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84 sections with “Final decision”: the first 40

  • FAR 32.605 Final decisions.
    (a) The contracting officer shall issue a final decision as required by 33.211 if— (1) The contracting officer and the contractor are unable to reach agreement on the existence or amount of a debt in a timely manner; (2) The contractor fa…
  • FAR 42.705 Final indirect cost rates.
    (a) Final indirect cost rates shall be established on the basis of— (1) Contracting officer determination procedure (see 42.705-1) or (2) Auditor determination procedure (see 42.705-2). (b) Within 120 days (or longer period, if approved …
  • FAR 3.705 Procedures.
    (a) Reporting. The facts concerning any final conviction for any violation of 18 U.S.C. 201-224 involving or relating to agency contracts shall be reported promptly to the agency head or designee for that official's consideration. The agenc…
  • FAR 19.705-7 Compliance with the subcontracting plan.
    …onstrate what good faith efforts have been made before the contracting officer issues the final decision and shall further state that failure of the contractor to respond may be taken as an admission that no valid explanation exists. (e) P…
  • FAR 32.904 Determining payment due dates.
    …h day after Government acceptance of supplies delivered or services performed. (A) For a final invoice, when the payment amount is subject to contract settlement actions, acceptance is deemed to occur on the effective date of the contract …
  • FAR 33.211 Contracting officer's decision.
    …ision, with supporting rationale; (v) Paragraphs substantially as follows: “This is the final decision of the Contracting Officer. You may appeal this decision to the agency board of contract appeals. If you decide to appeal, you must, wi…
  • FAR 52.212-4 Contract Terms and Conditions—Commercial Products and Commercial Services.
    …rence. The Contractor shall proceed diligently with performance of this contract, pending final resolution of any dispute arising under the contract. (e) Definitions. The clause at FAR 52.202-1, Definitions, is incorporated herein by refer…
  • FAR 52.216-7 Allowable Cost and Payment.
    …interest penalty provisions of the Prompt Payment Act. Interim payments made prior to the final payment under the contract are contract financing payments, except interim payments if this contract contains Alternate I to the clause at 52.23…
  • FAR 52.230-6 Administration of Cost Accounting Standards.
    …part 16.4); (3) Orders issued under indefinite-delivery contracts and subcontracts where final payment is not based on actual costs incurred (FAR Subpart 16.5); and (4) The fixed-hourly rate portion of time-and-materials and labor-hours c…
  • FAR 52.242-3 Penalties for Unallowable Costs.
    … Costs (DEC 2022) (a) Definition. Proposal, as used in this clause, means either— (1) A final indirect cost rate proposal submitted by the Contractor after the expiration of its fiscal year which— (i) Relates to any payment made on the b…
  • DFARS 227.7103-13 Government right to review, verify, challenge, and validate asserted restrictions.
    …actor's failure to respond to the challenge notice cannot be the sole basis for issuing a final decision denying the validity of an asserted restriction. (d) Challenge and validation. All challenges shall be made in accordance with the pro…
  • DFARS 227.7203-13 Government right to review, verify, challenge, and validate asserted restrictions.
    …er a contract. The Government's right to challenge an assertion expires three years after final payment under the contract or three years after delivery of the software, whichever is later. Those limitations on the Government's challenge ri…
  • DFARS 252.227-7019 Validation of Asserted Restrictions—Computer Software.
    … the software is delivered or otherwise furnished to the Government, or 6 years following final payment under this contract, whichever is later. (2) The absence of a challenge to an asserted restriction shall not constitute validation unde…
  • DFARS 252.227-7037 Validation of Asserted Restrictions on Technical Data.
    …e current validity of the asserted restriction; (iii) State that a Contracting Officer's final decision, issued pursuant to paragraph (g) of this clause, sustaining the validity of a prior asserted restriction identical to the current asse…
  • FAR 8.406-6 Disputes.
    …lause of the schedule contract, the ordering activity contracting officer may— (i) Issue final decisions on disputes arising from performance of the order (but see paragraph (b) of this section); or (ii) Refer the dispute to the schedule …
  • FAR 19.306 Protesting a firm's status as a HUBZone small business concern.
    …ested concern of the SBA determination. The determination is effective immediately and is final unless overturned on appeal by SBA's Associate Administrator, Office of Government Contracting and Business Development(AA/GC&BD). (1) If the c…
  • FAR 19.602-3 Resolving differences between the agency and the Small Business Administration.
    …ng officer and the SBA shall make every effort to reach a resolution before the SBA takes final action on a COC. This shall be done through the complete exchange of information and in accordance with agency procedures. If agreement cannot b…
  • FAR 30.606 Resolving cost impacts.
    …; and (B) Adjust interim payment requests (public vouchers and/or progress payments) and final vouchers to reflect the difference between the costs paid using the noncompliant practice and the costs that should have been paid using the com…
  • FAR 2.101 Definitions.
    …e Federal agency that, on behalf of all Federal agencies, is responsible for establishing final indirect cost rates and forward pricing rates, if applicable, and administering cost accounting standards for all contracts in a business unit. …
  • FAR 27.404-5 Unauthorized, omitted, or incorrect markings.
