FAR and DFARS › FAR Part 37: Service Contracting › Subpart 37.6
FAR 37.604 Quality assurance surveillance plans.
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 points to Subpart 46.4 for the requirements on quality assurance and quality assurance surveillance plans. It also explains that the Government may either prepare the quality assurance surveillance plan itself or ask offerors to submit a proposed plan for the Government to consider when developing its own plan.
Applies to: Contractors and offerors involved in contracts where quality assurance surveillance plans are required
Key terms: quality assurance · quality assurance surveillance plan · offerors · Government
Written by AI from this section's text. A guide, not legal advice: the text below rules.
The text
Requirements for quality assurance and quality assurance surveillance plans are in Subpart 46.4. The Government may either prepare the quality assurance surveillance plan or require the offerors to submit a proposed quality assurance surveillance plan for the Government's consideration in development of the Government's plan.
← 37.603 Performance standards.
Rule changes for FAR Part 37
- Federal Acquisition Regulation: Revolutionary Federal Acquisition Regulation Overhaul Parts 6, 7, 10, 18, 26, 37, and 41 ↗ · proposed 2026-06-23 · comments due 2026-07-23
- Federal Acquisition Regulation: Preventing Organizational Conflicts of Interest in Federal Acquisition ↗ · proposed 2025-01-15 · comments due 2025-03-17
- Federal Acquisition Regulation: Sustainable Procurement ↗ · final rule 2024-04-22 · effective 2024-05-22
Source: eCFR, 48 CFR chapters 1 and 2 (GPO GovInfo bulk data) ↗. Plain words for the terms: glossary.