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  1. You wouldn't do fixed prices at the "contract level", drill down further in FAR 12.207. The IDIQ is the master vehicle under which you would execute task orders that would allow you to use the exception in FAR 12.207( B )(1)(i)© to use T&M/LH pricing types which are cost reimbursement mechanisms. Remember that the exception applies to a "multiple award delivery order contract" so it implies that you would have to have more than one awardee. In addition, you also have contract documentation and other special requirements applicable to IDIQ contracts for commerical item procurements such as ceiling prices et cetera as seet forth in that section to consider. HOWEVER, if you are DoD, the DFARS limits what T&M/LH services you can acquire for support of commerical items. See DFARS 212.207 Out of curiosity, you mention you're acquiring "lab assistance, scientific data analysis, and other general laboratory work", are you funding this with O&M or are you RDT&E funded? Have you looked at whether this is Part 12 at all or should you be looking at Part 35? Bill
  2. We intend to make the call at our level Joel but I don't want to elevate it to major command level on our issue just yet until we exhaust a few more resources. Just throwing it out to see if anyone has opinions on the blog, like chumming the water to see if we get anything interesting. As for requesting a GAO opinion, I think I'd rather call fire danger close or play russian roulette than gamble that GAO will come out with some rational workable solution that can be used in the field. Bill
  3. I wish the GAO would have chimed in with better guidance since 2008. In any event, no pun intended, since their decision concerned event planning services and the "no-cost" really was a recapture of fees for conferences so there was a cost but it was indirect in that the registration fees were paid by TDY travellers and other costs etc were still born by the government. Our issue at the research facility I work at, is a program manager wants to accept a bunch of COTS software (which otherwise is available on the DoD enterprise service license and for which we would have to pay license fees for) directly from the vendor under a special license agreement, let's call it their "Techonolgy Demonstration Network", where our researchers provide feedback but we operationally use it day to day in our research for customers. The PM is basically backward planning, he has the result of wanting free software and will justify whatever it takes to get there. We (legal and contracting have told him no but he doesn't listen well). Question is, in light of the Palantir debacle with free software for Afghanistan, would this be an augmentation problem?
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