Contracting Officer Unlimited Warrant Board Verified Answers And Questions 2023.

After much deliberation and analysis, you as the CO have decided that an item proposed as commercial does not fulfill the definition in FAR 2.101(b). You ask the contractor to submit certifiable cost or pricing data, however, the contractor refuses your request and still insists that its product is commercial. What steps would you now take? {Ans: Explain your position again to the contractor, emphasizing that you are the CO; you have the final determination regarding commerciality; and failure of the contractor to submit the data is a serious situation. 2) Elevate the impasse to management and solicit their help through the leverage they have with their contractor counterparts. 3) Examine the possibility of another source (unlikely at this point). 4) Ask the contractor to put into writing that the company refuses to supply certifiable cost or pricing data and the company will withdraw its proposal if the CO persists in determining that the item is not commercial. 5) If the contractor does what was requested in bullet (4) above, the next step would be a TINA waiver request since the government cannot otherwise obtain the item. 6) The TINA waiver package would also need to address how the