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48 CFR · Federal Acquisition Regulation and Defense supplement

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601 sections with “Offeror”: the first 40

  • 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 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 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 52.212-1 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…
  • 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…
  • 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 252.237-7012 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…
  • 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 32.205 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 32.1109 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…
  • DFARS 215.506 Postaward debriefing of offerors.
    (b) Notwithstanding FAR 15.506(b), when requested by a successful or unsuccessful offeror, a written or oral debriefing is required for contract awards valued at $15 million or more (section 818 of the National Defense Authorization Act for…
  • 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…
  • DFARS 215.503 Notifications to unsuccessful offerors.
    …rnment exercises the authority provided in 239.7305(d), the notifications to unsuccessful offerors, either preaward or postaward, shall not reveal any information that is determined to be withheld from disclosure in accordance with 10 U.S.C…
  • DFARS 215.306 Exchanges with offerors after receipt of proposals.
    (c) Competitive range. (1) For acquisitions with an estimated value of $100 million or more, contracting officers should conduct discussions. Follow the procedures at FAR 15.306(c) and (d).
  • FAR 2.101 Definitions.
    …nse to the requirement. Bid sample means a product sample required to be submitted by an offeror to show characteristics of the offered products that cannot adequately be described by specifications, purchase descriptions, or the solicitat…
  • FAR 3.103-2 Evaluating the certification.
    …the authorization; and (ii) The person giving the authorization is the person within the offeror's organization who is responsible for determining the prices being offered at the time the certification is made in the particular offer. (3)…
  • FAR 3.104-3 Statutory and related prohibitions, restrictions, and requirements.
    …ion relates. (c) Actions required when an agency official contacts or is contacted by an offeror regarding non-Federal employment (41 U.S.C. 2103) (1) If an agency official, participating personally and substantially in a Federal agency pr…
  • FAR 4.2103 Procedures.
    (a) Representations. (1)(i) If the offeror selects “does not” in paragraphs (c)(1) and/or (c)(2) of the provision at 52.204-26 or in paragraphs (v)(2)(i) and/or (v)(2)(ii) of the provision at 52.212-3, the contracting officer may rely on t…
  • FAR 9.104-5 Representation and certifications regarding responsibility matters.
    (a) When an offeror provides an affirmative response in paragraph (a)(1) of the provision at 52.209-5, Certification Regarding Responsibility Matters, or paragraph (h) of provision 52.212-3, the contracting officer shall— (1) Promptly, upo…
  • FAR 9.104-6 Federal Awardee Performance and Integrity Information System.
    …FAPIIS also identifies— (i) An affiliate that is an immediate owner or subsidiary of the offeror, if any (see 52.204-17, Ownership or Control of Offeror); and (ii) All predecessors of the offeror that held a Federal contract or grant with…
  • FAR 9.202 Policy.
    …ating the likely costs for testing and evaluation which will be incurred by the potential offeror to become qualified; and (iii) Specifying all requirements that a potential offeror (or its product) must satisfy in order to become qualifie…
  • FAR 14.503-1 Step one.
    …ond step must be based on the bidder's own technical proposals. (8) A statement that (i) offerors should submit proposals that are acceptable without additional explanation or information, (ii) the Government may make a final determination…
  • FAR 15.102 Oral presentations.
    (a) Oral presentations by offerors as requested by the Government may substitute for, or augment, written information. Use of oral presentations as a substitute for portions of a proposal can be effective in streamlining the source selectio…
  • FAR 15.201 Exchanges with industry before receipt of proposals.
    …with procurement integrity requirements (see 3.104). Interested parties include potential offerors, end users, Government acquisition and supporting personnel, and others involved in the conduct or outcome of the acquisition. (b) The purpo…
  • FAR 15.203 Requests for proposals.
    …ated terms and conditions that will apply to the contract. The solicitation may authorize offerors to propose alternative terms and conditions. If the solicitation permits offerors to submit one or more additional proposals with alternative…
  • FAR 15.204-5 Part IV—Representations and Instructions.
    …ions as follows: (a) Section K, Representations, certifications, and other statements of offerors. Include in this section those solicitation provisions that require representations, certifications, or the submission of other information b…
  • FAR 15.208 Submission, modification, revision, and withdrawal of proposals.
    (a) Offerors are responsible for submitting proposals, and any revisions, and modifications, so as to reach the Government office designated in the solicitation by the time specified in the solicitation. Offerors may use any transmission me…
  • FAR 15.305 Proposal evaluation.
    (a) Proposal evaluation is an assessment of the proposal and the offeror's ability to perform the prospective contract successfully. An agency shall evaluate competitive proposals and then assess their relative qualities solely on the facto…
  • FAR 15.402 Pricing policy.
    … of preference in determining the type of data required: (i) No additional data from the offeror, if the price is based on adequate price competition, except as provided by 15.403-3(b). (ii) Data other than certified cost or pricing data …
  • FAR 15.403-1 Prohibition on obtaining certified cost or pricing data (10 U.S.C. chapter 271 and 41 U.S.C. chapter 35).
    …on. (i) A price is based on adequate price competition when— (A) Two or more responsible offerors, competing independently, submit priced offers that satisfy the Government's expressed requirement; (B) Award will be made to the offeror wh…
  • FAR 15.403-3 Requiring data other than certified cost or pricing data.
    …bmission of data other than certified cost or pricing data, as defined in 2.101, from the offeror to the extent necessary to determine a fair and reasonable price (10 U.S.C. 3705(a) and 41 U.S.C. 3505(a)) if the contracting officer determin…

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