Prime contracting

In 1976, Ashland Od (Ashland Synthetic Fuels, Inc.) was awarded the prime contract to constmct a 540 t/d H-coal pdot plant adjacent to its refinery at Cadettsburg, Kentucky, by an industry—government underwriting consortium. Constmction was completed in 1980 (112). The pdot-plant operation ended in eady 1983. 

Contractor/snbcontractor A party in either the prime or subcontractor role, or otherwise providing goods or services to the organization, who performs some of the obligations of a particular prime contract. For example, a contractor hired to put up temporary fencing around a work area to control access would be a subcontractor who must be prequalified. 

Flow-down provisions Terms and conditions which must be incorporated into a subcontract or purchase order to pass down obliga-tions/requirements imposed by the prime contract. These flow-down provisions will provide for certain protections, obligations, or requirements that will modify or add to any work agreement or purchase order terms and conditions. 

James, B.D., G.N. Baum, F.D. Lomax, C.E. Thomas and I.F. Kuhn, Comparison of Onboard Hydrogen Storage for Fuel Cell Vehicles, Directed Technologies, Inc., prepared for Ford Motor Company, under prime contract DE-AC02-94CE50389 to the United States Department of Energy, May 1996. 

This work was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy (Subcontract No. XX-2-02173 under prime contract No. EG-77-C-01-4092). 

This work was carried out under the auspices of Battelle, Prime Contract DAADOS-99-D-7014/DO 0007 subcontract 172791 for the US Army Communications and Electronics Comman... 

Goldfaib, I. SBIR-Phase II Research Prime Contract F49620-93-C-0051, Subcontract 771-602,1996. 

Supported in part by NSF Grants DMR 82-04166, 83-04473, and 85-03083 and by SERI under subcontract XB-2-02144-1 of prime contract EG-77-C-01-4042 with the Department of Energy. 

By the spring of 1942 requirements for the shell had reached a point where the CWS felt obliged to seek additional contractors, and the service awarded 4 additional prime contracts at that time. Two of the new contractors, Erie Basin Metal Products, Inc., and the David Bradley Manufacturing Division of Sears Roebuck and Co., were located in the Chicago Chemical Procurement District. The other 2, the Guiberson Co. and Hardwicke Etter Co., were in the Dallas procurement district. In 1943 another prime contractor was added, the Day and Night Manufacturing Co. in the San Francisco district. Early in 1945 prime contracts were awarded 5 more manufacturers, 3 in the Boston procurement district and 2 in the Dallas procurement district. But the war came to an end before any of these 5 got into production. 

The term Prime Contracting has been defined and interpreted in several different ways by constractors, clients, and project financiers. The UK Goverrunent, who sponsored the Building Down Barriers report defines Prime Contracting as a... 

Table 12.1 Proposed Prime Contracting Management Areas ...

Table 12.3 Prime Contracting Management Areas of Risk Assessment and Management...

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