Guide to Contract Pricing: Cost and Price Analysis for Contractors, Subcontractors, and Government Agencies, Third Edition

This master reference -- now in its 3rd edition -- puts everything you need to know about government pricing rules and regulations in one easy-to-use volume. Guide to Contract Pricing will help you learn how the government does business and help you perform every step of the contracting process successfully. You'll ...

• Master the steps of the sealed bid process
  
• Improve your skills at evaluating bids, proposals, and quotations
  
• Perfect your ability to analyze direct and indirect labor costs
  
• Grasp the fine points of GSA's structured profits guidelines
  
• Discover how to determine the current cost-of-money rate

... to improve your chances for securing a fair and reasonable price ... or profit!

Take the worry and guesswork out of the contracting process. This practical reference offers valuable insight and specific guidelines so you'll know:

• How to forecast the likely price of an acquisition
  
• How to calculate semi-variable costs
  
• How to allocate direct costs
  
• When cost accounting standards do – and don't – apply
  
• How to certify cost or pricing data
  
• How to estimate labor hours based on standards
  
• What factors to consider in analyzing an engineering labor proposal
  
• How to validate unit prices
  
• When to allocate overhead cost on material rather than labor
  
• How different allocation bases affect cost
  
• The two-step method for analyzing G&A rates
  
• Principles of structured profit guidelines
  
• Allowable profit adjustments for cost-reimbursement and fixed-price contracts

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