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

FAR 52.214-22 Evaluation of Bids for Multiple Awards.

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 bidders that the Government may make more than one award under a solicitation, and that bids will be evaluated on the advantages and disadvantages of doing so. For evaluation purposes, the Government assumes a $500 administrative cost for each contract awarded, and awards go to the items or combinations that produce the lowest total cost to the Government including those assumed costs.

Applies to: Bidders on solicitations that allow multiple awards

Key terms: multiple awards · administrative cost · lowest aggregate cost · solicitation

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The text

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

Evaluation of Bids for Multiple Awards (MAR 1990)

In addition to other factors, bids will be evaluated on the basis of advantages and disadvantages to the Government that might result from making more than one award (multiple awards). It is assumed, for the purpose of evaluating bids, that $500 would be the administrative cost to the Government for issuing and administering each contract awarded under this solicitation, and individual awards will be for the items or combinations of items that result in the lowest aggregate cost to the Government, including the assumed administrative costs.

(End of provision)

Sections it refers to

Sections that refer to it

← 52.214-21 Descriptive Literature. · 52.214-23 Late submissions, modifications, revisions, and withdrawals of technical proposals under two-step sealed bidding. →

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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