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

FAR 52.232-15 Progress Payments Not Included.

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 solicitation does not include a progress payments clause and that no such clause will be added when the contract is awarded. Any bid that makes its acceptance conditional on getting a progress payments clause will be rejected as nonresponsive.

Applies to: Bidders on solicitations that do not include a progress payments clause

What it requires

  • Do not condition your bid on the inclusion of a progress payments clause in the resulting contract.

Key terms: progress payments clause · solicitation · resulting contract · nonresponsive

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

The text

As prescribed in 32.502-3(c), insert the following provision in invitations for bids if the solicitation will not contain one of the provisions prescribed in 32.502-3 (a) and (b):

Progress Payments Not Included (APR 1984)

A progress payments clause is not included in this solicitation, and will not be added to the resulting contract at the time of award. Bids conditioned upon inclusion of a progress payment clause in the resulting contract will be rejected as nonresponsive.

(End of provision)

Sections it refers to

Sections that refer to it

← 52.232-14 Notice of Availability of Progress Payments Exclusively for Small Business Concerns. · 52.232-16 Progress Payments. →

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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