FAR and DFARS › FAR Part 33: Protests, Disputes, and Appeals › Subpart 33.2
FAR 33.215 Contract clauses.
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 tells contracting officers which dispute-related clauses to include in solicitations and contracts. It matters to contractors because it determines whether the Disputes clause, and possibly its Alternate I requiring continued performance during a claim, will appear in their contract, and it requires the clause at 52.233-4 in all solicitations and contracts.
Applies to: Solicitations and contracts, and the contracting officers who issue them
What it requires
- Insert the clause at 52.233-1, Disputes, in solicitations and contracts unless the conditions in 33.203(b) apply
- Use the Disputes clause with Alternate I if agency procedures determine continued performance is necessary pending resolution of a claim
- Insert the clause at 52.233-4 in all solicitations and contracts
Key terms: 52.233-1, Disputes · Alternate I · 52.233-4 · claim · continued performance
Written by AI from this section's text. A guide, not legal advice: the text below rules.
The text
(a) Insert the clause at 52.233-1, Disputes, in solicitations and contracts, unless the conditions in 33.203(b) apply. If it is determined under agency procedures that continued performance is necessary pending resolution of any claim arising under or relating to the contract, the contracting officer shall use the clause with its Alternate I.
(b) Insert the clause at 52.233-4 in all solicitations and contracts.
Sections it refers to
← 33.214 Alternative dispute resolution (ADR).
Rule changes for FAR Part 33
- Federal Acquisition Regulation: Revolutionary Federal Acquisition Regulation Overhaul Parts 1, 2, 4, 33, 39, 40, and 53 ↗ · proposed 2026-06-23 · comments due 2026-07-23
- Federal Acquisition Regulation; Technical Amendments ↗ · final rule 2025-05-12 · effective 2025-06-11
- Federal Acquisition Regulation: Controlled Unclassified Information ↗ · proposed 2025-01-15 · comments due 2025-03-17
- Federal Acquisition Regulation: Improving Consistency Between Procurement and Nonprocurement Procedures on Suspension and Debarment ↗ · final rule 2025-01-03 · effective 2025-01-17
- Federal Acquisition Regulation: Improving Consistency Between Procurement and Nonprocurement Procedures on Suspension and Debarment ↗ · proposed 2024-01-09 · comments due 2024-03-11
Source: eCFR, 48 CFR chapters 1 and 2 (GPO GovInfo bulk data) ↗. Plain words for the terms: glossary.