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

FAR 52.207-2 Notice of Streamlined 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 streamlined competition under OMB Circular A-76 to decide whether the work will be done by contract or by Government performance. The Government will compare the cost of private sector performance against Agency or public reimbursable performance, and the resulting decision will be publicly announced. If private sector performance wins, the Contracting Officer will either award a contract or issue a competitive solicitation; if Government performance wins, the Agency will set up a letter of obligation or a fee-for-service agreement.

Applies to: Solicitations for work subject to a streamlined competition under OMB Circular A-76

Key terms: streamlined competition · Office of Management and Budget Circular No. A-76 · private sector performance · Agency or public reimbursable performance · performance decision

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

The text

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

Notice of Streamlined Competition (MAY 2006)

(a) This solicitation is part of a streamlined 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 the cost of private sector and Agency or public reimbursable performance, as provided in this solicitation and the Circular.

(c) A performance decision resulting from this streamlined competition will be publicly announced in accordance with the Circular. If the performance decision favors private sector performance, the Contracting Officer shall either award a contract or issue a competitive solicitation for private sector offers. If the performance decision favors Agency or public reimbursable performance, the Agency shall establish, respectively, either a letter of obligation or a fee-for-service agreement, as those terms are defined in the Circular.

(End of provision)

Sections it refers to

  • 7.305 Solicitation provisions and contract clause.

Sections that refer to it

  • 7.305 Solicitation provisions and contract clause.

← 52.207-1 Notice of Standard Competition. · 52.207-3 Right of First Refusal of Employment. →

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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