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      <title xtrc="GSAM" class="- topic/title ">
         <ph props="autonumber" class="- topic/ph ">538.7202</ph> Awarding
Order-Level Materials in FSS contracts.</title>
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               <p id="d669e17" audience="GSAM" class="- topic/p ">
                  <ph props="autonumber" class="- topic/ph ">(a)</ph>
                    Federal
Supply Schedules authorizing order-level materials must include
a separate Special Item Number (SIN) with the following scope:</p>
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                        <ph props="autonumber" class="- topic/ph ">(1)</ph>
                          Order-level
materials are supplies or services acquired in direct support of
a contractor's offerings and which are unknown before a task or
delivery order is placed against the FSS contract or FSS BPA); including,
direct materials, subcontracts for supplies and incidental services
for which there is not a labor category specified in the FSS contract, other
direct costs, and indirect costs. Order-level materials are subject
to a negotiated price ceiling that the contractor exceeds at its
own risk.</p>
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                     <p id="d669e36" audience="GSAM" class="- topic/p ">
                        <ph props="autonumber" class="- topic/ph ">(2)</ph>
                          Items awarded under
ancillary supplies or other direct cost (ODC) SINs are not order-level
materials.</p>
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               <p id="d669e47" audience="GSAM" class="- topic/p ">
                  <ph props="autonumber" class="- topic/ph ">(b)</ph>
                    The order-level materials
SIN cannot be the only awarded SIN on a FSS contract or FSS BPA.</p>
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               <p id="d669e56" audience="GSAM" class="- topic/p ">
                  <ph props="autonumber" class="- topic/ph ">(c)</ph>
                    Price Pricing analysis
for order-level materials is not conducted when awarding the Federal
Supply Schedule FSS contract or FSS BPA; therefore, sections <xref href="GSAM-OYRSIWIN.dita#OYRSIWIN"
                        outputclass="fm:ParaNumOnly"
                        class="- topic/xref ">538.270</xref> and <xref href="GSAM-QVIHLKXH.dita#QVIHLKXH"
                        outputclass="fm:ParaNumOnly"
                        class="- topic/xref ">538.271</xref> do
not apply to order-level materials.</p>
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