Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:1612 – Cost-reimbursement contracts
Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:1612
- Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
- Contract: means all types of state agreements, regardless of what they may be called, including orders and documents purporting to represent grants, which are for the purchase or disposal of supplies, services, major repairs, or any other item. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:1556
- Contractor: means any person having a contract with a governmental body. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:1556
- in writing: means the product of any method of forming characters on paper, other materials, or viewable screen, which can be read, retrieved, and reproduced, including information that is electronically transmitted and stored. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:1556
- Major repairs: means those repairs payable with funds appropriated in the general appropriations act, except those funds transferred from the operating budget of one governmental body to supplement and complete a project under contract by the division of administration facility planning and control section. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:1556
- Services: means the furnishing of labor, time, or effort by a contractor whose primary purpose is to perform an identifiable task rather than to furnish an end item of supply. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:1556
- Supplies: means all property, including but not limited to equipment, materials, insurance, and leases on immovable property excluding land or a permanent interest in land. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:1556
A. Determination required prior to use. No cost-reimbursement prime contract may be made unless it is determined in writing in accordance with regulations that such contract is likely to be less costly to the state than any other type of contract or that it is impracticable to obtain supplies, services, or major repairs of the kind or quality required except under such a contract.
B. Reimbursement of costs. All cost-reimbursement contracts shall contain a provision that only costs recognized as allowable in accordance with cost principles set forth in regulations will be reimbursable.
C. Prior notice requirement concerning use of cost-reimbursement type subcontract. Each contractor under a cost-reimbursement type contract shall give notice, as provided for in the contract, before entering into (1) a cost-reimbursement type subcontract or (2) any other type of subcontract involving more than ten thousand dollars or ten percent of the estimated cost of the prime contract.
Added by Acts 1979, No. 715, §1, eff. July 1, 1980; Acts 2014, No. 864, §2, eff. Jan. 1, 2015.