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FAR and DFARS › FAR Part 36: Construction and Architect-engineer Contracts › Subpart 36.6

FAR 36.609-2 Redesign responsibility for design errors or deficiencies.

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 makes architect-engineer contractors responsible for fixing errors, deficiencies, or inadequacies in their designs, drawings, specifications, or other furnished items or services at no cost to the Government. If the Government decides not to require correction in a given situation, the contracting officer must document the reasons in the contract file. It also directs contracting officers to include the clause at 52.236-23 in fixed-price architect-engineer contracts.

Applies to: Architect-engineer contractors and contracting officers on architect-engineer contracts

What it requires

  • Make necessary corrections at no cost to the Government when furnished designs, drawings, specifications, or other items or services contain errors, deficiencies, or inadequacies
  • Contracting officer must include a written statement of reasons in the contract file if the Government does not require a firm to correct such errors
  • Contracting officer must insert the clause at 52.236-23 in fixed-price architect-engineer contracts

Key terms: architect-engineer contracts · errors, deficiencies, or inadequacies · contracting officer · contract file · 52.236-23

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

The text

(a) Under architect-engineer contracts, contractors shall be required to make necessary corrections at no cost to the Government when the designs, drawings, specifications, or other items or services furnished contain any errors, deficiencies, or inadequacies. If, in a given situation, the Government does not require a firm to correct such errors, the contracting officer shall include a written statement of the reasons for that decision in the contract file.

(b) The contracting officer shall insert the clause at 52.236-23, Responsibility of the Architect-Engineer Contractor, in fixed-price architect-engineer contracts.

Sections it refers to

  • 52.236-23 Responsibility of the Architect-Engineer Contractor.

Sections that refer to it

  • 52.236-23 Responsibility of the Architect-Engineer Contractor.

← 36.609-1 Design within funding limitations. · 36.609-3 Work oversight in architect-engineer contracts. →

Rule changes for FAR Part 36

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

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