FAR and DFARS › FAR Part 41: Acquisition of Utility Services › Subpart 41.7
FAR 41.701 Formats for utility service specifications.
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 describes optional specification formats for acquiring utility services such as electric, water, steam, sewage, and natural gas service. It explains that contracting officers may modify these formats and add technical details, ownership and maintenance information, maps, and other items needed to define service conditions. The specifications and attachments must be placed in Section C of the utility service solicitation and contract.
Applies to: Utility service solicitations and contracts
What it requires
- Insert the specifications and attachments in Section C of the utility service solicitation and contract.
Key terms: utility services · specification formats · contracting officers · Section C · service conditions
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The text
(a) The following specification formats for use in acquiring utility services are available from the address specified at 41.301(a) and may be used and modified at the agency's discretion:
(1) Electric service.
(2) Water service.
(3) Steam service.
(4) Sewage service.
(5) Natural gas service.
(b) Contracting officers may modify the specification format referenced in paragraph (a) of this section and attach technical items, details on Government ownership of equipment and real property and maintenance or repair obligations, maps or drawings of delivery points, and other information deemed necessary to fully define the service conditions.
(c) The specifications and attachments (see paragraph (b) of this section) shall be inserted in Section C of the utility service solicitation and contract.
Sections it refers to
- 41.301 Requirements.
← 41.601 Utility services forms. · 41.702 Formats for annual utility service review. →
Rule changes for FAR Part 41
- 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
Source: eCFR, 48 CFR chapters 1 and 2 (GPO GovInfo bulk data) ↗. Plain words for the terms: glossary.