PGI 245.1 - GENERAL    **Parent topic:** PGI Part 245 - GOVERNMENT PROPERTYPGI 245.102 RESERVED    PGI 245.102-70 Policy.       (1)  A basic principle of the Federal Acquisition Regulations System is that, upon contract award, contractors bring all the necessary organization, experience, accounting and operational controls, property, and technical skills, or the ability to obtain them (reference FAR 9.104-1 (e), (f), and (g) of General Standards).  Therefore, upon contract award, responsible contractors should have the means to provide effective and efficient stewardship of Government property.          (2)  Government property, as defined at FAR 45.101, must be contractually accountable to a single contract and only one contract at a time. This requirement applies to both Government-furnished property and contractor-acquired property.  Although accountable to only one contract at a time, contract terms and conditions may allow Government property to be used on other contracts (see FAR 52.245-9, Use and Charges).PGI 245.103 General.    PGI 245.103-70 Furnishing Government property to contractors.       (1)  The requiring activity (project or program manager, or purchase request generator), as part of its responsibility for acquisition planning (FAR part 7, Acquisition Planning), is the decision point as to whether or not to furnish property to contractors.  The basis for any decision to provide Government property shall be documented by the requiring activity and provided to the contracting officer.  Such documentation is not required when contractors are furnished property for repair, modification, or overhaul under a contract.          (2)  Prior to furnishing Government property to the contractor, the contracting officer shall ensure that each of the requirements of FAR 45.102 are addressed as follows, and documented in the contracting file—          (i) *Element 1: In the Government’s best interest.* Discussion should be specific, factual, and where necessary, address actual or projected dollars and percentages.  Merely selecting one or two objectives supported by a general, perfunctory discussion does not address this element satisfactorily.  Discussion should address the following factors:          (A) Economy – Furnishing Government property is the lowest cost or price alternative.          (B) Standardization – There is a critical need for precise replication.          (C) Security – Government property is needed due to national security issues/concerns.          (D) Expedite production – Government property is crucial to achieving timely or accelerated delivery of a supply item or service.          (E) Scarcity – The Government can obtain scarce items, or is the only source of property necessary for successful execution of a contract.          (F) Maintain the industrial base – Government property is needed to ensure future capability to obtain a particular supply item or service.          (G) Contract type – Government property will enable the Government to obtain a more favorable contract type.          (ii) *Element 2*:  *Overall benefit.*Demonstrate that the overall benefit to the acquisition significantly outweighs the increased cost of administration, including property disposal.          (A)  Property in the hands of contractors drives program costs.  Therefore, in order to make the case that providing Government property to the contractor is worthwhile, the associated costs must be considered and the business decision justified.  The costs of Government property removal and disposal, including demilitarization and disposal of environmentally-regulated property, must be included.          (B)  Costs must be either less than what the contractor might otherwise incur, or the demonstrated benefit to the Government must outweigh these additional contract costs.          (iii)  *Element 3:  Government assumption of risk.*  Demonstrate that providing the property does not substantially increase the Government’s risk.          (A)  Risk must be discussed and documented.  A risk analysis is warranted to demonstrate that the Government is not substantially increasing its risk.  For example, when furnishing Government property, the Government is ordinarily responsible for suitability of use, timely delivery, and replacement of defective Government property.          (B)  Other risks may need to be considered, discussed, and documented.          (iv)  *Element 4:  Government requirements cannot otherwise be met*.  Document why the furnishing of Government property is critical and significant to meeting acquisition plan objectives.PGI 245.103-71 Transferring Government property accountability.       (1) Use only the Standard Form 30 to execute transfers of Government property accountability between existing contracts. No other forms or documents, such as the DD Form 1149, Requisition and Invoice/Shipping Document, are authorized for the transfer of Government property accountability from one contract to another.          (2) Modifications for the transfer of Government property accountability shall:          (i) Use the Government-furnished property (GFP) attachment prescribed at PGI 245.103-72 .          (ii) Incorporate FAR clauses 52.245-1, Government Property, and 52.245-9, Use and Charges, and the associated DFARS clauses (see 245.107, Contract clauses) to the extent that the gaining contract lacks the required clauses.PGI 245.103-72 Government-furnished property attachments to solicitations and awards.       (a) When Government-furnished property (GFP) is anticipated, create the GFP attachment in the GFP module of the Procurement Integrated Enterprise Environment (PIEE) athttps://piee.eb.mil/piee-landing to—          (1) Specify the required GFP data elements; and          (2)  Identify GFP serially-managed items, GFP nonserially-managed items, and GFP items that may be requisitioned from the DoD supply system by the contractor; and          (3) Accomplish the electronic transmission of the GFP attachment to the contract in the Electronic Data Access application in the PIEE.          (b) For more information on the GFP attachments, see https://dodprocurementtoolbox.com/site-pages/gfp-attachments.]PGI 245.103-73 Government property under sustainment contracts.       (1) Sustainment contracts, including those for performance-based logistics, sustainment support, contractor logistics support, life-cycle product support, and weapon systems product support (see 10 U.S.C. 4324(d)), may require the contractor to hold or manage Government inventory. In such cases, regularly scheduled (typically, semiannually) inventory reporting from the contractor is required to ensure that inventory levels meet program requirements and Government inventory in excess of authorized amounts is identified. The requiring activity is responsible for providing the contracting officer with reporting requirements for Government inventory. See the Data Item Description DI-PSSS-80727A, Government Furnished Material (GFM) by National Stock Number, and the instructions for completing the DD Form 1423 Contract Data Requirements List (CDRL) for inventory reporting requirements on sustainment             contracts available at http://dodprocurementtoolbox.com/site-pages/gfp-resources.          (2)  During acquisition planning, pricing contracts, exercising options, and assessing past performance, contracting officers should review the requiring activity’s assessment of the information generated by the inventory reporting requirements.          (3) In some circumstances, under fixed-price sustainment contracts, contract deliverables consist of non-hardware items, such as operational readiness rate goals or mean time between failures of a system. In order to meet these deliverables, contractors are required to provide certain property items to the Government. In such cases, the contract does not include specific delivery line items requiring formal delivery of the property. By extension, the Government will not have title to the property at the time the contractor provides the property. In such cases, title to the property passes to the Government upon Government acceptance (as defined in FAR 46.101) of the items at the destination stated in the contract. Contracting officers shall ensure that the contract—          (i) Clearly defines how and when acceptance will be performed; and          (ii) Includes applicable requirements for quality assurance, part marking, anti-counterfeiting, or other requirement for the delivery of the property.PGI 245.103-74 Contracting office responsibilities.       (1) Prepare the GFP attachments in accordance with the procedures in PGI245.103 -72.          (2) The following require a contract modification and an update to the GFP attachment in the GFP module of the PIEE to create a consolidated, conformed list of property to be contractually provided under the contract.          (i) Any change to the mandatory fields of the GFP attachment (see PGI 245.103-72).          (ii) Addition or deletion of any GFP or anticipated GFP under the contract.          (iii) Transfer of GFP accountability between existing contracts (see PGI 245.103-71).          (iv) Delivery and Government acceptance of contractor-acquired property when retained by the contractor for use under a contract (see PGI 245.402-71).          (v) Substitution of GFP for previously furnished GFP, GFP to be furnished, or property to be acquired by the contractor for the Government under the contract.          (vi) Withdrawal of authority for contractor use of GFP.          (3) Include in applicable solicitations and contracts the CDRL provided by the requiring activity for reporting Government inventory held under sustainment contracts (see PGI 245.103-73 ).PGI 245.105 Contractors property management system compliance.       (d)  *Disposition of findings*.          (2)  *Initial determination*.          (ii)(A)  Within 10 days of receiving the report, if the contracting officer makes a determination that there is a significant deficiency, the contracting officer should provide an initial determination of deficiencies and a copy of the report to the contractor and require the contractor to submit a written response.          (C)  *Evaluation of contractor's response*.  Within 30 days of receiving the contractor’s response, the contracting officer, in consultation with the auditor or cognizant functional specialist, should evaluate the contractor’s response and make a final determination.          (3)  *Final Determination*.          (ii)(A)  *Monitoring contractor's corrective action*.  The contracting officer and property administrator shall monitor the contractor's progress in correcting deficiencies.  If the contractor fails to make adequate progress, the contracting officer shall take whatever action is necessary to ensure that the contractor corrects the deficiencies.  Examples of actions the contracting officer can take are: withdraw or withhold approval of the system; bringing the issue to the attention of higher level management, implementing or increasing the withholding in accordance with the clause at 252.242-7005, Contractor Business Systems, and recommending non-award of potential contracts.          (B)  *Correction of significant deficiencies*.          (*1*)  When the contractor notifies the contracting officer that the contractor has corrected the significant deficiencies, the contracting officer shall request the property administrator to review the correction to determine if the deficiencies have been resolved.          (*2*)  The contracting officer shall determine if the contractor has corrected the deficiencies.          (*3*)  If the contracting officer determines the contractor has corrected the deficiencies, the contracting officer's notification shall be sent to the property administrator; auditor; payment office; appropriate action officers responsible for reporting past performance at the requiring activities; and each contracting and contract administration office having substantial business with the contractor as applicable.