A contractor's systems engineer is assigned to the Navy sensor contract and it is a cost plus contract. The engineer is responsible for developing and implementing test procedures. One day the engineer was invited by the government's contracting officer's representative to a weekly morale event. The engineer felt pressured, and decided to attend each event. A month later after reviewing an invoice, the contracting officer discovered that the engineer charged his time attending the morale events to the test procedures cost account.

How should the contracting officer handle this situation and what are the requirements of a cost plus contract such as what are unallowable costs?

 

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Solution The contracting officer should handle this situation by first reviewing the terms of the cost plus contract to determine if the engineers att... View the full answer