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B-159724 1 (1973-01-20)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaagdn0001 and id is 1 raw text is: UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE / WASHINGTON, D.C. 205-48 1L L,\Wd [ i P PROCU MM.CT AND S'rSTMS LM096324 ACQUISITION DIVISION B-159724 ' •'. . ... The Honorable The Secretary of Defense Attention: Assistant Secretary of Defense (Comptroller) Dear Mr. Secretary: 3TST YP.T .1E We completed a selective examination of subcontract estimates included in prime contract prices negotiated on the basis of cost or pricing data subniitted and certified as re- quired by Public Law 87-653, the Truth-In-Negotiations Act.' Effective 'January 1, 1970, contracting officials were re- quired to have prime contractors who submit cost or pricing data with their prop-osals obtain cost or pricing data from prospective subcontractors in support of major subcontract estimates. ,'We wanted to find out whether contracting offi- cials had requirod prime contractors (1) to support major . subcontract estimates with subcontractor cost or pricing data, (2) to fully justify requests for exemption from the requireent to furnish such data, and (3) to make a cost b analysis of subcontractors' proposals and to use this infor- mation in evaluating the reasonableness of subcontract esti- mates. We performed tho exanination at five procurement of- fices selecto 3 bedcause zfhhyld awarded a significant nu,.e ' of h , hvalu- contracts during the first half of fiscal year 1972. ,, ev rl_ sj'_conti''ut estirates, valuel az about $177 r.i -,, inciud- _.n t.c arizes of -0 pr ,- c),-, c valu. d a-t a o'- 1 c nin The procurement offices re- S:(}:-'-'F[' or >:e -j; :',_:= a>,: cac0 DrIz: COntr&Ct2 rov.,'wi ' are i, i- : ! - ci o to this rCpor-c II the maority of cases, contracting officers did not require tho contractors to subm-it or identify supporting subcontractor cost or pricing data to the extent required by the Armed Services Procurement Regulai;on (ASPR). Other

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