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Economic Price Adjustment Clauses in Fixed-Price Contracts

GovConFeed – Federal fixed-price contracts normally shift all cost risk onto the contractor, but FAR 16.203-1 carves out an exception: economic price adjustment (EPA) clauses that let the contract price move up or down as labor and material costs shift during performance.

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