FAR and DFARS › DFARS Part 231: Contract Cost Principles and Procedures › Subpart 231.2
DFARS 231.205-22 Lobbying and political activity costs.
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 makes certain lobbying-related costs unallowable for defense contracts. Specifically, it disallows costs for preparing materials, reports, lists, or analyses about the economic or employment impact of an acquisition program in a particular State or congressional district, when the program's research, development, testing, and evaluation is not yet complete. Contractors should not expect reimbursement for these costs.
Applies to: Defense contractors and costs charged to covered contracts
Key terms: unallowable · acquisition program · research, development, testing, and evaluation · congressional district
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The text
(a) Costs associated with preparing any material, report, list, or analysis on the actual or projected economic or employment impact in a particular State or congressional district of an acquisition program for which all research, development, testing, and evaluation has not been completed also are unallowable (10 U.S.C. 4652).
← 231.205-19 Insurance and indemnification. · 231.205-70 External restructuring costs. →
Source: eCFR, 48 CFR chapters 1 and 2 (GPO GovInfo bulk data) ↗. Plain words for the terms: glossary.