Common use of Cost Share Clause in Contracts

Cost Share. Cost share agreements must be easily understood and correspond to agency cost accounting/tracking methods in order to facilitate the billing process. Jurisdictional agencies should implement a method to track costs that occur outside of the cost share period (e.g., assign resources new incident order numbers and establish new agency-specific accounting codes). A cost share agreement will be developed on the basis of one or a combination of the following four criteria: 1. Initial Attack Agreement (mutual aid) 2. Acres Burned 3. You Order, You Pay (YOYP) a. A unified ordering point is required and agencies agree to who will order which resources. b. On-incident support costs may be split by the percentage of agency requested resources. c. Off-incident support costs are paid for by the ordering unit. 4. Cost Apportionment Fire cost tracking and accountability (i.e. air tanker and helicopter drop numbers and location) should be established and maintained early during initial attack. An after-action fiscal review may be conducted at the request of any Party.