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FAR and DFARS › DFARS Part 237: Service Contracting › Subpart 237.74

DFARS 237.7400 Scope.

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 subpart sets out procedures for awarding contracts to local governments for services like police, fire protection, airfield operation, or other community services at military installations being closed under the cited base closure laws. It matters because it allows these contracts to be awarded without full and open competition.

Applies to: Contracting for community services at military installations closing under the cited base closure laws

Key terms: other than full and open competition · local governments · community services · military installations · base closure

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The text

This subpart prescribes procedures for contracting, through use of other than full and open competition, with local governments for police, fire protection, airfield operation, or other community services at military installations to be closed under the Defense Authorization Amendments and Base Closure and Realignment Act (Pub. L. 100-526), as amended, and the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Act of 1990 (Pub. L. 101-510), as amended.

← 237.7303 Contract clauses. · 237.7401 Policy. →

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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