Regulations last checked for updates: May 05, 2024

Title 48 - Federal Acquisition Regulations System last revised: May 02, 2024
9905.502-40 - 9905.502-40 Fundamental requirement.

All costs incurred for the same purpose, in like circumstances, are either direct costs only or indirect costs only with respect to final cost objectives. No final cost objective shall have allocated to it as an indirect cost any cost, if other costs incurred for the same purpose, in like circumstances, have been included as a direct cost of that or any other final cost objective. Further, no final cost objective shall have allocated to it as a direct cost any cost, if other costs incurred for the same purpose, in like circumstances, have been included in any indirect cost pool to be allocated to that or any other final cost objective.

authority: Pub. L. 100-679, 102 Stat. 4056, 41 U.S.C. 422.
source: 59 FR 55770, Nov. 8, 1994, unless otherwise noted.
cite as: 48 CFR 9905.502-40