Machining Sponsorship for FRC Teams

[Cory]

Originally Posted by Ari423

I see how you could argue that, and I see how you could argue the other way. R12 states that " labor provided by Team members (including sponsor employees who are members of the team)" is exempt from being included on the BoM. It doesn't say it's only exempt if it's provided for free. Definitely a Q&A question.

Example 4: A Team purchases steel bar stock for $10 USD and has it
machined by a local machine shop. The machine shop is not considered
a team Sponsor, but donates two (2) hours of expended labor anyway.
The Team must include the estimated normal cost of the labor as if it
were paid to the machine shop, and add it to the $10 USD.

Similarities between Ex 4 and Ex 5: no money changed hands, labor was donated by machine shop.

Differences between Ex 4 and Ex 5: Machine shop was listed as a sponsor in TIMS.

I don't see how you could read those two examples and think that Example 5 exists for any reason other than to say "if you did what you did in Example 4, but put the sponsor in your team name instead, you don't have to account for FMV of labor".

Like you said, Q&A will sort it out in short order though.