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DFARS 242.1502 Policy.

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 sets rules for how past performance evaluations are recorded in the Contractor Performance Assessment Reporting System (CPARS). It requires evaluations to cover a contractor's progress toward small business subcontracting goals, note certain denials of cost or pricing data requests, and include compliance with sea transportation requirements. These evaluations can affect how a contractor is viewed in future award decisions.

Applies to: Contracting officers preparing past performance evaluations in CPARS

What it requires

  • Include an assessment of performance against and efforts to achieve goals in the comprehensive small business subcontracting plan when the contract has the clause at 252.219-7004
  • Unless exempted by the head of the contracting activity, include a notation on contractors that denied multiple requests for data other than certified cost or pricing data over the preceding 3-year period but still received an award
  • Include information on contractor compliance with the clause at 252.247-7023, Transportation of Supplies by Sea

Key terms: Contractor Performance Assessment Reporting System · comprehensive small business subcontracting plan · certified cost or pricing data · Transportation of Supplies by Sea

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

The text

(g) Past performance evaluations in the Contractor Performance Assessment Reporting System—

(i) Shall include an assessment of the contractor's performance against, and efforts to achieve, the goals identified in its comprehensive small business subcontracting plan when the contract contains the clause at 252.219-7004, Small Business Subcontracting Plan (Test Program);

(ii) Shall, unless exempted by the head of the contracting activity, include a notation on contractors that have denied multiple requests for submission of data other than certified cost or pricing data over the preceding 3-year period, but nevertheless received an award (10 U.S.C. 3705(b)(2)(B)); and

(iii) In accordance with 10 U.S.C. 2631(d), shall include information on contractor compliance with requirements of the clause at 252.247-7023, Transportation of Supplies by Sea (see 10 U.S.C. 2631(a), (b), and (c)).

Sections it refers to

Sections that refer to it

← 242.1204 Applicability of novation agreements. · 242.7000 Contractor business system deficiencies. →

Rule changes for DFARS Part 242

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

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