Engineering or Related Services. When procuring architectural engineering or related services supported with funds made available or appropriated for 49 U.S.C. chapter 53 or under any other applicable law requiring the Project to be administered under 49 U.S.C. chapter 53, the Recipient agrees that it will comply, and assures its Subrecipients will comply, with 49 U.S.C. § 5325(b): (1) It and its Subcontractors at any tier: (a) Will negotiate for these services in the same manner as a contract for those services negotiated under chapter 11 of Title 40, United States Code, or (b) Will comply with an equivalent State qualifications-based requirement for contracting for those services, if the State has adopted that type of law before August 10, 2005, (2) Upon awarding a contract for architectural engineering or related services, it and its Subcontractors at any tier: (a) Will use the FAR cost principles of 48 C.F.R. part 31 when carrying out and auditing its third party contracts or subcontracts, (b) Will accept the indirect cost rates established by a cognizant Federal or State government agency consistent with FAR requirements that apply for one-year accounting periods, if those rates are not currently under dispute, (c) Will use indirect cost rates accepted by a cognizant Federal or State government agency for contract or subcontract: (d) As required by 49 U.S.C. § 5325(b)(2)(D), together with the members of any group of entities sharing cost or rate data described in the preceding section 17.p(2)(c) of this Master Agreement:
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