FAR and DFARS › FAR Part 22: Application of Labor Laws to Government Acquisitions › Subpart 22.10
FAR 22.1002-1 General.
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 section requires that service contracts over $2,500 include mandatory provisions about minimum wages, fringe benefits, safe working conditions, employee notification of minimum compensation, and equivalent federal employee classifications and wage rates. It also states that service contracts may not exceed 5 years.
Applies to: Service contracts over $2,500
What it requires
- Include mandatory provisions regarding minimum wages and fringe benefits
- Include mandatory provisions regarding safe and sanitary working conditions
- Include mandatory provisions regarding notification to employees of the minimum allowable compensation
- Include mandatory provisions regarding equivalent Federal employee classifications and wage rates
Key terms: service contracts · minimum wages · fringe benefits · safe and sanitary working conditions · equivalent Federal employee classifications and wage rates
Written by AI from this section's text. A guide, not legal advice: the text below rules.
The text
Service contracts over $2,500 shall contain mandatory provisions regarding minimum wages and fringe benefits, safe and sanitary working conditions, notification to employees of the minimum allowable compensation, and equivalent Federal employee classifications and wage rates. Under 41 U.S.C. 6707(d), service contracts may not exceed 5 years.
Sections that refer to it
- 17.204 Contracts.
← 22.1002 Statutory and Executive order requirements. · 22.1002-2 Wage determinations based on prevailing rates. →
Rule changes for FAR Part 22
- Federal Acquisition Regulation: Trade Agreements Thresholds ↗ · final rule 2026-03-13 · effective 2026-03-13
- Federal Acquisition Regulation: Inflation Adjustment of Acquisition-Related Thresholds ↗ · final rule 2025-08-27 · effective 2025-10-01
- Office of Federal Procurement Policy; Federal Acquisition Regulation: Pay Equity and Transparency in Federal Contracting ↗ · proposed 2025-01-08
- Federal Acquisition Regulation: Improving Consistency Between Procurement and Nonprocurement Procedures on Suspension and Debarment ↗ · final rule 2025-01-03 · effective 2025-01-17
- Federal Acquisition Regulation: Training To Prevent Human Trafficking for Certain Air Carriers; Correction ↗ · final rule 2024-12-30 · effective 2025-01-03
- Federal Acquisition Regulation: Training To Prevent Human Trafficking for Certain Air Carriers ↗ · final rule 2024-12-16 · effective 2025-01-03
- Federal Acquisition Regulation: Inflation Adjustment of Acquisition-Related Thresholds ↗ · proposed 2024-11-29 · comments due 2025-01-28
- Federal Acquisition Regulation: Combating Trafficking in Persons-Definition and Agency Responsibilities ↗ · proposed 2024-07-18 · comments due 2024-09-16
Source: eCFR, 48 CFR chapters 1 and 2 (GPO GovInfo bulk data) ↗. Plain words for the terms: glossary.