PGI 215.404-71: Price analysis.

(a) See the Department of Defense Guidebook for Acquiring Commercial Items, Part B: Pricing Commercial Items, for detailed guidance about techniques and approaches to pricing commercial products and commercial services.

(e) Contracting officers must obtain and document sufficient data to confirm that previous prices paid by the Government were based on a thorough price and/or cost analysis. For example, it would not be sufficient to use price(s) from a database paid by another contracting officer without understanding the type of analysis that was performed to determine the reasonableness of the price(s), and without verifying that the quantities were similar for pricing purposes. This does not necessarily need to be another analysis, but there should be coordination with the other office that acknowledges an analysis was performed previously.

(g) DoD’s cadre of experts within the Defense Contract Management Agency (DCMA) will provide assistance with commercial product or commercial service determinations and price reasonableness determinations. Information about how to obtain advisory assistance from DCMA’s Commercial Item Group is available via email at dcma.boston-ma.easterrn-rc.mbx.Commercial@mail.mil or at http://www.dcma.mil/commercial-item-group/.