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

FAR 52.214-15 Period for Acceptance of Bids.

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 says that when a bidder submits a bid, the bidder agrees to keep the bid open for a set number of calendar days after the bid receipt date. If the government accepts the bid within that period, the bidder must supply the items at the bid prices and deliver them as specified. It matters because it sets how long a contractor's bid remains binding.

Applies to: Bidders responding to a solicitation that includes this provision

What it requires

  • Agree to keep the bid open for the stated calendar days from the bid receipt date
  • If the bid is accepted within that period, furnish the items at the bid prices
  • Deliver to the designated point(s) within the time specified in the Schedule

Key terms: calendar days · date specified in the solicitation for receipt of bids · Schedule · bidder

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

The text

As prescribed in 14.201-6(i), insert the following provision:

Period for Acceptance of Bids (APR 1984)

In compliance with the solicitation, the bidder agrees, if this bid is accepted within __ calendar days (60 calendar days unless a different period is inserted by the bidder) from the date specified in the solicitation for receipt of bids, to furnish any or all items upon which prices are bid at the price set opposite each item, delivered at the designated point(s), within the time specified in the Schedule.

(End of provision)

Sections it refers to

Sections that refer to it

← 52.214-14 Place of Performance—Sealed Bidding. · 52.214-16 Minimum Bid Acceptance Period. →

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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