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48 CFR · Federal Acquisition Regulation and Defense supplement

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  • FAR 52.219-16 Liquidated Damages—Subcontracting Plan.
    As prescribed in 19.708(b)(2), insert the following clause: Liquidated Damages—Subcontracting Plan (SEP 2021) (a) Failure to make a good faith effort to comply with the subcontracting plan, as used in this clause, means a willful or inten…
  • FAR 52.229-6 Taxes—Foreign Fixed-Price Contracts.
    As prescribed in 29.402-1(a), insert the following clause: Taxes—Foreign Fixed-Price Contracts (FEB 2013) (a) To the extent that this contract provides for furnishing supplies or performing services outside the United States and its outly…
  • FAR 52.229-7 Taxes—Fixed-Price Contracts With Foreign Governments.
    As prescribed in 29.402-1(b), insert the following clause: Taxes—Fixed—Price Contracts With Foreign Governments (FEB 2013) (a) Contract date, as used in this clause, means the date set for bid opening or, if this is a negotiated contract …
  • FAR 3.104-6 Ethics advisory opinions regarding prohibitions on a former official's acceptance of compensation from a contractor.
    …recluded by 41 U.S.C. 2104 (see 3.104-3(d)) from accepting compensation from a particular contractor may request advice from the appropriate agency ethics official before accepting such compensation. (b) The request for an advisory opinion…
  • FAR 4.803 Contents of contract files.
    The following are examples of the records normally contained, if applicable, in contract files: (a) Contracting office contract file. (1) Purchase request, acquisition planning information, and other presolicitation documents. (2) Justifi…
  • FAR 4.804-1 Closeout by the office administering the contract.
    (a) Except as provided in paragraph (c) of this section, time standards for closing out contract files are as follows: (1) Files for contracts using simplified acquisition procedures should be considered closed when the contracting officer…
  • FAR 4.804-5 Procedures for closing out contract files.
    (a) The contract administration office is responsible for initiating (automated or manual) administrative closeout of the contract after receiving evidence of its physical completion. At the outset of this process, the contract administrati…
  • FAR 4.903 Reporting contract information to the IRS.
    …ies to report certain information to the IRS. (b)(1) The required information applies to contract modifications— (i) Increasing the amount of a contract awarded before January 1, 1989, by $50,000 or more; and (ii) Entered into on or afte…
  • FAR 9.104-7 Solicitation provisions and contract clauses.
    (a) The contracting officer shall insert the provision at 52.209-5, Certification Regarding Responsibility Matters, in solicitations where the contract value is expected to exceed the simplified acquisition threshold. (b) The contracting o…
  • FAR 9.507-2 Contract clause.
    (a) If, as a condition of award, the contractor's eligibility for future prime contract or subcontract awards will be restricted or the contractor must agree to some other restraint, the solicitation shall contain a proposed clause that spe…
  • FAR 11.404 Contract clauses.
    (a) Supplies or services. (1) The contracting officer may use a time of delivery clause to set forth a required delivery schedule and to allow an offeror to propose an alternative delivery schedule. The clauses and their alternates may be u…
  • FAR 11.503 Contract clauses.
    …Damages—Supplies, Services, or Research and Development, in fixed-price solicitations and contracts for supplies, services, or research and development when the contracting officer determines that liquidated damages are appropriate (see 11.…
  • FAR 11.702 Construction contracts.
    Construction contracts may authorize a variation in estimated quantities of unit-priced items. When the variation between the estimated quantity and the actual quantity of a unit-priced item is more than plus or minus 15 percent, an equitab…
  • FAR 12.301 Solicitation provisions and contract clauses for the acquisition of commercial products and commercial services.
    (a) In accordance with 41 U.S.C. 3307, contracts for the acquisition of commercial products or commercial services shall, to the maximum extent practicable, include only those clauses— (1) Required to implement provisions of law or executi…
  • FAR 14.201-9 Simplified contract format.
    … or fixed-price with economic price adjustment acquisitions of supplies and services, the contracting officer may use the simplified contract format in lieu of the uniform contract format (see 14.201-1). The contracting officer has flexibil…
  • FAR 15.404-3 Subcontract pricing considerations.
    (a) The contracting officer is responsible for the determination of a fair and reasonable price for the prime contract, including subcontracting costs. The contracting officer should consider whether a contractor or subcontractor has an app…
  • FAR 15.408 Solicitation provisions and contract clauses.
    (a) Changes or Additions to Make-or-Buy Program. The contracting officer shall insert the clause at 52.215-9, Changes or Additions to Make-or-Buy Program, in solicitations and contracts when it is contemplated that a make-or- buy program wi…
  • FAR 17.204 Contracts.
    (a) The contract shall specify limits on the purchase of additional supplies or services, or the overall duration of the term of the contract, including any extension. (b) The contract shall state the period within which the option may be …
  • FAR 19.103 Appealing the contracting officer's North American Industry Classification System code and size standard determination.
    (a) The contracting officer's determination is final unless appealed as follows: (1) An appeal of a contracting officer's NAICS code designation and the applicable size standard shall be served and filed within 10 calendar days after the i…
  • FAR 19.301-2 Rerepresentation by a contractor that represented its status as a small business concern.
