Adjustments may be made for formal mission or scope of work changes. Preferential procurement programs. It does not include determinations as to whether a support service should he obtained through public or private resources, when the Gov-ernment retains full responsibility and control over the delivery of those services. Quality assurance surveillance. Reasonable or competitive prices.
Determinations are to be made by the contracting officer.
This definition does not imply an hourly, daily, monthly or annual requirement, but must, in a general sense, be repetitive in nature, wherein the expected workload can be reasonably estimated. Many of these commercial activities can be aggregated. For example, an agency may inventory transportation acquisition, operations, maintenance and disposal as independent commercial activities. Economies of scale are not justification for dismissing new or expanded work as severable, these economies will be tested through competitive offer. First, it is the date when a cost comparison begins, generally defined as the date that a local Study Team is formed and actual work on the Performance Work Statement, Management Plan and in-house cost estimate begins.