5232.791 Obligation of transportation cost in purchase documents.

When the supplier is to be reimbursed for transportation costs, the contracting officer should include an estimate of such costs in the contract under the appropriation data, as follows: "For obligation purposes only, the transportation costs chargeable to the funds indicated above are estimated to be $ ."

These estimated transportation costs should not be included in the total posted in the "Amount" blank on the face of the purchase document; however, the words "PLUS TRANS" should be inserted within the "Amount" blank to alert interested personnel to this additional obligation.