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B&P Costs Don't Include Sub Costs Or Profit

Client Alert | less than 1 min read | 07.30.04

In Gentex Corp. v. U.S. (June 10, 2004), the Court of Federal Claims decided two issues of first impression for the court adversely to the contractor: (1) even when a solicitation specifically requests teams to respond, the B&P costs of teammates of the prime are not recoverable unless they are in a joint venture or in some other way are prime contractors themselves and (2) profit is not recoverable on the contractor's costs.

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