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FAR 7.305 Solicitation provisions and contract clause.

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 section tells contracting officers which solicitation provisions and contract clause to include for standard competitions, streamlined competitions, and situations where work may shift from Government in-house performance to a contractor. It matters to contractors because it determines what notices they will see in a solicitation and whether a right of first refusal of employment clause will appear in the resulting contract.

Applies to: Contracting officers issuing solicitations and contracts for competitions or conversions from in-house to contract performance

What it requires

  • Insert the provision at 52.207-1 in solicitations for standard competitions
  • Insert the provision at 52.207-2 in solicitations for streamlined competitions
  • Insert the clause at 52.207-3 in solicitations that may result in conversion from in-house to contract performance and in resulting contracts
  • May vary the 10-day period in the clause up to 90 days

Key terms: standard competition · streamlined competition · conversion from in-house performance to contract performance · Right of First Refusal of Employment · public-private competition

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

The text

(a) The contracting officer shall, when soliciting offers and tenders, insert in solicitations issued for standard competitions the provision at 52.207-1, Notice of Standard Competition.

(b) The contracting officer shall, when soliciting offers, insert in solicitations issued for streamlined competitions the provision at 52.207-2, Notice of Streamlined Competition.

(c) The contracting officer shall insert the clause at 52.207-3, Right of First Refusal of Employment, in all solicitations which may result in a conversion from in-house performance to contract performance of work currently being performed by the Government and in contracts that result from the solicitations, whether or not a public-private competition is conducted. The 10-day period in the clause may be varied by the contracting officer up to a period of 90 days.

Sections it refers to

  • 52.207-1 Notice of Standard Competition.
  • 52.207-2 Notice of Streamlined Competition.
  • 52.207-3 Right of First Refusal of Employment.

Sections that refer to it

  • 52.207-1 Notice of Standard Competition.
  • 52.207-2 Notice of Streamlined Competition.
  • 52.207-3 Right of First Refusal of Employment.

← 7.303-7.304 [Reserved] · 7.400 Scope of subpart. →

Rule changes for FAR Part 7

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

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