DeniseH

11 minutes ago, joel hoffman said:

While I have some ideas, you should ask the contractor what those costs are, why they are included and require it to justify the amounts for each. Some construction companies direct charge some home office expenses, like a dedicated project manager or direct support to the jobsite that isnt on the jobsite. I doubt that an 8 ( a )  construction firm would have branch offices but they could have some off-site dedicated or partially dedicated staff or admin type support like schedulers and estimators.  

If this is the type of costs that they are distributing, you should make sure that such staff are removed from the overhead pools so that costs arent being double charged as direct and indirect.  You didnt explain if  those costs are charged across the proposal or only for certain activities.

I usually ask for information on the overhead and/or G&A overhead pools and the direct cost base used in the overhead calculations, especially if the contractor is direct charging non-jobsite costs out of other offices.

Thanks, Joel.  I do plan to talk with the Ctr, but I was hoping to get some kind of preliminary info about the concept before opening the conversation.  Like I said, I've not run into this before.

Thank you for your reply!

I've been in contracting quite a few years. (disclaimer).  I have a cost breakdown from an 8(a) contractor with additional lines I've not encountered before and am not familiar with.  Hoping you all can help.

This is a FFP negotiated construction proposal with an 8(a) firm.  Ctr has a column on the worksheet that says, "Distributed Bid"  and another column with "Distributed Direct".   These two are along with the usual quantity, unit price, total price, G&A, and Profit columns that you normally see.

I do not know what "Distributed Bid" or "Distributed Direct" mean.    Why would they be included?

Thanks!  I appreciate any and all responses!!

Awesome !  Thank you.

I should be able to find what I need.   Appreciate the input!

Greetings!  This is my first post.  Here's my situation and I'd like some feedback.

I have a supply purchase for over $1M.  It's full and open competition.  It is a commercial item.  I'd like to use the combined synopsis route.  However, in researching the Buy American Act and applicability, this purchase is subject to the WTO.  And in that section, Part 25.408, it says the CO must comply with advertising and response times.   That's where the 5.203(h) comes in.  I had not noticed this before.

In this part, 5.203, there is a sentence that says: However, if the acquisition falls within a general category identified in an annual forecast, the availability of which is published, the contracting officer may reduce this time period to as few as 10 days.

My question is:  Do agencies still do an annual forecast that is published somewhere?  Back in the days of CBD, we all had to publish an Advanced Acquisition Plan.  I haven't seen or heard of one in the past 6-8 years.

Looking forward to feedback.   Thanks!