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The authority under FAR Part 12, Commercial Items (and services), must be used thoughtfully and carefully. It is very tempting for a contracting officer to use FAR Part 12 and hence FAR Part 13 in situations where such use is clearly not appropriate in view of the basic reasons commercial item acquisition authority was created by Congress.
Terminations for commercial items (FAR Part 12) contracts are governed by FAR 52.212-4(l) and (m), not the T4C or T4D clauses of FAR 52.249-x. FAR Part 49 prescribes T4D and T4C clauses in FAR Part 52 for non-commercial items (FAR Part 12) related contracts. In particular, T4D is covered by FAR Subpart 49.4, Terminations for Default.
Guidance on how to fill in and handle DD Form 1423-1 is provided in publication 5010.12-M. Other US government agencies may include CDRLs in contracts, but these will not use the military's DD Form 1423. Most data items are developed and delivered in compliance with pre-defined data item descriptions (DID).
Unique Identification Marking, UID marking, Item Unique Identification or IUID, is a part of the compliance process mandated by the United States Department of Defense.It is a permanent marking method used to give equipment a unique ID.
The law was passed as part of the Deficit Reduction Act of 1984, P.L. 98-369, §§ 2701–2753, 98 Stat. 1175 (1984), and its competition requirements took effect on April 1, 1984. [1] The law defines a role for GAO to adjudicate "bid protests", which are claims that the government awarded a contract improperly.
[12] There are a number of basic rules regarding the Changes clause that have been developed by the courts and boards of contract appeals over the years. One of the fundamental tenets is that a contractor cannot claim an equitable adjustment where it incurs additional costs or performance delays voluntarily, rather than as a result of ...
In 1970, Congress established the original Cost Accounting Standards Board (CASB) to promulgate cost accounting standards designed to achieve uniformity and consistency in the cost accounting principles followed by defense contractors and subcontractors in excess of $100,000, and to establish regulations to require defense contractors and subcontractors, as a condition of contracting, to ...
Performance-based contracting is used in international development as part of output-based aid approaches. In this context, the approach is often referred to as results-based aid (where the funding relationship is between a donor and a recipient country) or results-based financing (where the funding relationship is between a developing country ...