Calculation and recovery of home head office overhead james g.
How to calculate home office overhead. This ruling applies only to contracts with the federal government and is not as yet applicable to any state except perhaps virginia. It s a simple example the numbers are fictitious and you will almost certainly find yourself adjusting. Rate of overhead allocated to project per day number of days delayed amount of home office overhead allocated to project. Former calculating your office over head right now.
In wickham contracting co. Home office overhead costs are costs that are incurred to support the work but are not directly chargeable to a specific project. Executive director corporate claims management abstract. To calculate overhead add up all of the indirect costs of running your business each month like equipment rent and utility bills.
Extended home office overhead is calculated as a fixed percentage markup of costs incurred during the contract time extension. Keep in mind that overhead is how much it costs to keep your business up and running without selling anything at all. These are your overhead costs. To calculate overhead costs follow the steps below.
Fischer the court determined that the original eichleay formula is the exclusive means available for calculating unabsorbed home office overhead costs. The figure on page 66 shows a basic overhead cal culations sheet one you can use as a model to devise your own office over head document. When construction is delayed by owner caused actions contractors request compensable delay. Do not include direct costs like the amount spent on wages or inventory.
Fru con construction corporation. Make a comprehensive list of indirect business expenses including items like rent taxes utilities office equipment factory maintenance etc. The board held that where a contractor is entitled to a compensable contract time extension for additional work the contractor is entitled to recover extended home office overhead. Vii while the eichleay formula is the only proper method of calculating unabsorbed overhead in the federal courts some federal courts and states have adopted a modified version or a completely different formula.
Let s break the process down. Unabsorbed home office overhead is also a well known but not well understood delay damage and like extended field overhead is only caused by a critical project delay. This formula has also been called the direct cost allocation method the difference between the two methodologies is simply that the eichleay formula develops a daily overhead rate which is then multiplied by the total number of owner caused delay days while the manshul formula uses the as bid home office overhead rate multiplied by the actual cost of work performed during the delay. The eichleay formula was established following a decision of the armed services board of contract appeals in eichleay corporation asbca no.
It is difficult to reach agreement on causes and extent of delay and even tougher to agree on the cost of delay.