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48 CFR · Federal Acquisition Regulation and Defense supplement

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40 sections with “Domestic concern”

  • DFARS 227.673 Foreign license and technical assistance agreements between the Government and domestic concerns.
    (a) Contracts between the Government and a primary source to provide technical assistance or patent rights to a second source for the manufacture of supplies or performance of services shall, to the extent practicable, specify the rights in…
  • DFARS 227.675 Foreign license and technical assistance agreements between a domestic concern and a foreign government or concern.
  • FAR 25.604 Preaward determination concerning the inapplicability of section 1605 of the Recovery Act or the Buy American statute.
    …ith other readily available information. (c) Determination based on unreasonable cost of domestic construction material. (1) Manufactured construction material. The contracting officer must compare the offered price of the contract using …
  • DFARS 225.003 Definitions.
    …uipment means any equipment, item of supply, component, or end product purchased by DoD. Domestic concern means— (1) A concern incorporated in the United States (including a subsidiary that is incorporated in the United States, even if th…
  • DFARS 252.225-7031 Secondary Arab boycott of Israel.
    …utside the United States who is employed by other than a United States person); (ii) Any domestic concern (including any permanent domestic establishment of any foreign concern); and (iii) Any foreign subsidiary or affiliate (including an…
  • FAR 25.101 General.
    (a) The Buy American statute restricts the purchase of supplies that are not domestic end products. For manufactured end products, the Buy American statute, E.O. 13881, and E.O. 14005 use a two-part test to define a domestic end product. (…
  • FAR 25.106 Determining reasonableness of cost.
    … that are not critical items and do not contain critical components. (1)(i) If there is a domestic offer that is not the low offer, and the restrictions of the Buy American statute apply to the low offer, the contracting officer must determ…
  • FAR 25.502 Application.
    …same consideration given eligible offers to offers of U.S.-made end products that are not domestic end products, award on the low offer. Otherwise, evaluate in accordance with agency procedures; and (3) If there were no offers of U.S.-made…
  • FAR 25.504-1 Buy American statute.
    …e of the trade agreements apply. Perform the steps in 25.502(a). Offer C is of 50 percent domestic content, therefore Offer C is evaluated as a foreign end product, because it is the product of a small business but is not a domestic end pro…
  • FAR 25.504-4 Group award basis.
    … evaluated cost for each line item (the tentative award pattern): Item 1: Low offer A is domestic; select A. Item 2: Low offer B is eligible; do not apply factor; select B. Item 3: Low offer A is noneligible and Offer B is a domestic off…
  • FAR 52.212-3 Offeror Representations and Certifications—Commercial Products and Commercial Services.
    …mily members, shared facilities and equipment, and the common use of employees. Inverted domestic corporation means a foreign incorporated entity that meets the definition of an inverted domestic corporation under 6 U.S.C. 395(b), applied …
  • FAR 52.222-62 Paid Sick Leave Under Executive Order 13706.
    … 2022) (a) Definitions. As used in this clause (in accordance with 29 CFR 13.2)— Child, domestic partner, and domestic violence have the meaning given in 29 CFR 13.2. Employee—(1)(i) Means any person engaged in performing work on or in c…
  • DFARS 225.7003-3 Exceptions.
    …nd Critical Materials Board of Directors pursuant to 50 U.S.C. 98h-1, determines that the domestic availability of a particular electronic component is critical to national security. (2)(i) Commercially available off-the-shelf (COTS) items…
  • DFARS 225.7501 Policy.
    Acquire only domestic end products for use outside the United States, and use only domestic construction material for construction to be performed outside the United States, including end products and construction material for foreign milit…
  • FAR 27.302 Policy.
    … likely to manufacture substantially in the United States or that under the circumstances domestic manufacture is not commercially feasible. (h) Special conditions for nonprofit organizations' preference for small business concerns. (1) No…
  • DFARS 252.227-7038 Patent Rights—Ownership by the Contractor (Large Business).
    … specified in paragraph (c) of this clause. The Contractor's license- (A) Extends to any domestic subsidiaries and affiliates within the corporate structure of which the Contractor is a part; (B) Includes the right to grant sublicenses to…
  • FAR 2.101 Definitions.
    …is composed, in whole or in significant part, of biological products, including renewable domestic agricultural materials and forestry materials, or that is an intermediate ingredient or feedstock. The term includes, with respect to forestr…
  • FAR 13.302-5 Clauses.
    …3-4(b). (4) When the senior procurement executive allows for application of an alternate domestic content test for the contract in accordance with 25.101(d), so that the initial domestic content threshold will apply to the entire period of…
  • DFARS 205.301 General.
    (a)(S-70) Synopsis of exceptions to domestic source requirements. (i) In accordance with 10 U.S.C. 4862(k), contracting officers also must synopsize through the Governmentwide point of entry (https://www.sam.gov), awards exceeding the simp…
  • DFARS 225.1103 Other provisions and clauses.
    (1) Unless the contracting officer knows that the prospective contractor is not a domestic concern, use the clause at 252.225-7005, Identification of Expenditures in the United States, in solicitations and contracts that— (i) Exceed the si…
  • DFARS 225.7002-2 Exceptions.
