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48 CFR · Federal Acquisition Regulation and Defense supplement

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  • FAR 9.109-4 Certification by the offeror.
    (a) In order to be eligible for contract award, an offeror is required to— (1)(i) Certify that it does not engage and has not engaged in any activity that contributed to or was a significant factor in the President's or Secretary of State'…
  • FAR 12.205 Offers.
    (a) Where technical information is necessary for evaluation of offers, agencies should, as part of market research, review existing literature generally available in the industry to determine its adequacy for purposes of evaluation. If adeq…
  • FAR 12.602 Streamlined evaluation of offers.
    …officers are not required to describe the relative importance of evaluation factors. (b) Offers shall be evaluated in accordance with the criteria contained in the solicitation. For many commercial products or commercial services, the crit…
  • FAR 13.106-2 Evaluation of quotations or offers.
    (a) General. (1) The contracting officer shall evaluate quotations or offers— (i) In an impartial manner; and (ii) Inclusive of transportation charges from the shipping point of the supplier to the delivery destination. (2) Quotations or…
  • FAR 15.306 Exchanges with offerors after receipt of proposals.
    …without discussions. (1) Clarifications are limited exchanges, between the Government and offerors, that may occur when award without discussions is contemplated. (2) If award will be made without conducting discussions, offerors may be gi…
  • FAR 15.503 Notifications to unsuccessful offerors.
    …reaward notices of exclusion from competitive range. The contracting officer shall notify offerors promptly in writing when their proposals are excluded from the competitive range or otherwise eliminated from the competition. The notice sha…
  • FAR 15.504 Award to successful offeror.
    The contracting officer shall award a contract to the successful offeror by furnishing the executed contract or other notice of the award to that offeror. (a) If the award document includes information that is different than the latest sig…
  • FAR 15.505 Preaward debriefing of offerors.
    Offerors excluded from the competitive range or otherwise excluded from the competition before award may request a debriefing before award (10 U.S.C. 3305 and 41 U.S.C. 3705). (a)(1) The offeror may request a preaward debriefing by submitt…
  • FAR 15.506 Postaward debriefing of offerors.
    (a)(1) An offeror, upon its written request received by the agency within 3 days after the date on which that offeror has received notification of contract award in accordance with 15.503(b), shall be debriefed and furnished the basis for t…
  • FAR 19.301-1 Representation by the offeror.
    …a)(1) To be eligible for award as a small business concern identified in 19.000(a)(3), an offeror is required to represent in good faith— (i)(A) That it meets the small business size standard corresponding to the North American Industry Cl…
  • FAR 19.804-2 Agency offering.
    …ontracts that are reserved in accordance with 19.503. The notification, referred to as an offering letter, shall identify the time frames within which resulting 8(a) awards must be completed in order for the agency to meet its responsibilit…
  • FAR 25.204 Evaluating offers of foreign construction material.
    (a) Offerors proposing to use foreign construction material other than that listed by the Government in the applicable clause at 52.225-9, paragraph (b)(2), or 52.225-11, paragraph (b)(3), or covered by the WTO GPA or a Free Trade Agreement…
  • FAR 25.503 Group offers.
    (a) If the solicitation or an offer specifies that award can be made only on a group of line items or on all line items contained in the solicitation or offer, reject the offer— (1) If any part of the award would consist of prohibited end …
  • FAR 25.605 Evaluating offers of foreign construction material.
    …e with section 25.604, then the contracting officer shall apply evaluation factors to the offer incorporating the use of such foreign construction material as follows: (1) Use an evaluation factor of 25 percent, applied to the total offere…
  • FAR 50.205-3 Authorization of offers contingent upon SAFETY Act designation or certification before contract award.
    (a) Contracting officers may authorize such contingent offers, only if— (1) DHS has issued— (i) For offers contingent upon SAFETY Act designation, a pre-qualification designation notice or a block designation; or (ii) For offers continge…
  • FAR 52.204-17 Ownership or Control of Offeror.
    As prescribed in 4.1804(b), use the following provision: Ownership or Control of Offeror (AUG 2020) (a) Definitions. As used in this provision— Commercial and Government Entity (CAGE) code means— (1) An identifier assigned to entities l…
  • FAR 52.207-6 Solicitation of Offers from Small Business Concerns and Small Business Teaming Arrangements or Joint Ventures (Multiple-Award Contracts).
    As prescribed in 7.107-6, insert the following provision: Solicitation of Offers From Small Business Concerns and Small Business Teaming Arrangements or Joint Ventures (Multiple-Award Contracts) (AUG 2024) (a) Definition. “Small Business …
  • FAR 52.212-1 Instructions to Offerors—Commercial Products and Commercial Services.
    As prescribed in 12.301(b)(1), insert the following provision: Instructions to Offerors—Commercial Products and Commercial Services (SEP 2023) (a) North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code and small business size standard…
  • FAR 52.212-3 Offeror Representations and Certifications—Commercial Products and Commercial Services.
    As prescribed in 12.301(b)(2), insert the following provision: Offeror Representations and Certifications—Commercial Products and Commercial Services (OCT 2025) The Offeror shall complete only paragraph (b) of this provision if the Offero…
  • FAR 52.215-1 Instructions to Offerors—Competitive Acquisition.
    As prescribed in 15.209(a), insert the following provision: Instructions to Offerors—Competitive Acquisition (NOV 2021) (a) Definitions. As used in this provision— Discussions are negotiations that occur after establishment of the compet…
  • FAR 52.225-17 Evaluation of Foreign Currency Offers.
