant, concurrent, and future contract savings, less Government costs. Sharing base, as used in this clause, m…
  • DFARS 252.245-7005 Management and Reporting of Government Property.
    …l property. Methods and degree range from removal and destruction of critical features to total destruction by cutting, tearing, crushing, mangling, shredding, melting, burning, etc. Export-controlled items has the meaning given in the Def…

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.