    (a) Definition. As used in this subsection— Long-term contract means a contract of more than five years in duration, including options. However, the term does not include contracts that exceed five years in duration because the period of p…
  • FAR 19.704 Subcontracting plan requirements.
    (a) Each subcontracting plan required under 19.301-2(e) and 19.702(a)(1)(i), (ii), and (iii) shall include— (1) Separate percentage goals for using small business (including ANCs and Indian tribes), veteran-owned small business, service-di…
  • FAR 19.705-2 Determining the need for a subcontracting plan.
    The contracting officer shall take the following actions to determine whether a proposed contractual action requires a subcontracting plan: (a)(1) Determine whether the proposed total contract-dollars will exceed the subcontracting plan th…
  • FAR 19.705-4 Reviewing the subcontracting plan.
    The contracting officer shall review the subcontracting plan for adequacy, ensuring that the required information, goals, and assurances are included (see 19.704). (a) No detailed standards apply to every subcontracting plan. Instead, the …
  • FAR 19.705-6 Postaward responsibilities of the contracting officer.
    After a contract or contract modification containing a subcontracting plan is awarded or an existing subcontracting plan is amended, the contracting officer shall do the following: (a) Notify the SBA of the award by sending a copy of the a…
  • FAR 19.705-7 Compliance with the subcontracting plan.
    …all business, small disadvantaged business, and women-owned small business concerns as subcontractors in Government contracts is a matter of national interest with both social and economic benefits. When a contractor fails to make a good fa…
  • FAR 19.708 Contract clauses.
    …sert the clause at 52.219-8, Utilization of Small Business Concerns, in solicitations and contracts when the contract amount is expected to exceed the simplified acquisition threshold unless— (1) A personal services contract is contemplate…
  • FAR 22.302 Liquidated damages and overtime pay.
    (a) When an overtime computation discloses underpayments, the responsible contractor or subcontractor must pay the affected employee any unpaid wages and pay liquidated damages to the Government. The contracting officer must assess liquidat…
  • FAR 22.404-9 Award of contract without required wage determination.
    (a) If a contract is awarded without the required wage determination (i.e., incorporating no determination, containing a clearly inapplicable general wage determination, or containing a project determination which is inapplicable because of…
  • FAR 22.406-9 Withholding from or suspension of contract payments.
    (a) Withholding from contract payments. If the contracting officer believes a violation exists (see 22.406-8), or upon request of the Department of Labor, the contracting officer must withhold from payments due the contractor an amount equa…
  • FAR 22.1008-2 Successorship with incumbent contractor collective bargaining agreement.
    (a) Early in the acquisition cycle, the contracting officer shall determine whether 41 U.S.C. 6707(c) affects the new acquisition. The contracting officer shall determine whether there is a predecessor contract covered by the Service Contra…
  • FAR 27.303 Contract clauses.
    (a)(1) Insert a patent rights clause in all solicitations and contracts for experimental, developmental, or research work as prescribed in this section. (2) This section also applies to solicitations or contracts for construction work or a…
  • FAR 31.205-32 Precontract costs.
    Precontract costs means costs incurred before the effective date of the contract directly pursuant to the negotiation and in anticipation of the contract award when such incurrence is necessary to comply with the proposed contract delivery …
  • FAR 32.007 Contract financing payments.
    …ocedures or otherwise specified in paragraph (b) of this section, the due date for making contract financing payments by the designated payment office is the 30th day after the designated billing office receives a proper contract financing …
  • FAR 32.102 Description of contract financing methods.
    (a) Advance payments are advances of money by the Government to a prime contractor before, in anticipation of, and for the purpose of complete performance under one or more contracts. They are expected to be liquidated from payments due to …
  • FAR 32.111 Contract clauses for noncommercial purchases.
    (a) The contracting officer shall insert the following clauses, appropriately modified with respect to payment due dates, in accordance with agency regulations— (1) The clause at 52.232-1, Payments, in solicitations and contracts when a fi…
  • FAR 32.205 Procedures for offeror-proposed commercial contract financing.
    (a) Under this procedure, each offeror may propose financing terms. The contracting officer must then determine which offer is in the best interests of the United States. (b) Solicitations. The contracting officer must include in the solic…
  • FAR 32.206 Solicitation provisions and contract clauses.
    (a) The contract shall contain the paragraph entitled “Payment” of the clause at 52.212-4, Contract Terms and Conditions—Commercial Products and Commercial Services. If the contract will provide for contract financing, the contracting offic…
  • FAR 32.503-12 Maximum unliquidated amount.
    (a) The contracting officer shall ensure that any excess of the unliquidated progress payments over the contractual limitation in paragraph (a) of the Progress Payments clause in the contract is promptly corrected through one or more of the…
  • FAR 32.904 Determining payment due dates.
    (a) General. Agency procedures must ensure that, when specifying due dates, contracting officers give full consideration to the time reasonably required by Government officials to fulfill their administrative responsibilities under the cont…
  • FAR 32.908 Contract clauses.
    (a) Insert the clause at 52.232-26, Prompt Payment for Fixed-Price Architect-Engineer Contracts, in solicitations and contracts that contain the clause at 52.232-10, Payments Under Fixed-Price Architect-Engineer Contracts. (1) As authorize…

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