    …prescribed in 25.1103(c), insert the following provision: Evaluation of Foreign Currency Offers (FEB 2000) If the Government receives offers in more than one currency, the Government will evaluate offers by converting the foreign currency…
  • FAR 52.232-38 Submission of Electronic Funds Transfer Information with Offer.
    …insert the following provision: Submission of Electronic Funds Transfer Information With Offer (JUL 2013) The offeror shall provide, with its offer, the following information that is required to make payment by electronic funds transfer (…
  • FAR 52.247-46 Shipping Point(s) Used in Evaluation of F.o.b. Origin Offers.
    …s shipping points is contemplated: Shipping Point(s) Used in Evaluation of f.o.b. Origin Offers (APR 1984) (a) If more than one shipping point or plant is designated by the offeror and the offeror fails to indicate the quantity per shippi…
  • FAR 52.247-51 Evaluation of Export Offers.
    As prescribed in 47.305-6(e), insert the following provision: Evaluation of Export Offers (JAN 2001) (a) Port handling and ocean charges—other than DOD water terminals. Port handling and ocean charges in tariffs on file with the Bureau of…
  • DFARS 225.870-3 Submission of offers.
    …4, the Canadian Commercial Corporation is the prime contractor. To indicate acceptance of offers by individual Canadian companies, the Canadian Commercial Corporation issues a letter supporting the Canadian offer and containing the followin…
  • DFARS 225.7703-3 Evaluating offers.
    Evaluate offers submitted in response to solicitations that include the provision at 252.225-7023, Preference for Products or Services from Afghanistan, as follows: (a) If the low offer is an offer of a product or service from Afghanistan,…
  • DFARS 252.215-7008 Only One Offer.
    As prescribed at 215.408(3), use the following provision: Only One Offer (DEC 2022) (a) Cost or pricing data requirements. After initial submission of offers, if the Contracting Officer notifies the Offeror that only one offer was receive…
  • DFARS 252.215-7016 Notification to Offerors—Postaward Debriefings.
    As prescribed in 215.570, use the following provision: Notification to Offerors—Postaward Debriefings (OCT 2025) (a) Definition. As used in this provision— Nontraditional defense contractor means an entity that is not currently performin…
  • DFARS 252.225-7003 Report of Intended Performance Outside the United States and Canada—Submission with Offer.
    …ion: REPORT OF INTENDED PERFORMANCE OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA—SUBMISSION WITH OFFER (OCT 2025) (a) Definition. United States, as used in this provision, means the 50 States, the District of Columbia, and outlying areas. (b) Th…
  • DFARS 252.225-7032 Waiver of United Kingdom Levies—Evaluation of offers.
    … 225.1101(7), use the following provision: Waiver of United Kingdom Levies—Evaluation of Offers (APR 2003) (a) Offered prices for contracts or subcontracts with United Kingdom (U.K.) firms may contain commercial exploitation levies assess…
  • DFARS 252.237-7012 Instruction to offerors (count-of-articles).
    As prescribed in 237.7101(a), use the following provision: Instruction to Offerors (Count-of-Articles) (DEC 1991) (a) The Offeror shall include unit prices for each item in a lot. Unit prices shall include all costs to the Government of p…
  • DFARS 252.237-7025 Preaward Transparency Requirements for Firms Offering to Support Department of Defense Audits—Representation and Disclosure.
    …237.270(e)(3), use the following provision: Preaward Transparency Requirements For Firms Offering To Support Department of Defense Audits—Representation and Disclosure (OCT 2022) (a) Representation. The Offeror represents that within the …
  • 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 47.207-1 Qualifications of offerors.
    …or the Relocation of a Federal Office, when a Federal office is relocated, to ensure that offerors are capable to perform interstate or intrastate moving contracts involving the relocation of Federal offices. (2) If a Federal office move i…
  • DFARS 252.237-7013 Instruction to offerors (bulk weight).
    As prescribed in 237.7101(b), use the following provision: Instruction to Offerors (Bulk Weight) (DEC 1991) (a) Offers shall be submitted on a unit price per pound of serviced laundry. Unit prices shall include all costs to the Government…
  • FAR 3.909-2 Representation by the offeror.
    (a) In order to be eligible for contract award, an offeror must represent that it will not require its employees or subcontractors to sign internal confidentiality agreements or statements prohibiting or otherwise restricting such employees…
  • FAR 9.108-3 Representation by the offeror.
    (a) In order to be eligible for contract award, an offeror must represent that it is neither an inverted domestic corporation, nor a subsidiary of an inverted domestic corporation. Any offeror that cannot so represent is ineligible for awar…
  • FAR 32.1109 EFT information submitted by offerors.
    If offerors are required to submit EFT information prior to award, the successful offeror is not responsible for resubmitting this information after award of the contract except to make changes, or to place the information on invoices if re…
  • FAR 52.204-20 Predecessor of Offeror.
    As prescribed in 4.1804(d), insert the following provision: Predecessor of Offeror (AUG 2020) (a) Definitions. As used in this provision— Commercial and Government Entity (CAGE) code means— (1) An identifier assigned to entities located…
  • FAR 52.214-34 Submission of Offers in the English Language.
    As prescribed in 14.201-6(w), insert the following provision: Submission of Offers in the English Language (APR 1991) Offers submitted in response to this solicitation shall be in the English language. Offers received in other than Englis…

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.