AI Skill for LH/T&M IGCE Estimates - Optimize Now

AI Skill for LH/T&M IGCE Estimates - Optimize Now

This AI Skill creates auditable Labor-Hour and Time-and-Materials Independent Government Cost Estimates (IGCE) to assist in preparing comprehensive cost assessments for government contracts.

What this skill does

• Triggers related to Labor-Hour IGCE, LH estimate, Time-and-Materials IGCE, T&M estimate, burdened hourly rate, and burden multipliers.
• Builds auditable LH/T&M estimates using the Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (BLS OEWS), explicit burden multipliers, and General Services Administration (GSA) CALC+ positioning.
• Incorporates GSA Per Diem travel rates and separately priced T&M materials.
• Generates validation for proposed LH/T&M rates and prepares price-reasonableness memoranda or fair-and-reasonable analyses.
• Operates in compliance with FAR regulations such as FAR 15.404-1, FAR 16.600 and 16.601, FAR 31.205-26, and FAR 52.232-7.

Who it is for

• Developers and teams using AI coding agents like Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex.
• Professionals involved in government contract management and cost estimation, including procurement specialists and cost analysts.

Use cases

• Developing independent cost estimates for government contracts using Labor-Hour or Time-and-Materials criteria.
• Evaluating and verifying labor-hour rates based on BLS OEWS data, providing rigorous cost scrutiny.
• Preparing price-reasonableness memos as part of government acquisition processes.

Technical details

• Requires the use of bls-oews, gsa-calc, and gsa-perdiem servers.
• Applies wrap-rate-presets.md scenarios for burden-multiplier analysis.
• References data-source-operations.md for mapping labor and invoking BLS, CALC+ operation.

This provides general workflow assistance only and is not legal, tax, accounting or financial advice.

Source & Licence

This package is built on open-source work published by 1102tools-dev (1102tools-dev/federal-contracting-skills) and distributed under MIT. The original licence text and copyright notice are included in your download.

Personal and commercial use, modification and redistribution are permitted, provided the original copyright and licence notice are retained.

Your purchase covers curation, licence verification, packaging, documentation and instant delivery. It does not grant exclusive rights to the underlying open-source code, which remains available under its original licence.

Delivery & Support

• Delivery: instant — a secure download link is emailed to you as soon as payment is confirmed.
• Format: ZIP archive containing the skill files, documentation and the original licence.
• Support: support@mcpcart.com — we aim to reply within 2 business days.
• Updates: updates are included only where stated on this page.

Refunds

This is a digital product delivered immediately after purchase. By completing your order you request immediate delivery and acknowledge that, once the download has been accessed, the statutory right to cancel no longer applies to the extent permitted by law. Refund requests are handled in accordance with our published Refund Policy.

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