Some Commentaries on "cost-plus-a-fixed-fee" Contracts with Particular Reference to United States Navy Contracts Under the Bueau of Yards and Docks |
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... expense was not among those for which the contract promised reimbursement . In the case of James Stewart and Co. , decided March 3 , 1924 ( 59 Court of Claims 295 ) , the syllabus is as follows : Where it was necessary for a cost - plus ...
... expense was not among those for which the contract promised reimbursement . In the case of James Stewart and Co. , decided March 3 , 1924 ( 59 Court of Claims 295 ) , the syllabus is as follows : Where it was necessary for a cost - plus ...
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... expenses of the central offices of the contractors , and services and traveling expenses of offi- cers and employees of the central office organization except as specifically authorized by the contracting officer . In determining the ...
... expenses of the central offices of the contractors , and services and traveling expenses of offi- cers and employees of the central office organization except as specifically authorized by the contracting officer . In determining the ...
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... expense , and ( 6 ) major overhaul . The details of the plant - rental agreement in the case of the Pacific islands ... expenses as items of cost , except such as might be specifically authorized by the contracting officer as occa- sions ...
... expense , and ( 6 ) major overhaul . The details of the plant - rental agreement in the case of the Pacific islands ... expenses as items of cost , except such as might be specifically authorized by the contracting officer as occa- sions ...
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... expenses . Rental compensation under this paragraph shall be calculated , for the equipment listed therein , in accordance with that certain Dredging Plant and Equip- ment Cost and Rental Schedule , Revised July 25 , 1939 , attached ...
... expenses . Rental compensation under this paragraph shall be calculated , for the equipment listed therein , in accordance with that certain Dredging Plant and Equip- ment Cost and Rental Schedule , Revised July 25 , 1939 , attached ...
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... expenses and subsistence shall conform to the allowances authorized by the " Standardized Government Travel Regulations . " No persons other than those engaged upon the work under the contract shall be lodged or quartered upon any of ...
... expenses and subsistence shall conform to the allowances authorized by the " Standardized Government Travel Regulations . " No persons other than those engaged upon the work under the contract shall be lodged or quartered upon any of ...
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13 Corpus Juris 350-yard dump scow accomplishment Acting Secretary actual net cost administration and plant amount ance annum April 25 award Bureau of Yards Chief of Bureau Civil Engineer Corps column 11 competitive bidding Comptroller Congress Contracting Officer Contractors shall furnish cost-plus contract Court decisions Depreciation determined Diesel tug Dredging Plant execution facilities fixed fee Government HAWAIIAN DREDGING COMPANY hereof hereto included indicated insurable value intent items of cost items of plant JOHNSTON ISLAND July 25 Kaneohe Bay materials ment MIDWAY ISLAND months Navy Department necessary OAHU Officer in Charge operations overhaul Pacific islands paid PALMYRA ISLAND parties payments otherwise authorized Pearl Harbor percent person personnel plans and specifications plant and equipment plant expense procedure projects provisions of ARTICLE purchase purpose reimbursed Rental Schedule Resident Officer San Juan Seaplane shown in column Sitka submitted taxes Territory of Hawaii tion to payments tractors TURNER CONSTRUCTION United Yards and Docks
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Page 29 - District, which may require or involve the employment of laborers or mechanics shall contain a provision that no laborer or mechanic doing any part of the work contemplated by the contract, in the employ of the contractor or any sub-contractor contractIng for any part of said work contemplated, shall be required or permitted to work more than eight hours in any one calendar day...
Page 34 - This warranty shall not apply to commissions payable by Contractors upon contracts or sales secured or made through bona fide established commercial or selling agencies maintained by the Contractor for the purpose of securing business.
Page 26 - Anything mentioned in the specifications and not shown on the drawings, or shown on the drawings and not mentioned in the specifications, shall be of like effect as if shown or mentioned in both. In case of difference between drawings and specifications, the specifications shall govern.
Page 29 - ... for each laborer or mechanic for every calendar day in which such employee is required or permitted to labor more than eight hours upon said work without receiving compensation computed in accordance with this article, and all penalties thus imposed shall be withheld for the use and benefit of the Government...
Page 5 - A contract must be construed as a whole, and the intention of the parties is to be collected from the entire instrument, and not from detached portions, it being necessary to consider all of its parts in order to determine the meaning of any particular part, as well as of the whole.
Page 33 - Disputes. Except as otherwise specifically provided In this contract, all disputes concerning questions of fact arising under this contract shall be decided by the contracting officer subject to written appeal by the contractor within 30 days to the head of the department concerned or his duly authorized representative, whose decision shall be final and conclusive upon the parties thereto. In the meantime the contractor shall diligently proceed with the work as directed.
Page 5 - ... so as to view the circumstances as they viewed them, and so to judge of the meaning of the words and of the correct application of the language to the things described.
Page 34 - The contractor warrants that he has not employed any person to solicit or secure this contract upon any agreement for a commission, percentage, brokerage, or contingent fee. Breach of this warranty shall give the Government the right to annul the...
Page 5 - ... greater regard is to be had to the clear intent of the parties than to any particular words which they may have used in the expression of their intent.
Page 5 - Where the parties to a contract have given it a practical construction by their conduct, as by acts in partial performance, such construction is entitled to great if not controlling weight in determining its proper interpretation (13 Corpus Juris 546).