48 CFR · Federal Acquisition Regulation and Defense supplement

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47 sections with “Assembly”: the first 40

  • DFARS 239.7409 Special assembly.
    (a) Special assembly is the designing, manufacturing, arranging, assembling, or wiring of equipment to provide telecommunications services that cannot be provided with general use equipment. (b) Special assembly rates and charges shall be …
  • FAR 46.710 Contract clauses.
    …d that recovery of the warranted item will involve considerable Government expense for disassembly and/or reassembly of larger items, the contracting officer may use the clause with its Alternate V. (b)(1) The contracting officer may inser…
  • DFARS 252.211-7003 Item Unique Identification and Valuation.
    …ss of items with the same form, fit, function, and interface. Parent item means the item assembly, intermediate component, or subassembly that has an embedded item with a unique item identifier or DoD recognized unique identification equiv…
  • DFARS 252.246-7006 Warranty Tracking of Serialized Items.
    …rrective action ends. Installation means the date a unit is inserted into a higher level assembly in order to make that assembly operational. Issuing agency means an organization responsible for assigning a globally unique identifier to a…
  • FAR 52.246-17 Warranty of Supplies of a Noncomplex Nature.
    …d that recovery of the warranted item will involve considerable Government expense for disassembly and/or reassembly of larger items, add a paragraph substantially the same as the following paragraph (c)(6) to the basic clause. Redesignate …
  • FAR 52.246-18 Warranty of Supplies of a Complex Nature.
    …d that recovery of the warranted item will involve considerable Government expense for disassembly and/or reassembly of larger items, add a paragraph substantially the same as the following paragraph (c)(6) to the basic clause. Redesignate …
  • FAR 52.246-19 Warranty of Systems and Equipment under Performance Specifications or Design Criteria.
    …d that recovery of the warranted item will involve considerable Government expense for disassembly and/or reassembly of larger items, add a paragraph substantially the same as the following paragraph (c)(7) to the basic clause. Redesignate …
  • DFARS 209.270-2 Definitions.
    As used in this section— Aviation critical safety item means a part, an assembly, installation equipment, launch equipment, recovery equipment, or support equipment for an aircraft or aviation weapon system if the part, assembly, or equipm…
  • DFARS 211.274-2 Policy for item unique identification.
    …rdless of value for any— (i) DoD serially managed item (reparable or nonreparable) or subassembly, component, or part embedded within a subassembly, component, or part; (ii) Parent item (as defined in 252.211-7003(a)) that contains the em…
  • DFARS 252.209-7010 Critical Safety Items.
    …Safety Items (AUG 2011) (a) Definitions. Aviation critical safety item means a part, an assembly, installation equipment, launch equipment, recovery equipment, or support equipment for an aircraft or aviation weapon system if the part, as…
  • DFARS 252.225-7052 Restriction on the Acquisition of Certain Magnets, Tantalum, and Tungsten.
    …ain Magnets, Tantalum, and Tungsten (May 2024) (a) Definitions. As used in this clause— Assembly means an item forming a portion of a system or subsystem that— (1) Can be provisioned and replaced as an entity; and (2) Incorporates multi…
  • FAR 27.409 Solicitation provisions and contract clauses
    …ent, or production of a major system and contracts for any individual part, component, subassembly, assembly, or subsystem integral to the major system, and other property that may be replaced during the service life of the system, includin…
  • FAR 34.101 Definitions.
    Item of supply, as used in this subpart, means any individual part, component, subassembly, assembly, or subsystem integral to a major system, and other property which may be replaced during the service life of the system. The term includes…
  • FAR 52.246-26 Reporting Nonconforming Items.
    …rom another source (e.g., seller, customer, third party) that any end item, component, subassembly, part, or material contained in supplies purchased by the Contractor for delivery to, or for, the Government is counterfeit or suspect counte…
  • DFARS 204.7104-1 Criteria for establishing.
    …lates directly to the contract line item and is an integral part of it (e.g., parts of an assembly or parts of a kit). These subline items shall not be scheduled separately for delivery, identified separately for shipment or performance, or…
  • DFARS 225.7018-3 Exceptions.
    …lock, blank, plate, or sheet, that has not been incorporated into an end item, subsystem, assembly, or component; or (iii) Effective January 1, 2027, a covered material that is a mill product such as bar, billet, slab, wire, cube, sphere, …
  • DFARS 228.370-1 Definitions.
    …actor's possession, care, custody, or control regardless of their location or state of disassembly or reassembly; (2) Items removed from a Government-furnished aircraft that are— (i) Intended for reinstallation on that particular aircraft…
  • DFARS 252.225-7009 Restriction on Acquisition of Certain Articles Containing Specialty Metals.
    …ts in the alloy, and together they constitute 50 percent or more of the alloy (by mass). Assembly means an item forming a portion of a system or subsystem that— (i) Can be provisioned and replaced as an entity; and (ii) Incorporates mult…
  • DFARS 252.228-7001 Ground and Flight Risk.
    …actor's possession, care, custody, or control regardless of their location or state of disassembly or reassembly; (2) Items removed from a Government furnished aircraft that are— (i) Intended for reinstallation on that particular aircraft…
  • DFARS 252.246-7003 Notification of Potential Safety Issues.
    …e belief that an event has occurred or will occur. Critical safety item means a part, subassembly, assembly, subsystem, installation equipment, or support equipment for a system that contains a characteristic, any failure, malfunction, or …
