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FAR and DFARS › FAR Part 22: Application of Labor Laws to Government Acquisitions › Subpart 22.1

FAR 22.103-3 Procedures.

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 tells contracting officers how to handle overtime in solicitations and negotiations. Solicitations normally should not require overtime at Government expense, and during negotiations the contracting officer should try to avoid paying overtime and shift premiums. If overtime will be needed, the contracting officer must get a request from the contractor covering all estimated overtime for the contract's life.

Applies to: Contracting officers handling solicitations and negotiations for contracts where overtime may be involved

What it requires

  • When overtime will be required in contract performance, secure from the contractor a request for all overtime to be used during the life of the contract, to the extent it can be estimated with reasonable certainty
  • Ensure the contractor's request contains the information required by paragraph (b) of the clause at 52.222-2, Payment for Overtime Premiums

Key terms: overtime · shift premiums · solicitations · contracting officer · 52.222-2

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The text

(a) Solicitations normally shall not specify delivery or performance schedules that may require overtime at Government expense.

(b) In negotiating contracts, contracting officers should, consistent with the Government's needs, attempt to (1) ascertain the extent that offers are based on the payment of overtime and shift premiums and (2) negotiate contract prices or estimated costs without these premiums or obtain the requirement from other sources.

(c) When it becomes apparent during negotiations of applicable contracts (see 22.103-5(b)) that overtime will be required in contract performance, the contracting officer shall secure from the contractor a request for all overtime to be used during the life of the contract, to the extent that the overtime can be estimated with reasonable certainty. The contractor's request shall contain the information required by paragraph (b) of the clause at 52.222-2, Payment for Overtime Premiums.

Sections it refers to

← 22.103-2 Policy. · 22.103-4 Approvals. →

Rule changes for FAR Part 22

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

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