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FAR and DFARS › DFARS Part 237: Service Contracting › Subpart 237.1

DFARS 237.172 Service contracts surveillance.

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 quality assurance surveillance plans be prepared alongside the statement of work or statement of objectives for service solicitations and contracts. These plans should be tailored to the performance risks of the specific contract type and work effort, and must be retained in the contract file. It also points to guidance on minimum labor category qualifications for orders under multiple award services contracts.

Applies to: Service solicitations and contracts, and multiple award services contracts

What it requires

  • Prepare quality assurance surveillance plans in conjunction with the statement of work or statement of objectives for service solicitations and contracts
  • Tailor the plans to address performance risks inherent in the specific contract type and work effort
  • Retain quality assurance surveillance plans in the contract file

Key terms: quality assurance surveillance plans · statement of work · statement of objectives · performance risks · multiple award services contracts

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

The text

(a) Ensure that quality assurance surveillance plans are prepared in conjunction with the preparation of the statement of work or statement of objectives for solicitations and contracts for services. These plans should be tailored to address the performance risks inherent in the specific contract type and the work effort addressed by the contract. (See FAR subpart 46.4.) Retain quality assurance surveillance plans in the contract file. See http://sam.dau.mil, Step Four—Requirements Definition, for examples of quality assurance surveillance plans.

(b) See PGI 216.505-70 for guidance regarding minimum labor category qualifications for orders issued under multiple award services contracts.

Sections it refers to

Sections that refer to it

← 237.171-4 Contract clause. · 237.173 Prohibition on interrogation of detainees by contractor personnel. →

Rule changes for DFARS Part 237

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

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