  • DFARS 252.246-7007 Contractor Counterfeit Electronic Part Detection and Avoidance System.
    …including, but not limited to, a transistor, capacitor, resistor, or diode), or a circuit assembly (section 818(f)(2) of Pub. L. 112-81). Obsolete electronic part means an electronic part that is no longer available from the original manuf…
  • DFARS 252.246-7008 Sources of Electronic Parts.
    …including, but not limited to, a transistor, capacitor, resistor, or diode), or a circuit assembly (section 818(f)(2) of Pub. L. 112-81). Original component manufacturer means an organization that designs and/or engineers a part and is ent…
  • FAR 2.101 Definitions.
    …act, showing in detail either or both of the following: (1) The proposed fabrication and assembly of structural elements. (2) The installation (i.e., form, fit, and attachment details) of materials or equipment. Should means an expected …
  • FAR 4.1004 Establishing subline items.
    …n that relates directly to the line item and is an integral part of it (e.g., parts of an assembly or parts of a kit). (2) Position informational subline items within the line item description, not in the quantity or price fields.
  • FAR 9.505-1 Providing systems engineering and technical direction.
    …ut does not have overall contractual responsibility for its development, its integration, assembly, and checkout, or its production shall not— (1) Be awarded a contract to supply the system or any of its major components; or (2) Be a subc…
  • FAR 13.302-2 Unpriced purchase orders.
    … the purchase order; and (2) The purchase is for— (i) Repairs to equipment requiring disassembly to determine the nature and extent of repairs; (ii) Material available from only one source and for which cost cannot readily be established…
  • FAR 17.106-1 General.
    …ilities to be acquired or established for the conduct of the work, costs incurred for the assembly, training, and transportation to and from the job site of a specialized work force, and unrealized labor learning. They shall not include any…
  • FAR 45.101 Definitions.
    …be consumed or expended during the performance of a contract, component parts of a higher assembly, or items that lose their individual identity through incorporation into an end-item. Material does not include equipment, special tooling, s…
  • FAR 46.203 Criteria for use of contract quality requirements.
    … measurements, tests, and controls applied during purchasing, manufacturing, performance, assembly, and functional operation either as an individual item or in conjunction with other items. (2) Noncomplex items have quality characteristics…
  • FAR 46.402 Government contract quality assurance at source.
    …spection, at source if— (a) Performance at any other place would require uneconomical disassembly or destructive testing; (b) Considerable loss would result from the manufacture and shipment of unacceptable supplies, or from the delay in …
  • FAR 52.212-3 Offeror Representations and Certifications—Commercial Products and Commercial Services.
    … provided to the Government. If a product is disassembled and reassembled, the place of reassembly is not the place of manufacture. Predecessor means an entity that is replaced by a successor and includes any predecessors of the predecesso…
  • FAR 52.214-21 Descriptive Literature.
    …ials; (3) Components; (4) Performance characteristics; and (5) Methods of manufacture, assembly, construction, or operation. (c) Descriptive literature, required elsewhere in this solicitation, shall be— (1) Identified to show the item…
  • FAR 52.217-2 Cancellation Under Multiyear Contracts.
    …ed to the contract through overhead or otherwise depreciated; (3) Costs incurred for the assembly, training, and transportation to and from the job site of a specialized work force; and (4) Costs not amortized solely because the cancellat…
  • FAR 52.225-18 Place of Manufacture.
    … provided to the Government. If a product is disassembled and reassembled, the place of reassembly is not the place of manufacture. (b) For statistical purposes only, the offeror shall indicate whether the place of manufacture of the end p…
  • FAR 52.227-6 Royalty Information.
    …When the response to this solicitation covers charges for special construction or special assembly that contain costs or charges for royalties totaling more than $250, the following information shall be included in the response relating to …
  • FAR 52.236-21 Specifications and Drawings for Construction.
    …r pursuant to a construction contract, showing in detail (1) the proposed fabrication and assembly of structural elements and (2) the installation (i.e., form, fit, and attachment details) of materials or equipment. It includes drawings, di…
  • FAR 52.245-1 Government Property.
    …be consumed or expended during the performance of a contract, component parts of a higher assembly, or items that lose their individual identity through incorporation into an end item. Material does not include equipment, special tooling, s…
  • FAR 52.248-2 Value Engineering—Architect-Engineer.
    …ing Officer for approval; and (3) The team leader shall be responsible for prestudy work assembly and shall edit, reproduce, and sign the final report and each VEP. All VEP's, even if submitted earlier as an individual submission, shall be…
  • DFARS 202.101 Definitions.
    …including, but not limited to, a transistor, capacitor, resistor, or diode), or a circuit assembly (section 818(f)(2) of Pub. L. 112-81). Executive agency means for DoD, the Department of Defense, the Department of the Army, the Department…
  • DFARS 217.171 Multiyear contracts for services.
    …plant or equipment; or (ii) The incurrence of substantial contingent liabilities for the assembly, training, or transportation of a specialized work force; and (3) Using a multiyear contract will promote the best interests of the United S…

FAR (chapter 1)

DFARS (chapter 2, Defense)

Source: eCFR, 48 CFR chapters 1 and 2 (GPO GovInfo bulk data) ↗. Rule changes in progress: FAR, DFARS. Terms: glossary.