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48 CFR · Federal Acquisition Regulation and Defense supplement

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  • FAR 32.904 Determining payment due dates.
    …nment officials to fulfill their administrative responsibilities under the contract. (b) Payment due dates. Except as prescribed in paragraphs (c) through (f) of this section, or as authorized in 32.908(a)(2) or (c)(2), the due date for ma…
  • DFARS 232.904 Determining payment due dates.
    …val can occur within the 7-day constructive acceptance period specified in the FAR Prompt Payment clauses. Government payment of construction progress payments can, in most cases, be made within the 14-day period allowed by the Prompt Payme…
  • FAR 52.216-7 Allowable Cost and Payment.
    As prescribed in 16.307(a), insert the following clause: Allowable Cost and Payment (AUG 2018) (a) Invoicing. (1) The Government will make payments to the Contractor when requested as work progresses, but (except for small business concer…
  • FAR 52.232-8 Discounts for Prompt Payment.
    As prescribed in 32.111(b)(1), insert the following clause: Discounts for Prompt Payment (FEB 2002) (a) Discounts for prompt payment will not be considered in the evaluation of offers. However, any offered discount will form a part of the…
  • FAR 52.232-27 Prompt Payment for Construction Contracts.
    As prescribed in 32.908(b), insert the following clause: Prompt Payment for Construction Contracts (JAN 2017) Notwithstanding any other payment terms in this contract, the Government will make invoice payments under the terms and conditio…
  • FAR 52.232-28 Invitation To Propose Performance-Based Payments.
    …n 32.1005(b)(1), insert the following provision: Invitation To Propose Performance-Based Payments (MAR 2000) (a) The Government invites the offeror to propose terms under which the Government will make performance-based contract financing…
  • FAR 52.232-33 Payment by Electronic Funds Transfer—System for Award Management.
    As prescribed in 32.1110(a)(1), insert the following clause: Payment by Electronic Funds Transfer—System for Award Management (OCT 2018) (a) Method of payment. (1) All payments by the Government under this contract shall be made by electr…
  • FAR 52.232-34 Payment by Electronic Funds Transfer—Other than System for Award Management.
    As prescribed in 32.1110(a)(2), insert the following clause: Payment by Electronic Funds Transfer—Other than System for Award Management (JUL 2013) (a) Method of payment. (1) All payments by the Government under this contract shall be mad…
  • DFARS 252.232-7000 Advance payment pool.
    As prescribed in 232.412-70(a), use the following clause: Advance Payment Pool (APR 2020) (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this contract, advance payments will be made for contract performance in accordance with the Determinatio…
  • 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 32.007 Contract financing payments.
    …se 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 request. (2) If an…
  • FAR 32.503-5 Administration of progress payments.
    (a) While the ACO may, in approving progress payment requests under 32.503-3 above, rely on the contractor's accounting system and certification without prepayment review, postpayment reviews (including audits when considered necessary) sha…
  • FAR 32.503-6 Suspension or reduction of payments.
    (a) General. The Progress Payments clause provides a Government right to reduce or suspend progress payments, or to increase the liquidation rate, under specified conditions. These conditions and actions are discussed in paragraphs (b) thro…
  • FAR 32.604 Demand for payment.
    …tion, the contracting officer shall take the following actions: (1) Issue the demand for payment as soon as the contracting officer has determined that an actual debt is due the Government and the amount. (2) Issue the demand for payment …
  • FAR 32.905 Payment documentation and process.
    (a) General. Payment will be based on receipt of a proper invoice and satisfactory contract performance. (b) Content of invoices. (1) A proper invoice must include the following items (except for interim payments on cost reimbursement cont…
  • FAR 32.906 Making payments.
    (a) General. The Government will not make invoice payments earlier than 7 days prior to the due dates specified in the contract unless the agency head determines— (1) To make earlier payment on a case-by-case basis; or (2) That the use of…
  • FAR 32.1108 Payment by Governmentwide commercial purchase card.
    …third party (e.g., financial institution) that issued the purchase card to make immediate payment to the contractor. The Government reimburses the third party at a later date for the third party's payment to the contractor. (a) The clause …
  • FAR 49.112-1 Partial payments.
    (a) General. If the contract authorizes partial payments on settlement proposals before settlement, a prime contractor may request them on the form prescribed in 49.602-4 at any time after submission of interim or final settlement proposals…
  • FAR 52.203-12 Limitation on Payments to Influence Certain Federal Transactions.
    As prescribed in 3.808(b), insert the following clause: Limitation on Payments To influence Certain Federal Transactions (JUN 2020) (a) Definitions. As used in this clause— Agency means executive agency as defined in Federal Acquisition …
  • FAR 52.213-1 Fast Payment Procedure.
    As prescribed in 13.404, insert the following clause: Fast Payment Procedure (MAY 2006) (a) General. The Government will pay invoices based on the Contractor's delivery to a post office or common carrier (or, if shipped by other means, to…
  • FAR 52.228-15 Performance and Payment Bonds—Construction.
    As prescribed in 28.102-3(a), insert a clause substantially as follows: Performance and Payment Bonds—Construction (JUN 2020) (a) Definitions. As used in this clause— Original contract price means the award price of the contract; or, for…
  • FAR 52.232-5 Payments Under Fixed-Price Construction Contracts.
