Start here if you have been told to submit DD Form 1547. First, know what you are filling: Record of Weighted Guidelines Application. The document is titled DD Form 1547, Record of Weighted Guidelines Application, July 2002..
Your second step is the edition, not stated, listed as not stated. Your third is scope. Because the number carries a DD prefix, you use the same blank as every other military department and defense agency; no service-specific version exists for you to hunt down.
Once you know the form fits, find out when you file it. not stated sets the requirement, and not stated maintains the form itself. Your own command or agency adds local timing on top of that, so ask your administrative office if the deadline matters to you.
Before you download, pick your approach — editable file or printed page. What follows covers the formats first, then the entries, then what you do afterward.
Start at the header. Complete your identification before anything else, then work through the main entries, then finish at the certification. Skipping around causes contradictions between the top of the form and the bottom.
Your first action is verification. Find the edition date on the form and match it against not stated. A mismatch means you are working from a superseded printing, and because DD forms change Department-wide rather than service by service, the office receiving it will notice.
Look up an unclear item on the form face before anywhere else, then in not stated. Should the two texts conflict, the directive is the one you follow.
Download the form
First, look at what you can download. The set covers PDF, the form runs 1 pages, and you will complete roughly 72 fields.
Choose pdf as your default. Next, click inside a box. A fillable pdf responds by outlining the field and letting you type; the text stays in the document when you save it. A printable pdf does not respond, which tells you to print the page and complete it by hand.
Type when you can. Printed entries stay legible after the form is scanned, copied and forwarded, and handwriting often does not survive that trip. If you must write by hand, use block capitals and press firmly.
Check your software before choosing xfdl. That format belongs to IBM Lotus Forms, long used for Defense form distribution, and it needs the matching viewer. Get the viewer installed, then come back for the file.
Whichever you pick, you pay nothing — every format here is a free download. One last tip: open your pdf in a desktop reader rather than in a browser tab, because browser viewers sometimes drop the interactive fields you need.
What the form asks for
- 3. S P I I N.
- 13. Material cost objective.
- 14. Subcontracts cost objective.
- 15. Direct labor cost objective.
- 16. Indirect expenses cost objective.
- 17. Other direct charges.
- 18. Subtotal costs (Sum of 13 through 17). Amount is automatically entered in this field.
- 19. General and administrative costs.
- 20. Total cost objective (Item 18 plus item 19). Amount is automatically entered in this field.
- WEIGHTED GUIDELINES PROFIT FACTORS. 21. Technical assigned weighting percentage.
- 21. Technical assigned value.
- 22. Management/cost control assigned weighting percentage.
- 22. Management/cost control assigned value.
- 23. Performance risk (composite) assigned value.
- 23. Performance risk (composite) base price.
- 23. Performance risk (composite) profit objective.
- 24. Contract type risk assigned value.
- 24. Contract type risk base price.
- 24. Contract type risk profit objective.
- 25. Working capital interest rate percentage.
- 25. Working capital profit objective.
- 26. Amount of land employed.
- 27. Amount of buildings employed.
- Cost efficiency factor. 29. Assigned value percentage
With the form finished, route it to the office named in not stated or in your organization's own instruction. Keep a copy first. People rarely regret having one and frequently regret not having one.
Should you need a related form, look it up by its number. The DD sequence is Department-wide, which makes your search simple: no service qualifier, no branch-specific variant to track down.
Here is where people go wrong. They see a number in an instruction and download whichever form matches it. But DA and DD are separate systems — Army-specific in one case, Department-wide under not stated in the other — so check which series you were sent to before you take the file.
Come back and check the edition next time you need this form. Editions change when the prescribing directive is reissued, when the information collected changes, or when the required notice language is updated, and none of those events reaches you directly. Verifying not stated at the moment you download is the whole defence.
Before you go, note what is not covered here. You have the blank form and instructions for completing it; you do not have legal guidance, and no statement on this page determines what any office will do with your submission. Direct those questions to not stated, to the personnel office that serves you, or to the office designated in not stated.
Questions and answers
- What is DD Form 1547?
- DD Form 1547, Record of Weighted Guidelines Application, July 2002.
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?