PUBLIC LAW 100-180—DEC. 4, 1987
101 STAT. 1131
tions providing for payment to contractors for production special tooling and production special test equipment acquired or fabricated in the performance of contracts described in subsection (b). Such regulations shall establish a uniform policy for the Department of Defense. "(b) CONTRACTS TO WHICH REGULATIONS APPLY.—(1) Except as provided in paragraph (2), regulations under this section shall apply in the case of any contract for production of an item that is awarded by the Secretary of a military department and under which the contractor, in order to perform the contract, is required to acquire or fabricate items of production special tooling or items of production special test equipment. "(2) Such regulation shall not apply to a contract in which the cost to the contractor of the special production tooling and special production test equipment used in the performance of the contract is less than $1,000,000. "(c) REQUIREMENTS.—Regulations under subsection (a) shall in- Regulations, elude the following: "(1) A requirement that the terms and conditions for the acquisition or fabrication of production special test equipment and production special tooling by a contractor under a contract described in subsection (b) (including specification of the maximum amount for which the contractor may be paid for such tooling and equipment)— "(A) shall be specified in the contract, and "(B) shall be determined by the Secretary concerned and the contractor through negotiations. "(2) A requirement that if the Secretary concerned, at the •'. j \ time a contract described in subsection O> is entered into, t) reasonably anticipates that the United States will later contract with the same contractor for the same or similar items for which the contractor would be able to use the special production tooling or special production test equipment that the contractor was required to acquire or fabricate for performance of the contract, and if that tooling and equipment will not be used by the contractor solely for final production acceptance testing under the contract, the contractor— "(A) shall be paid for such tooling and equipment in accordance with the terms and conditions of the contract, but in a total amount not less than a percentage (determined under paragraph (3)) of the maximum amount for such payment agreed to under paragraph (1); and > "(B) shall be paid for the balance of such amount subject to the availability of appropriations and in accordance with an amortization schedule determined by the Secretary concerned and the contractor through negotiations. < "(3) The percentage to be used under paragraph (2)(A) shall be specified in the contract based upon negotiations between the Secretary concerned and the contractor and may not be less than 50 percent, except that a lower percentage may be speci' fied in the case of any contract if the Secretary concerned, before the contract is entered into, approves the use of that lower percentage with respect to that contract. Any such approval by the Secretary concerned shall be made under criteria established by the Secretary of Defense, acting through the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition.
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