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			      <ph props="autonumber" class="- topic/ph ">538.7202</ph> Awarding Order-Level Materials in FSS contracts.</title>
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						             Federal Supply Schedules authorizing order-level materials must include a separate Special Item Number (SIN) with the following scope:</p>
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								                 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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                        <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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						             The order-level materials SIN cannot be the only awarded SIN on a FSS contract or FSS BPA.</p>
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						             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"
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                        class="- topic/xref ">538.270</xref> and <xref href="GSAM-QVIHLKXH.dita#QVIHLKXH"
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                        class="- topic/xref ">538.271</xref> do not apply to order-level materials.</p>
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