Reference eligibility: eligible — Institutional or method-author operating guidance documents this procedure; no tool-seller customer-success claim is admitted.
This is a retained audit record, not an eligible reference example. Inspect source eligibility.
procurement/operations / OP-PROC-02
Federal proposed-price analysis
Proposed prices are tested against comparable evidence with contextual adjustments.
documented-procedure · · Source account, not a validated implementation
What goes in
- Proposal
- Comparable prices
- Terms and market context
What comes out
- Price-reasonableness analysis
Documented sequence
Order described in the source account; not a sequence between pattern families.
- Select analysis depth appropriate to acquisition
- Obtain competing or historical price evidence
- Check comparability
- Adjust for terms, quantity and market differences
- Seek technical help for item differences
- Escalate insufficient price evidence to other analysis
Checks described
- Historical price must be a valid comparator
What changes with context
- Contracting-officer authority; not a universal ordered algorithm
- Old or uncertain comparators may be unsuitable
Shared patterns · provisional interpretation
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Assemble grounded evidence
Distributed source material → traceable retrieval, synthesis, or a decision-ready evidence packet
Fit: qualified. Exploratory analyst coding of collected source summaries; not independently tested
Could this transfer?
Hypothetical: Compare software-benchmark claims only after aligning workloads and measurement conditions.
Limit: Statutory pricing requirements and procurement discretion remain domain-specific.
Evidence limits and unknowns
- Actual decision trace
- Practitioner error rates
- Current rule-version date
Source eligibility and effectiveness
Allowed use: process reference with explicit limits . Source eligibility is not proof of effectiveness, safety or transferability.
Review attribution: AI-assisted source review · 2026-10-18T03:26:44.526806+00:00.
- Eligibility, where granted, permits a process reference only; it is not proof of usefulness, causal effectiveness, safety, or transferability.
- No workflow software executed, no video playback independently observed, and no outcomes independently measured by this audit.
- Actual decision trace
- Practitioner error rates
- Current rule-version date
- Statutory pricing requirements and procurement discretion remain domain-specific.
Source and dates
FAR 15.404-1 — Proposal analysis techniques ↗ · Government acquisition operating rule
- Published
- Unknown
- Updated
- Unknown
- Checked (UTC)
- 2026-10-18T03:00:44Z
displayed_FAC_edition_effective_date: 2026-03-13
Page header identifies FAC 2026-01, Effective Date 03/13/2026. This is the displayed FAR compilation edition, not proof this section changed on that date, and not webpage publication/update.
verified other date only · Date evidence ↗