Pricing of Noncompetitive Contracts Subject to the Truth-in-Negotiations Act

PSAD-77-91 Published: Apr 11, 1977. Publicly Released: Apr 11, 1977.

Highlights

GAO conducts a continuing review and evaluation of how purchasing offices carry out the purposes of the Truth-in-Negotiations Act for pricing negotiated noncompetitive contracts and the reasonableness of the contract prices. The pricing of 10 prime contracts and 18 subcontracts with a value of about $400 million was examined at the Department of Defense (DOD).

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