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DD Form 1861 — DD Form 1861, Contract Facilities Capital Cost of Money, August 2004

Contract Facilities Capital Cost of Money

What is DD Form 1861? It is a Department of Defense form titled DD Form 1861, Contract Facilities Capital Cost of Money, August 2004, and its job is straightforward: Contract Facilities Capital Cost of Money. That single line covers most of what people want to know before they download it.

Will you need a different form because of where you serve? No. DD forms are Department-wide instruments, and that scope is what separates them from service publications. One edition, all branches, defense agencies included.

Where does the requirement come from? From not stated, with not stated responsible for the document itself. Those are the names to cite if anyone asks under what authority you filed.

Which edition should you have? not stated, listed as not stated. A copy dated otherwise is a copy worth replacing.

What the form asks for

  • 1. Contractor name.
  • 2. Contractor address.
  • 3. Business Unit.
  • 4. Request for Proposal or Contract Procurement Instrument Identification Number.
  • 5. Performance period.
  • 6.a. Pool, line 1 of 12.
  • 6.b., Allocation base. Line 1.
  • 6.c., Facilities Capital Cost of Money. (1) Factor, line 1.
  • 6.c.(2). Amount, line 1.
  • 6.a. Pool, line 2.
  • 6.b., Allocation base. Line 2.
  • 6.c. (1) Factor, line 2.
  • 6.c.(2). Amount, line 2.
  • 6.a. Pool, line 3.
  • 6.b., Allocation base. Line 3.
  • 6.c. (1) Factor, line 3.
  • 6.c.(2). Amount, line 3.
  • 6.a. Pool, line 4.
  • 6.b., Allocation base. Line 4.
  • 6.c. (1) Factor, line 4.
  • 6.c.(2). Amount, line 4.
  • 6.a. Pool, line 5.
  • 6.b., Allocation base. Line 5.
  • 6.c. (1) Factor, line 5.

Download the form

Which files are here? These: PDF. How much work is involved? 1 pages, about 64 entry fields.

Fillable or printable — which do you have? Click inside a box. If it accepts a cursor and typed text, the file is fillable and your entries save with it. If nothing happens, the pdf is flat, and the only way forward is printing it and writing on paper.

Should you type or write? Type, whenever the choice is yours. The reason is what happens after submission: the record gets copied and scanned, and every pass costs handwriting legibility that typed entries never lose.

In what order do you complete it? The printed order, top to bottom. Header data comes before the body, and the body before the signature block. The sequence is not decorative — later entries are keyed to earlier ones.

What is the first thing to check? The edition date on the face of the form. Does it read not stated? If not, the copy is superseded, and a superseded DD form is a real problem: Department-level revisions replace the blank for every service at once, so an old file on a shared drive is stale everywhere, not just in your office.

Where do you look up an unclear entry? The form face first, not stated second. And when the two disagree? not stated controls.

Where does the completed form go? To the office named in not stated or in your organization's local procedure. Should you keep a copy? Always — a scan or a saved file costs nothing and spares you the whole exercise if the original disappears.

Do you need to know which branch issued a related form? No. DD numbering is Department-wide and unified, which means the number on its own is a complete address for the document.

Why do some instructions cite both a DA and a DD form? Because the procedure touches both systems, not because the forms are related. Service forms answer to a service proponent; DD forms answer to not stated or another Department office. The sequences were never aligned.

Should you archive this file and reuse it next year? Better not. Forms are revised as directives are reissued, as data requirements shift and as statutory notice text is updated, and none of that reaches you directly. Download fresh, check the edition date.

What does this page actually provide? The blank form and a description of it. What does it not provide? Legal guidance, procedural rulings, or any assurance about a particular filing. Who answers those? not stated, the administrative office that serves you, or the authority identified in not stated.

Questions and answers

What is DD Form 1861?
DD Form 1861, Contract Facilities Capital Cost of Money, August 2004
Which edition is current?
Not stated by the publisher
Who is responsible for this form?
Not stated
In which formats can it be downloaded?
PDF

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