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§ 624. Limitation on improvement work by private contract
(a) Determinations respecting comparison of private contract price with estimation of cost of performance of work by Government plant or by well-equipped contractor
No works of river and harbor improvement shall be done by private contract—
(1) if the Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers, determines that Government plant is reasonably available to perform the subject work and the contract price for doing the work is more than 25 per centum in excess of the estimated comparable cost of doing the work by Government plant; or
(2) in any other circumstance where the Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers, determines that the contract price is more than 25 per centum in excess of what he determines to be a fair and reasonable estimated cost of a well-equipped contractor doing the work.
(b) Considerations involved in determinations of estimation of cost of performance of work by Government plant
(c) Considerations involved in determinations of estimation of cost of performance of work by well-equipped contractor
(Mar. 2, 1919, ch. 95, § 8, 40 Stat. 1290; Pub. L. 95–269, § 2, Apr. 26, 1978, 92 Stat. 219.)