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DFARS 215.403-5 Instructions for submission of certified cost or pricing data and data other than certified cost or pricing data.

The codified text (eCFR, as of 2026-10-02). Under the Revolutionary FAR Overhaul ↗, agencies follow class deviations with new text for many parts while the formal rules go through the Federal Register: check the solicitation and your contract's clauses, which rule.

In plain English

This DFARS section tells contracting officers to require contractors to submit their forward pricing rate proposal using the items in the Contractor Forward Pricing Rate Proposal Adequacy Checklist. The proposal should be sent to the Government at least 90 days before the proposed effective date of the rates, and the completed checklist must be submitted with the proposal. It matters because it sets the format and timing expectations for a contractor's forward pricing rate proposal.

Applies to: Contractors following the contract cost principles in FAR subpart 31.2, Contracts With Commercial Organizations

What it requires

  • Comply with the submission items in Table 215.403-1 so the forward pricing rate proposal is in acceptable form
  • Complete the Contractor Forward Pricing Rate Proposal Adequacy Checklist at Table 215.403-1
  • Submit the completed checklist with the forward pricing rate proposal

Key terms: forward pricing rate proposal · Contractor Forward Pricing Rate Proposal Adequacy Checklist · administrative contracting officer · contract cost principles · proposed effective date of the rates

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The text

(b)(3) For contractors following the contract cost principles in FAR subpart 31.2, Contracts With Commercial Organizations, pursuant to the procedures in FAR 42.1701(b), the administrative contracting officer shall require contractors to comply with the submission items in Table 215.403-1 in order to ensure that their forward pricing rate proposal is submitted in an acceptable form in accordance with FAR 15.403-5(b)(3). The contracting officer should request that the proposal be submitted to the Government at least 90 days prior to the proposed effective date of the rates. To ensure the proposal is complete, the contracting officer shall request that the contractor complete the Contractor Forward Pricing Rate Proposal Adequacy Checklist at Table 215.403-1, and submit it with the forward pricing rate proposal.

Table 215.403-1—Contractor Forward Pricing Rate Proposal Adequacy Checklist

Complete the following checklist, providing the location of requested information, or an explanation of why the requested information is not provided, and submit it with the forward pricing rate proposal.

Contractor Forward Pricing Rate Proposal Adequacy Checklist

Sections it refers to

  • 42.1701 Procedures.
  • 215.403-1 Prohibition on obtaining certified cost or pricing data (10 U.S.C. chapter 271 and 41 U.S.C. chapter 35).
  • 15.403-5 Instructions for submission of certified cost or pricing data and data other than certified cost or pricing data.

← 215.403-3 Requiring data other than certified cost or pricing data. · 215.404 Proposal analysis. →

Rule changes for DFARS Part 215

Source: eCFR, 48 CFR chapters 1 and 2 (GPO GovInfo bulk data) ↗. Plain words for the terms: glossary.

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