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24 sections with “total target cost”

  • 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 52.216-16 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 52.230-6 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 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 31.205-6 Compensation for personal services.
    … wages (but see paragraphs (g), (h), (j), (k), (m), and (o) of this subsection). (2) The total compensation for individual employees or job classes of employees must be reasonable for the work performed; however, specific restrictions on i…
  • 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 52.246-2 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 252.232-7007 Limitation of Government's obligation.
    …is/these item(s), the sum of $____ [Contracting Officer insert after negotiations] of the total price is presently available for payment and allotted to this contract. An allotment schedule is set forth in paragraph (j) of this clause. (b)…
  • 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 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 30.606 Resolving cost impacts.
    … of the cost impact based on the ratio of the cost impact of each Executive agency to the total cost impact. (3) For unilateral changes and noncompliances, the CFAO shall— (i) To the maximum extent practical, not adjust the price upward f…
  • 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…
  • 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…
  • DFARS 215.404-71-2 Performance risk.
    … process. (1) Assign a weight (percentage) to each element according to its input to the total performance risk. The total of the two weights equals 100 percent. (2) Select a value for each element from the list in paragraph (c) of this s…
  • 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 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 52.212-3 Offeror Representations and Certifications—Commercial Products and Commercial Services.
    …to this solicitation is predominantly— (1) □ In the United States (Check this box if the total anticipated price of offered end products manufactured in the United States exceeds the total anticipated price of offered end products manufact…
  • DFARS 215.404-71-4 Facilities capital employed.
    …ents the estimated contract facilities capital cost of money for the year's effort. (iv) Total contract facilities cost of money is the sum of the yearly amounts. (v) Since the facilities capital cost of money factors reflect the applicab…
  • FAR 16.401 General.
    …six months, nine months, twelve months, or at specific milestones); and (vii) Define the total award-fee pool amount and how this amount is allocated across each evaluation period. (4) Rollover of unearned award fee. The use of rollover o…
  • FAR 52.215-9 Changes or Additions to Make-or-Buy Program.
    … promptly negotiate with the Contracting Officer an equitable reduction in the contract's total estimated cost and fee in accordance with paragraph (e) of the Incentive Fee clause of this contract.
  • 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 252.219-7010 Notification of Competition Limited to Eligible 8(a) Participants—Partnership Agreement
    …y. (2) When the end item being acquired is a kit of supplies, at least 50 percent of the total cost of the components of the kit shall be manufactured, processed, or produced by small businesses in the United States or its outlying areas. …

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.