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FAR and DFARS › FAR Part 52: Solicitation Provisions and Contract Clauses › Subpart 52.2

FAR 52.207-1 Notice of Standard Competition.

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 provision tells offerors that the solicitation is part of a standard competition under OMB Circular A-76 to decide whether the work will be done by contract or by Government performance. The Government will evaluate private sector offers alongside agency and public reimbursable tenders, and the resulting performance decision will be publicly announced. If the decision favors a private sector offeror, a contract will be awarded; otherwise, the Contracting Officer establishes an MEO letter of obligation or a fee-for-service agreement.

Applies to: Offerors responding to a solicitation that is part of a standard competition under OMB Circular A-76

Key terms: standard competition · agency tender · public reimbursable tender · Most Efficient Organization letter of obligation · fee-for-service agreement

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

The text

As prescribed in 7.305(a), insert the following provision:

Notice of Standard Competition (MAY 2006)

(a) This solicitation is part of a standard competition under Office of Management and Budget Circular No. A-76 (Revised), Performance of Commercial Activities, dated May 29, 2003 (hereafter “the Circular”), to determine whether to accomplish the specified work under contract or by Government performance.

(b) The Government will evaluate private sector offers, the agency tender, and public reimbursable tenders, as provided in this solicitation and the Circular.

(c) A performance decision resulting from this standard competition will be publicly announced in accordance with the Circular. If the performance decision favors a private sector offeror, a contract will be awarded. If the performance decision favors an agency or a public reimbursable tender, the Contracting Officer shall establish, respectively, either a Most Efficient Organization letter of obligation or a fee-for-service agreement, as those terms are defined in the Circular.

(d) As provided in the Circular, directly interested parties may file contests, which are governed by the procedures in Federal Acquisition Regulation 33.103. Until resolution of any contest, or the expiration of the time for filing a contest, only legal agents for directly interested parties shall have access to the certified standard competition form, the agency tender, and public reimbursable tenders.

(End of provision)

Sections it refers to

  • 7.305 Solicitation provisions and contract clause.
  • 33.103 Protests to the agency.

Sections that refer to it

  • 7.305 Solicitation provisions and contract clause.

← 52.205-52.206 [Reserved] · 52.207-2 Notice of Streamlined Competition. →

Rule changes for FAR Part 52

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

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