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Costing Parameters Tab

Use the Costing Parameters tab to specify whether or not to include certain purchase orders or vendor quotes, based on date cutoff, in the costing process when you use the Compute Proposal Item Costs screen.

Compute Proposal Item Cost Rules

The settings in this group box default from the Proposal Item Cost Rules group box on the Configure Materials Estimating Settings screen. After establishing a proposal item list and/or Proposal Bills of Material (PBOM), you can process the item cost, project item cost, catalog/contract line item number (CLIN) lists, quotes, purchase orders, PO history, manufacturing orders, and inventory information on the Compute Proposal Item Costs screen to develop cost estimates for individual items. This process automatically rolls these costs for end items in a given proposal and associated PBOMs based on your selection criteria, and optionally subtracts available part inventory from the proposal's required quantity.

You also assign costs to individual parts and provisional parts by using the worksheets on the Manage Proposal BOM Cost Estimates - Indented and Manage Proposal BOM Cost Estimates - Summarized screens.

If no acceptable cost information exists for a given component, use the Select Request for Quotes from Proposals and Create Request for Quotes for Proposals screens to generate RFQs for one or more vendors. You can enter the results of the RFQs in the system as vendor quotes in Procurement Planning, and you can link them back to the appropriate proposal item or PBOM line.

After selecting costs, use the Compute Proposal Item Costs process to calculate and report PBOM and proposal costs by rolling up individual PBOM lines to the PBOM end item and proposal levels. Lead time information can also be rolled up and reported.

Field Description
Include Expired Vendor Quotes

Select this check box to include expired vendor quotes when costing items for this proposal.

Include Order/Quote Costs if PO Qty is Greater than Break Qty

Select this check box to include orders and quotes with quantities larger than the breakpoint quantities as cost sources.

Quote Expire Date Cutoff

Enter, or click to select, the quote cutoff date. Vendor quotes made before the selected date will be excluded.

PO Order Date Cutoff

Enter, or click to select, the PO order date cutoff. Any PO created before the selected date will be excluded.

MO Order Date Cutoff

Enter, or click to select, the Manufacturing Order (MO) date cutoff. Any MO created before the selected date will be excluded.

Burden Rates By Cost Element

For each cost element, enter the burden percentage rate to apply when calculating item costs for the proposal.

To enable Costpoint to process and calculate burden amounts by cost element for this proposal, select the Print Burden Costs check box on the Compute Proposal Item Costs screen.

Note: The fields in this group box are formatted to round off to .000001 percent.
Field Description
Material

Enter the burden rate to be applied to material costs on this proposal.

Labor

Enter the burden rate to be applied to labor costs on this proposal.

Subcontract

Enter the burden rate to be applied to subcontract costs on this proposal.

Misc 1

Enter the burden rate to be applied to miscellaneous 1 costs on this proposal.

Misc 2

Enter the burden rate to be applied to miscellaneous 2 costs on this proposal.