How does my group procure a technical advisor or any other contractor?

§ 35.4205 How does my group procure a technical advisor or any other contractor? When procuring contractors your group must also: (a) Provide opportunity for all qualified contractors to compete for your work (see § 35.4210); (b) Keep written records of the reasons for all your contracting decisions; (c) Make sure that all costs are reasonable in a proposed contract; (d) Inform EPA of any proposed contract over $1,000.00; (e) Provide EPA the opportunity to review a contract before your group awards or amends it; (f) Perform a “cost analysis” to evaluate each element of a contractor's cost to determine if it is reasonable, allocable and allowable for all contracts over $25,000; and [65 FR 58858, Oct. 2, 2000, as amended at 73 FR 15922, Mar. 26, 2008]