What is the AICP bid form, how is it organised, and what is the difference between a firm bid and cost-plus-fixed-fee?

The AICP National Live Action Guidelines (revised April 2020) describe a bid form whose live-action cost groups A-K take a single company mark-up; a firm bid becomes the contract price barring specification changes with no accounting for actual costs, while cost-plus-fixed-fee suits jobs with unknown factors, is estimated on a six-page cost summary, and ends with billing of actual direct costs plus the fixed fee; the guidelines are optional and not AICP policy or agreement. Curator qualifications: Bid form PDF structure (A-O summary lettering, crew columns, leftover sample rates) and Excel 2023 update (E1, E5, E6) not reinspected; never treat sample values as recommended rates. PDF text only; the bid form PDF/xlsm (S15, S17) not re-read. Limitations: US commercial production practice. Evidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.

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