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FAR and DFARS › FAR Part 36: Construction and Architect-engineer Contracts › Subpart 36.7

FAR 36.701 Standard and optional forms for use in contracting for construction or dismantling, demolition, or removal of improvements.

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 standard and optional forms to use when buying construction, dismantling, demolition, or removal of improvements. It matters because it affects how offers are solicited, submitted, and awarded, and which forms a contractor may see or need to complete.

Applies to: Contracting officers and contractors involved in construction, dismantling, demolition, or removal of improvements contracts

What it requires

  • Use Standard Form 1442 to solicit and submit offers and award covered contracts expected to exceed the simplified acquisition threshold
  • In sealed bid solicitations, or when the Government otherwise requires a noncancellable offer acceptance period, insert in Block 13D the number of calendar days the offer must be available for acceptance after offers are due
  • If using Optional Form 347 for covered contracts at or below the simplified acquisition threshold, include the clauses required under subpart 36.5

Key terms: Standard Form 1442 · Optional Form 347 · Optional Form 1419 · Optional Form 1419A · simplified acquisition threshold

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

The text

(a) Standard Form 1442, Solicitation, Offer, and Award (Construction, Alteration, or Repair), shall be used to solicit and submit offers, and award construction or dismantling, demolition, or removal of improvements contracts expected to exceed the simplified acquisition threshold, and may be used for contracts at or below the simplified acquisition threshold. In all sealed bid solicitations, or when the Government otherwise requires a noncancellable offer acceptance period, the contracting officer shall insert in the blank provided in Block 13D the number of calendar days that the offer must be available for acceptance after the date offers are due.

(b) Optional Form 347, Order for Supplies or Services, may be used for construction or dismantling, demolition, or removal of improvements contracts that are at or below the simplified acquisition threshold provided, that the contracting officer includes the clauses required (see subpart 36.5) in the simplified acquisitions (see part 13).

(c) Contracting officers may use Optional Form 1419, Abstract of Offers—Construction, and Optional Form 1419A, Abstract of Offers—Construction, Continuation Sheet, or the automated equivalents to record offers submitted in response to a sealed bid solicitation (see 14.403) and may also use them to record offers submitted in response to negotiated solicitations.

Sections it refers to

Sections that refer to it

  • 13.003 Policy.
  • 19.811-1 Sole source.
  • 53.213 Simplified acquisition procedures (SF's 18, 30, 44, 1165, and 1449, and OF's 336, 347, and 348).
  • 53.236-1 Construction.

← 36.700 Scope of subpart. · 36.702 Forms for use in contracting for architect-engineer services. →

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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