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I understand your position that this posting is without specifics. I really am just wondering if anyone else has ever funded a time and materials task order by funding a requisitions for each CR date. We used to do it for the full performance period and put the FAR 52.232-19 clause with the funding limitations. Now the Finance folks want the program fold to create a req for each CR date, so essentially we are funding by each new CR date, which seems backwards to me if we know what essentially our funding level for the whole FY based on FY11 CR. I apologize that I am asking a general question, but I just would like some CR fundiong advice and I thought that I could ask here and find someone who would share their experience..

I understand your position that this posting is without specifics. I really am just wondering if anyone else has ever funded a time and materials task order by funding a requisitions for each CR date. We used to do it for the full performance period and put the FAR 52.232-19 clause with the funding limitations. Now the Finance folks want the program fold to create a req for each CR date, so essentially we are funding by each new CR date, which seems backwards to me if we know what essentially our funding level for the whole FY based on FY11 CR. I apologize that I am asking a general question, but I just would like some CR fundiong advice and I thought that I could ask here and find someone who would share their experience..

I understand your position that this posting is without specifics. I really am just wondering if anyone else has ever funded a time and materials task order by funding a requisitions for each CR date. We used to do it for the full performance period and put the FAR 52.232-19 clause with the funding limitations. Now the Finance folks want the program fold to create a req for each CR date, so essentially we are funding by each new CR date, which seems backwards to me if we know what essentially our funding level for the whole FY based on FY11 CR. I apologize that I am asking a general question, but I just would like some CR fundiong advice and I thought that I could ask here and find someone who would share their experience..

I understand your position that this posting is without specifics. I really am just wondering if anyone else has ever funded a time and materials task order by funding a requisitions for each CR date. We used to do it for the full performance period and put the FAR 52.232-19 clause with the funding limitations. Now the Finance folks want the program fold to create a req for each CR date, so essentially we are funding by each new CR date, which seems backwards to me if we know what essentially our funding level for the whole FY based on FY11 CR. I apologize that I am asking a general question, but I just would like some CR fundiong advice and I thought that I could ask here and find someone who would share their experience..

Please help - My Program office is creating FY12 Requisitions to fund a Time and Materials task order that is based on the date of the CR. They have received direction from management that this is the way to fund a task order for a contract that has the period of performance into next year. I believe that all that is required is that the requisition be funded for the period of performance, and that the FAR clause 52.232-19 needs to be added and modified to cap the availbility of funds at the level based on the CR date. Our Finance Division believes this is the only way to certify that funds are truly available and supports this approach. Our Agency gets funded for this task order from another Agency. We do not know what the 'annual' funding figure is yet (we are still operating under the FY11 levels) and I am told that the other agency only transfers the amount available under the CR.. Can you please provide funding policy guidance for this situation, so I can share this information with the Program and Finance folks? Thank you!!!

Our agency awarded 12 service contracts (all FFP/T&M/ IDIQ contracts) from one solicitation. These awards are under protest and until the protest is resolved, we need to continue services. We have exhausted the 52.217-8 option to extend services already in 8 of our contracts, and they will expire September 30. We plan to issue 8 emergency sole source, bridge awards to get through the protest resolution, using an urgent and compelling in the J&A. Can we post one solicitation again with intent to make multiple sole source awards to incumbents (3 vendors, 8 awards) in light of the new rules implemented section 863 of the Duncan Hunter National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2009?

Hi Vern - Thanks for answering. I realize I may have not explained this clearly.. The vendor provided these services starting in 2008 through 2010. The CO did state they were going to establish a separate rate for night differential hours, but that never happened over the course of 2 years, why I do not know as the CO is gone and there is no documentation in the file. There have been SCA price adjustments to the base rate, but the night differential rate was never added to the contract or task order. The vendor originally supplied a proposed rate with their proposal for night differential in 2008, but their recent 2011 submitted revision is quite higher (based on their actual costs: overhead etc). I just wanted to verify that they can add the CBA night differential amount (~5% of the WD/CBA rate) and then add about 50% finge pool, 5% G & A, and then their profit to get a loaded night differential..They said they would then just invoice us for the 5% CBA Night Diff + loaded 'actual' costs time the # hours of night shifts worked..

Yes, this is covered by the SCA and the WDs based on the CBAs are incorporated into the signed award..The vendor is trying to claim for the night differential + all other costs, as it was not loaded into their base rate as is ususally the case..

I have a T&M contract that has CBAs which include a night differential premium. When this contract was in the RFP stage, the CO said that the night differential would be issued on a Task Order as a separate rate. Howver, that was never done and the contract was awarded to the vendor using the base rate, without the night differential included. In most other T&M contracts for the same services, the night differential from CBAs is 'loaded' into the base rate, based on the expected # of hours that will be worked duuting the night. This vendor has had price adjustments on their base rate under the SCA, but they want to claim all of the night differential costs that was never separately issued on Task Order, but was worked as part of a block of hours. The vendor has come in with a very loaded Night Differential rate. ie they took the CBA amount and then tacked on their G&A, profit, overhead, Fringe Pool, etc..It comes out to about 160% of the CBA amount. I told the SCA forbids adjustments that include those elements but they are claiming this is not an inflationary adjustment but just a claim for equitable adjustment. Is this allowable?