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FAR 8.002 Priorities for use of mandatory Government sources.

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 sets the order of priority agencies must follow when buying supplies and services from mandatory Government sources, starting with the requiring agency's own inventories and ending with certain wholesale supply sources. It matters to contractors because it limits when agencies can buy from commercial sources, and it also extends the Committee for Purchase From People Who Are Blind or Severely Disabled obligation to contractors purchasing supplies or services for Government use.

Applies to: Agencies satisfying requirements for supplies and services, and contractors purchasing for Government use

What it requires

  • Agencies shall satisfy requirements for supplies and services from or through the mandatory Government sources and publications in descending order of priority
  • Contractors purchasing supplies or services for Government use must satisfy the statutory obligation for supplies or services available from the Committee for Purchase From People Who Are Blind or Severely Disabled

Key terms: mandatory Government sources · Procurement List · Committee for Purchase From People Who Are Blind or Severely Disabled · unusual and compelling urgency · descending order of priority

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

The text

(a) Except as required by 8.003, or as otherwise provided by law, agencies shall satisfy requirements for supplies and services from or through the mandatory Government sources and publications listed below in descending order of priority:

(1) Supplies. (i) Inventories of the requiring agency.

(ii) Excess from other agencies (see subpart 8.1).

(iii) Federal Prison Industries, Inc. (see subpart 8.6).

(iv) Supplies that are on the Procurement List maintained by the Committee for Purchase From People Who Are Blind or Severely Disabled (see Subpart 8.7).

(v) Wholesale supply sources, such as stock programs of the General Services Administration (GSA) (see 41 CFR 101-26.3), the Defense Logistics Agency (see 41 CFR 101-26.6), the Department of Veterans Affairs (see 41 CFR 101-26.704), and military inventory control points.

(2) Services. Services that are on the Procurement List maintained by the Committee for Purchase From People Who Are Blind or Severely Disabled (see subpart 8.7).

(b) Sources other than those listed in paragraph (a) of this section may be used as prescribed in 41 CFR 101-26.301 and in an unusual and compelling urgency as prescribed in 6.302-2 and in 41 CFR 101-25.101-5.

(c) The statutory obligation for Government agencies to satisfy their requirements for supplies or services available from the Committee for Purchase From People Who Are Blind or Severely Disabled also applies when contractors purchase the supplies or services for Government use.

Sections it refers to

  • 8.003 Use of other mandatory sources.
  • 26.301 [Reserved]
  • 6.302-2 Unusual and compelling urgency.

Sections that refer to it

  • 7.102 Policy.
  • 7.107-1 General.
  • 8.004 Use of other sources.
  • 19.815 Release and notification requirements for non-8(a) procurement.
  • 19.1504 Exclusions.
  • 208.7003-2 Assignments under coordinated acquisition.
  • 213.301 Governmentwide commercial purchase card.

← 8.001 General. · 8.003 Use of other mandatory sources. →

Rule changes for FAR Part 8

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

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