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FAR and DFARS › FAR Part 32: Contract Financing › Subpart 32.5

FAR 32.502-1 Use of customary progress 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.

In plain English

This section allows the contracting officer to include a Progress Payments clause in solicitations and contracts under this subpart. It also requires the contracting officer to reject as nonresponsive any bid that is conditioned on progress payments when the solicitation did not provide for them.

Applies to: Contracting officers and bidders on solicitations that do or do not provide for progress payments

What it requires

  • Reject as nonresponsive bids conditioned on progress payments when the solicitation did not provide for progress payments

Key terms: Progress Payments clause · solicitations · contracts · nonresponsive bids · progress payments

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The text

The contracting officer may use a Progress Payments clause in solicitations and contracts, in accordance with this subpart. The contracting officer must reject as nonresponsive bids conditioned on progress payments when the solicitation did not provide for progress payments.

← 32.502 Preaward matters. · 32.502-2 Contract finance office clearance. →

Rule changes for FAR Part 32

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

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