FAR and DFARS › DFARS Part 235: Research and Development Contracting
DFARS 235.006-71 Competition.
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 explains that using a broad agency announcement with peer or scientific review, or a commercial solutions opening with expert peer review, can satisfy the requirement for full and open competition. It also points to another section for rules on contract line items or options when a contract is initially awarded from a competitive broad agency announcement.
Applies to: DoD contracting officers and contractors involved in science and technology or innovative solution acquisitions
Key terms: broad agency announcement · peer or scientific review · full and open competition · commercial solutions opening · contract line items
Written by AI from this section's text. A guide, not legal advice: the text below rules.
The text
(a)(1) Use of a broad agency announcement with peer or scientific review for the award of science and technology proposals in accordance with 235.016(a) fulfills the requirement for full and open competition (see 206.102(d)(2)).
(2) Use of a commercial solutions opening with scientific, technological, or other subject-matter expert peer review for the award of innovative solutions or potential capabilities in accordance with subpart 212.70 fulfills the requirement for full and open competition (see 206.102-70).
(b) For a contract that is initially awarded from the competitive selection of a proposal resulting from a broad agency announcement, see 234.005-1 for the use of contract line items or contract options for the development and demonstration or initial production of technology developed under the contract or the delivery of initial or additional items.
Sections it refers to
- 235.016 Broad agency announcement.
- 206.102 Use of competitive procedures.
- 206.102-70 Other competitive procedures.
- 234.005-1 Competition.
← 235.006-70 Manufacturing Technology Program. · 235.008 Evaluation for award. →
Rule changes for DFARS Part 235
- Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement: Disclosure of DoD Funding in Technical Publications (DFARS Case 2024-D003) ↗ · proposed 2025-08-25 · comments due 2025-10-24
- Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement: Public Access to Results of Federally Funded Research (DFARS Case 2020-D028) ↗ · proposed 2025-07-18
- Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement: Public Access to Results of Federally Funded Research (2020-D028) ↗ · proposed 2024-09-26 · comments due 2024-11-25
Source: eCFR, 48 CFR chapters 1 and 2 (GPO GovInfo bulk data) ↗. Plain words for the terms: glossary.