FAR and DFARS › FAR Part 32: Contract Financing › Subpart 32.10
FAR 32.1002 Bases for performance-based payments.
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.
The text
Performance-based payments may be made on any of the following bases:
(a) Performance measured by objective, quantifiable methods.
(b) Accomplishment of defined events.
(c) Other quantifiable measures of results.
← 32.1001 Policy. · 32.1003 Criteria for use. →
Rule changes for FAR Part 32
- Federal Acquisition Regulation: Inflation Adjustment of Acquisition-Related Thresholds ↗ · final rule 2025-08-27 · effective 2025-10-01
- Federal Acquisition Regulation; Technical Amendments ↗ · final rule 2025-08-07 · effective 2025-08-07
- Federal Acquisition Regulation: Inflation Adjustment of Acquisition-Related Thresholds ↗ · proposed 2024-11-29 · comments due 2025-01-28
Source: eCFR, 48 CFR chapters 1 and 2 (GPO GovInfo bulk data) ↗. Plain words for the terms: glossary.