    …(1) The following officials are authorized, without power of redelegation, to make such a domestic nonavailability determination: (i) The Under Secretary of Defense (Acquisition and Sustainment). (ii) The Secretary of the Army. (iii) The…
  • DFARS 227.671 General.
    …, often called a foreign licensing agreement or technical assistance agreement, wherein a domestic concern, referred to in this subpart as a “primary source,” agrees to furnish to a foreign concern or government, herein referred to as a “se…
  • FAR 47.101 Policies.
    (a) For domestic shipments, the contracting officer shall authorize shipments on commercial bills of lading (CBL's). Government bills of lading (GBL's) may be used for international or noncontiguous domestic trade shipments or when otherwis…
  • FAR 52.213-4 Terms and Conditions—Simplified Acquisitions (Other Than Commercial Products and Commercial Services).
    …0,000). (B) Alternate I (OCT 2022) (Applies if the Contracting Officer has filled in the domestic content threshold below, which will apply to the entire contract period of performance. Substitute the following sentence for the first sente…
  • FAR 52.227-11 Patent Rights—Ownership by the Contractor.
    … times specified in paragraph (c) of this clause. The Contractor's license extends to any domestic subsidiaries and affiliates within the corporate structure of which the Contractor is a part, and includes the right to grant sublicenses to …
  • DFARS 212.301 Solicitation provisions and contract clauses for the acquisition of commercial products and commercial services.
    …o comply with 10 U.S.C. 4863. (H) Use the clause at 252.225-7012, Preference for Certain Domestic Commodities, as prescribed in 225.7002-3(a), to comply with 10 U.S.C. 4862. (I) Use the clause at 252.225-7015, Restriction on Acquisition o…
  • FAR 22.1703 Policy.
    … for contract reporting requirements concerning training to prevent human trafficking for domestic carrier air transportation; 47.405(b) is not applicable to contracts awarded by the Department of Defense or contracts for commercial product…
  • FAR 25.100 Scope of subpart.
    …3881, July 15, 2019; (4) Executive Order 14005, January 25, 2021; and (5) Waiver of the domestic content test of the Buy American statute for acquisition of commercially available off-the-shelf (COTS) items in accordance with 41 U.S.C. 19…
  • FAR 31.205-6 Compensation for personal services.
    …ts are allowable. (2) Differential allowances for additional income taxes resulting from domestic assignments are unallowable. (However, payments for increased employee income or Federal Insurance Contributions Act taxes incident to allowa…
  • FAR 49.603-1 Fixed-price contracts—complete termination.
    …ding, without limitation, any applicable clauses relating to: labor law, contingent fees, domestic articles, and employment of aliens.” [If the contract contains clauses of this character inserted for reasons other than requirements of Acts…
  • FAR 49.603-2 Fixed-price contracts—partial termination.
    …ding, without limitation, any applicable clauses relating to: labor law, contingent fees, domestic articles, and employment of aliens. [If the contract contains clauses of this character inserted for reasons other than requirements of Acts …
  • FAR 49.603-3 Cost-reimbursement contracts—complete termination, if settlement includes cost.
    …ding, without limitation, any applicable clauses relating to: labor law, contingent fees, domestic articles, and employment of aliens.” [If the contract contains clauses of this character inserted for reasons other than requirements of Acts…
  • FAR 49.603-4 Cost-reimbursement contracts—complete termination, with settlement limited to fee.
    …ding, without limitation, any applicable clauses relating to: labor law, contingent fees, domestic articles, and employment of aliens. [If the contract contains clauses of this character inserted for reasons other than requirements of Acts …
  • FAR 52.204-8 Annual Representations and Certifications.
    …n applies to all solicitations. (vii) 52.209-2, Prohibition on Contracting with Inverted Domestic Corporations—Representation. (viii) 52.209-5, Certification Regarding Responsibility Matters. This provision applies to solicitations where …
  • FAR 52.212-5 Contract Terms and Conditions Required To Implement Statutes or Executive Orders—Commercial Products and Commercial Services.
    …89(a)(1)(A) of Pub. L. 115-232). (4) 52.209-10, Prohibition on Contracting with Inverted Domestic Corporations (NOV 2015). (5) 52.232-40, Providing Accelerated Payments to Small Business Subcontractors (MAR 2023) (31 U.S.C. 3903 and 10 U.…
  • FAR 52.247-51 Evaluation of Export Offers.
    …OD water terminals. Port handling and ocean charges in tariffs on file with the Bureau of Domestic Regulation, Federal Maritime Commission, or other appropriate regulatory authorities as of the date of bid opening (or the closing date speci…
  • FAR 52.250-4 SAFETY Act Pre-qualification Designation Notice.
    …nancial harm, to a person, property, or entity, in the United States, or in the case of a domestic United States air carrier or a United States-flag vessel (or a vessel based principally in the United States on which United States income ta…
  • DFARS 225.872-1 General.
    …ction does not limit the authority of the Secretary concerned to restrict acquisitions to domestic sources or reject an otherwise acceptable offer from a qualifying country source when considered necessary for national defense reasons.
  • DFARS 225.7018-3 Exceptions.
    …and Critical Materials Board of Directors pursuant to 50 U.S.C. 98h-1 determines that the domestic availability of a particular electronic device is critical to national security (but see PGI 225.7018-3(c)(2) with regard to samarium-cobalt …
  • DFARS 252.209-7002 Disclosure of Ownership or Control by a Foreign Government.
    …ated organizations). (2) Entity controlled by a foreign government— (i) Means— (A) Any domestic or foreign organization or corporation that is effectively owned or controlled by a foreign government; or (B) Any individual acting on beha…

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