Capabilities

Crosshair Advisors has experience with price-based and cost-based acquisition.  We support contractor FAR Part 12 and FAR Part 15 contract pricing proposals assisting companies with preparing and supporting their offers with the applicable documentation such as the subcontractor cost or price analyses, commerciality determinations, demonstrating price reasonableness and understanding the applicability of solicitation terms and conditions. Key contract pricing solutions include:  

  • Reviewing IFBs and RFPs for risk and compliance issues and developing questions for Government clarification
  • Helping compile pricing proposals, including establishing indirect cost rates and factors
  • Drafting basis of estimate documenting the methodology and techniques used to establish proposal cost or pricing
  • Identifying and helping to resolve issues involving certified cost or pricing data and helping to perform sweeps of certified cost or pricing data or information other than certified cost or pricing data
  • Supporting commerciality determinations
  • Performing prime and subcontractor cost or price analysis
  • Federal Supply Schedule pricing and compliance with disclosure requirements

solutions

Requests for Equitable Adjustment & TINA Compliance

  • Assist companies with initial proposals and change order accounting and pricing requirements including cost disclosure, segregation and accumulation and TINA certification support
  • Support Requests For Equitable Adjustment (REA's) under FAR related to administrative and constructive changes

Commerciality Determinations & Price Reasonableness

Assist companies with establishing commercial items and services based on an analysis of commercial agreements, commercial pricing practices and conducting market surveys to further substantiate the commerciality and price reasonableness of the products and services offered. Engagement output facilitates support of FAR Part 12 acquisitions and Federal Supply Schedule contracts. 

Commercial Pricing

Key commercial pricing capabilities supporting both commercial items and commercial services include:

  • Commercial pricing and discounting practices
  • Commerciality determinations
  • Prime and subcontractor cost and price analysis
  • Establishing and supporting fair and reasonable pricing
  • Structuring advance agreements

 

Federal Supply Schedule Contracts

FSS solutions range from initial proposal support and schedule administration through disclosure and investigations including:

  • Commercial Sales Practices (CSP) analysis and disclosures
  • Assess Basis of Award customer(s) or class of customers
  • Track designated customer(s) for Price Reductions clause compliance
  • Support pre-award audits and other investigations
  • Assist with Industrial Funding Fee (IFF) and quarterly sales reporting compliance
  • Open market sales analysis
  • Voluntary and mandatory disclosures