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FAR 25.200 Scope of subpart.

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 what the Buy American subpart covers. It implements several laws and executive orders about domestic content, and it applies to contracts for construction, alteration, or repair of public buildings or public works in the United States. It also points to a separate subpart for Recovery Act construction projects.

Applies to: Contracts for construction, alteration, or repair of public buildings or public works in the United States

Key terms: Buy American · commercially available off-the-shelf (COTS) items · domestic content test · public building · public work

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

The text

(a) This subpart implements—

(1) 41 U.S.C. chapter 83, Buy American;

(2) Executive Order 10582, December 17, 1954;

(3) Executive Order 13881, July 15, 2019;

(4) Executive Order 14005, January 25, 2021; and

(5) Waiver of the domestic content test of the Buy American statute for acquisitions of commercially available off-the-shelf (COTS) items in accordance with 41 U.S.C. 1907, but see 25.201(b)(2)(ii).

(b) It applies to contracts for the construction, alteration, or repair of any public building or public work in the United States.

(c) When using funds appropriated or otherwise provided by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Pub. L. 111-5) (Recovery Act) for construction, see subpart 25.6.

Sections it refers to

← 25.106 Determining reasonableness of cost. · 25.201 Policy. →

Rule changes for FAR Part 25

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

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