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Initially, TINA only applied to the Department of Defense, the Coast Guard, and NASA. Certified cost or pricing data may not be obtained for acquisitions at or below the simplified acquisition threshold. [3] Other exceptions are stated in FAR 15.403-1(b) or may be adopted under a waiver requested by the contracting officer in exceptional ...
The Analysis of Alternatives (AoA) in the United States is a requirement of military acquisition policy, as controlled by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and the United States Department of Defense (DoD). It ensures that at least three feasible alternatives are analyzed prior to making costly investment decisions. [1]
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 ...
As the post-WW2 space programs developed, general research costs came to be seen as ordinary costs of doing business, and in 1959 they were allowed as indirect costs. [36] [37] The 1970 defense appropriations act temporarily limited the funding for the first time, due to concerns about adequate contract administration and benefits for the ...
Guide to Contract Pricing: Cost and Price Analysis for Contractors, Subcontractors, and Government Agencies. Management Concepts. ISBN 1-56726-153-1. Oyer, Darrell J. (2005). Pricing and Cost Accounting: A Handbook for Government Contractors (2nd ed.). Management Concepts. ISBN 1-56726-164-7.
The contract directed AMS to build the Standard Procurement System through an incremental process on top of the company's existing Procurement Desktop - Defense (PD 2) application. [1] SPS is one of the first DoD software acquisitions using Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Part 12 - Acquisition of Commercial Items rules. [2]
The postholder, as chartered under United States Department of Defense Directive 5141.1 in 1996 (subsequently superseded and canceled with the publication of United States Department of Defense Directive 5105.84, Director of Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation (DCAPE)), [1] provides independent analytic advice to the Secretary of Defense on ...
Performance-based logistics (PBL), also known as performance-based life-cycle product support, [1] is a defense acquisition strategy for cost-effective weapon system support which has been adopted in particular by the United States Department of Defense.