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FAR and DFARS › DFARS Part 217: Special Contracting Methods › Subpart 217.70

DFARS 217.7004 Solicitation and award.

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 how to handle solicitations and awards when new items may be bought with or without trading in old property. Solicitations must ask offerors to price both options, but the government is not required to accept an exchange. If an exchange is accepted, it can only be with the winning offeror, and normally one contract covers both the new purchase and the trade-in.

Applies to: Solicitations and awards for acquiring new items where exchange (trade-in) of property is possible

What it requires

  • Include in solicitations a request for offerors to state prices for the new items without any exchange
  • Include in solicitations a request for offerors to state prices for the new items with the exchange (trade-in allowance) for the exchange property listed
  • Make exchanges only with the successful offeror
  • When the successful offer includes an exchange, award one contract for both the acquisition of the new property and the trade-in of the exchange property, except when items must be acquired against a mandatory Federal supply schedule contract, in which case award a separate contract for the exchange

Key terms: exchange · trade-in allowance · exchange property · successful offeror · mandatory Federal supply schedule contract

Written by AI from this section's text. A guide, not legal advice: the text below rules.

The text

(a) Solicitations shall include a request for offerors to state prices—

(1) For the new items being acquired without any exchange; and

(2) For the new items with the exchange (trade-in allowance) for the exchange property listed.

(b) The contracting officer is not obligated to award on an exchange basis. If the lowest evaluated offer is an offer for the new items without any exchange, the contracting officer may award on that basis and forgo the exchange.

(c) Exchanges may be made only with the successful offeror. When the successful offer includes an exchange, award one contract for both the acquisition of the new property and the trade-in of the exchange property. The only exception is when the items must be acquired against a mandatory Federal supply schedule contract, in which case, award a separate contract for the exchange.

← 217.7003 Purchase request. · 217.7005 Solicitation provision. →

Rule changes for DFARS Part 217

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

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