    …ot authorized, the contractor will be furnished a written determination which becomes the final agency decision regarding the appropriateness of the markings and the markings will be cancelled or ignored and the data will no longer be made …
  • FAR 33.102 General.
    …ount of the debt, and the intention to collect by offset if necessary. Prior to issuing a final decision, the contracting officer shall afford the contractor an opportunity to inspect and copy agency records pertaining to the debt to the ex…
  • FAR 33.214 Alternative dispute resolution (ADR).
    …claim. When ADR procedures are used subsequent to the issuance of a contracting officer's final decision, their use does not alter any of the time limitations or procedural requirements for filing an appeal of the contracting officer's fina…
  • FAR 36.602-4 Selection authority.
    (a) The final selection decision shall be made by the agency head or a designated selection authority. (b) The selection authority shall review the recommendations of the evaluation board and shall, with the advice of appropriate technical…
  • FAR 42.709-4 Assessing the penalty.
    …peal and was not withdrawn by the cognizant Government agency; (2) A contracting officer final decision which was not appealed; (3) A prior executive agency Board of Contract Appeals or court decision involving the contractor, which uphel…
  • FAR 42.1503 Procedures.
    …individuals responsible for preparing and reviewing interim evaluations, if prepared, and final evaluations (e.g., contracting officers, contracting officer representatives, project managers, and program managers). Those individuals identif…
  • FAR 52.216-5 Price Redetermination—Prospective.
    …of the last preceding period, except that the parties may agree to vary the length of the final period. The first day of the second and each succeeding period shall be the effective date of price redetermination for that period. (d) Data s…
  • FAR 52.216-6 Price Redetermination—Retroactive.
    …ars that the then-current billing prices will be substantially greater than the estimated final prices, or if the Contractor submits data showing that the redetermined prices will be substantially greater than the current billing prices, th…
  • FAR 52.216-16 Incentive Price Revision—Firm Target.
    …price revision in accordance with this clause; provided, that in no event shall the total final price of these items exceed the ceiling price of ___ dollars ($___). Any supplies or services that are to be (1) ordered separately under, or ot…
  • FAR 52.216-17 Incentive Price Revision—Successive Targets.
    …price revision in accordance with this clause; provided, that in no event shall the total final price of these items exceed the ceiling price of ___ dollars ($___). The prices of these items shown in the Schedule are the initial target pric…
  • FAR 52.219-16 Liquidated Damages—Subcontracting Plan.
    …ctor failed to achieve each subcontract goal. (c) Before the Contracting Officer makes a final decision that the Contractor has failed to make such good faith effort, the Contracting Officer shall give the Contractor written notice specify…
  • FAR 52.222-41 Service Contract Labor Standards.
    …or. The Wage and Hour Division will approve, modify, or disapprove the action or render a final determination in the event of disagreement within 30 days of receipt or will notify the Contracting Officer within 30 days of receipt that addit…
  • FAR 52.227-14 Rights in Data—General.
    … will furnish the Contractor a written determination, which determination will become the final agency decision regarding the appropriateness of the markings unless the Contractor files suit in a court of competent jurisdiction within 90 da…
  • FAR 52.232-17 Interest.
    … demand for payment to the Contractor upon finding a debt is due under the contract. (c) Final Decisions. The Contracting Officer will issue a final decision as required by 33.211 if— (1) The Contracting Officer and the Contractor are una…
  • FAR 52.233-3 Protest After Award.
    … to the work covered by the order during the period of work stoppage. Upon receipt of the final decision in the protest, the Contracting Officer shall either— (1) Cancel the stop-work order; or (2) Terminate the work covered by the order …
  • DFARS 219.702-70 Statutory requirements for the Test Program for Negotiation of Comprehensive Small Business Subcontracting Plans.
    … comply with the comprehensive subcontracting plan, the contracting officer shall issue a final decision. The contracting officer's final decision shall include the right of the contractor to appeal under the Disputes clause. The contractin…
  • DFARS 242.7000 Contractor business system deficiencies.
    …. L. 112-81). (b) Determination to withhold payments. If the contracting officer makes a final determination to disapprove a contractor's business system in accordance with the clause at 252.242-7005, Contractor Business Systems, the contr…
  • DFARS 252.227-7038 Patent Rights—Ownership by the Contractor (Large Business).
    …l subject inventions have been disclosed or that there are no subject inventions. (ii) A final report, within 3 months after completion of the contracted work, listing all subject inventions or stating that there were no subject inventions…
  • DFARS 252.242-7006 Accounting System Administration.
    …nsistent method for the accumulation and allocation of indirect costs to intermediate and final cost objectives; (5) Accumulation of costs under general ledger control; (6) Reconciliation of subsidiary cost ledgers and cost objectives to …
  • DFARS 252.244-7001 Contractor Purchasing System Administration.
    …Contractor's response and notify the Contractor, in writing, of the Contracting Officer's final determination concerning— (i) Remaining material weaknesses; (ii) The adequacy of any proposed or completed corrective action; and (iii) Syst…
  • FAR 4.604 Responsibilities.
    …after award of a contract, the contracting officer receives written notification of SBA's final decision on a protest concerning a size determination, the contracting officer shall update FPDS to reflect the final decision. (c) The chief a…

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