PF 2024-30 AL-2024-04, Acquisition Letter: Contract Pricing—Proposal Analysis and Contractors’ Cost Estimating Systems

DATE: July 23, 2024

SUBJECT: AL-2024-04, Acquisition Letter: Contract Pricing—Proposal Analysis and Contractors’ Cost Estimating Systems

TO: HCAs/Procurement Directors/Contracting Officers
FROM: Director, Contract and Financial Assistance Policy Division, Office of Policy, Office of Acquisition Management

SUMMARY: This Policy Flash transmits AL 2024-04, which discusses contract pricing, proposal analysis, and contractors’ cost estimating systems. 

AL-2024-04, provides guidance to Contracting Officers for performing proposal analyses regarding: the value of contractors’ creating and maintaining strong cost estimating systems; the requirements such systems might meet; and the need to ensure contractors have met the requirements before deciding to what extent to rely upon, modify, or reject the contractors’ estimating techniques in performing cost or price analyses of contractors’ proposals. 

Questions concerning this policy flash should be directed to the Contract and Financial Assistance Policy Division at DOE_oapmpolicy@hq.doe.gov