    As prescribed in 32.111(a)(5), insert the following clause: Payments Under Fixed-Price Construction Contracts (MAY 2014) (a) Payment of price. The Government shall pay the Contractor the contract price as provided in this contract. (b) P…
  • FAR 52.232-7 Payments under Time-and-Materials and Labor-Hour Contracts.
    As prescribed in 32.111(a)(7), insert the following clause: Payments Under Time-and-Materials and Labor-Hour Contracts (NOV 2021) The Government will pay the Contractor as follows upon the submission of vouchers approved by the Contractin…
  • FAR 52.232-12 Advance Payments.
    As prescribed in 32.412(a), insert the following clause: Advance Payments (MAY 2001) (a) Requirements for payment. Advance payments will be made under this contract (1) upon submission of properly certified invoices or vouchers by the Con…
  • FAR 52.232-16 Progress Payments.
    As prescribed in 32.502-4(a), insert the following clause: Progress Payments (NOV 2021) The Government will make progress payments to the Contractor when requested as work progresses, but not more frequently than monthly, in amounts of $2…
  • FAR 52.232-25 Prompt payment.
    As prescribed in 32.908(c), insert the following clause: Prompt Payment (JAN 2017) Notwithstanding any other payment clause in this contract, the Government will make invoice payments under the terms and conditions specified in this claus…
  • FAR 52.232-26 Prompt Payment for Fixed-Price Architect-Engineer Contracts.
    As prescribed in 32.908(a), insert the following clause: Prompt Payment for Fixed-Price Architect-Engineer Contracts (JAN 2017) Notwithstanding any other payment terms in this contract, the Government will make invoice payments under the …
  • FAR 52.232-30 Installment Payments for Commercial Products and Commercial Services.
    As prescribed in 32.206(g), insert the following clause: Installment Payments for Commercial Products and Commercial Services (NOV 2021) (a) Contractor entitlement to financing payments. The Contractor may request, and the Government shal…
  • FAR 52.232-32 Performance-Based Payments.
    As prescribed in 32.1005, insert the following clause: Performance-Based Payments (APR 2012) (a) Amount of payments and limitations on payments. Subject to such other limitations and conditions as are specified in this contract and this c…
  • FAR 52.237-6 Incremental Payment by Contractor to Government.
    …o transfer title to the contractor for increments of property, only upon receipt of those payments: Incremental Payment by Contractor to Government (APR 1984) (a) The Contractor shall perform the work called for under this contract and wi…
  • DFARS 232.007 Contract financing payments.
    (a) DoD policy is to make contract financing payments as quickly as possible. Generally, the contracting officer shall insert the standard due dates of 7 days for progress payments, and 14 days for performance-based payments and interim pay…
  • DFARS 232.906 Making payments.
    …erally, the contracting officer shall insert the standard due date of 14 days for interim payments on cost-reimbursement contracts for services in the clause at FAR 52.232-25, Prompt Payment, when using the clause with its Alternate I. (ii…
  • DFARS 252.217-7007 Payments.
    As prescribed in 217.7104(a), use the following clause: Payments (DEC 1991) (a) Progress payments, as used in this clause, means payments made before completion of work in progress under a job order. (b) Upon submission by the Contractor…
  • DFARS 252.232-7005 Reimbursement of Subcontractor Advance Payments—DoD Mentor-Protégé Program.
    …ribed in 232.412-70(b), use the following clause: Reimbursement of Subcontractor Advance Payments—DoD Mentor-Protégé Program (MAR 2024) (a) The Government will reimburse the Contractor for any advance payments made by the Contractor, as a…
  • DFARS 252.232-7011 Payments in Support of Emergencies and Contingency Operations.
    As prescribed in section 232.908, use the following clause: Payments in Support of Emergencies and Contingency Operations (MAY 2013) (a) Definitions of pertinent terms are set forth in sections 2.101, 32.001, and 32.902 of the Federal Acq…
  • DFARS 252.232-7012 Performance-Based Payments—Whole-Contract Basis.
    As prescribed in 232.1005-70(a)(1), use the following clause: PERFORMANCE-BASED PAYMENTS—WHOLE-CONTRACT BASIS (DEC 2022) (a) Performance-based payments shall form the basis for the contract financing payments provided under this contract, …
  • DFARS 252.232-7013 Performance-Based Payments—Deliverable-Item Basis.
    As prescribed in 232.1005-70(a)(2), use the following clause: Performance-Based Payments—Deliverable-Item Basis (DEC 2022) (a) Performance-based payments shall form the basis for the contract financing payments provided under this contrac…
  • FAR 22.406-6 Payrolls and statements.
    …contractor must submit or cause to be submitted, within 7 calendar days after the regular payment date of the payroll week covered, for the contractor and each subcontractor, (1) copies of weekly payrolls applicable to the contract, and (2)…
  • FAR 32.009-1 General.
    …C. 3903(a), agencies other than the Department of Defense (DoD) shall provide accelerated payments, to the fullest extent permitted by law, with a goal of 15 days after receipt of a proper invoice and all other required documentation, if a …
  • 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…

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