Regulations last checked for updates: Feb 10, 2026

Title 48 - Federal Acquisition Regulations System last revised: Jan 28, 2026
16.600 - 16.600 Scope.

Time-and-materials contracts and labor-hour contracts are not fixed-price contracts.

[77 FR 197, Jan. 3, 2012]
authority: 41 U.S.C. 1121(b); 40 U.S.C. 121(c); 10 U.S.C. chapter 4 and 10 U.S.C. chapter 137 legacy provisions (see 10 U.S.C. 3016); and 51 U.S.C. 20113.
source: 48 FR 42219, Sept. 19, 1983, unless otherwise noted.
cite as: 48 CFR 16.600