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48 CFR · Federal Acquisition Regulation and Defense supplement

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77 sections with “Production plan”: the first 40

  • FAR 31.205-25 Manufacturing and production engineering costs.
    (a) The costs of manufacturing and production engineering effort as described in (1) through (4) below are all allowable: (1) Developing and deploying new or improved materials, systems, processes, methods, equipment, tools and techniques …
  • FAR 7.105 Contents of written acquisition plans.
    …plain and provide reasons for any urgency if it results in concurrency of development and production or constitutes justification for not providing for full and open competition. (6) Trade-offs. Discuss the expected consequences of trade-o…
  • FAR 31.205-42 Termination costs.
    …racting officer should consider the contractor's plans and orders for current and planned production when determining if items can reasonably be used on other work of the contractor. Contemporaneous purchases of common items by the contract…
  • FAR 42.1104 Surveillance requirements.
    (a) The contract administration office determines the extent of production surveillance on the basis of (1) the criticality (degree of importance to the Government) assigned by the contracting officer (see 42.1105) to the supplies or servic…
  • FAR 52.245-1 Government Property.
    …metals means silver, gold, platinum, palladium, iridium, osmium, rhodium, and ruthenium. Production scrap means unusable material resulting from production, engineering, operations and maintenance, repair, and research and development cont…
  • FAR 2.101 Definitions.
    … to provide direct support of a weapon system that is essential to research, development, production, operation or maintenance of the system. Affiliates means associated business concerns or individuals if, directly or indirectly either on…
  • FAR 15.408 Solicitation provisions and contract clauses.
    …ed (e.g., under a letter contract), describe them on an attached supporting page. When preproduction or startup costs are significant, or when specifically requested to do so by the Contracting Officer, provide a full identification and exp…
  • FAR 48.104-1 Determining sharing period.
    …ted. (c) For engineering-development contracts and contracts containing low-rate-initial-production or early production units, the end of the sharing period is based not on a calendar date, but on acceptance of a specified quantity of futu…
  • FAR 48.201 Clauses for supply or service contracts.
    … solicitations and contracts, and solicitations and contracts containing low-rate-initial-production or early production units, the contracting officer must modify the clause at 52.248-1, Value Engineering, by— (1) Revising paragraph (i)(3…
  • DFARS 207.106 Additional requirements for major systems.
    …ng officer is prohibited by 10 U.S.C. 3208(d)(1) from requiring offers for development or production of major systems that would enable the Government to use technical data to competitively reprocure identical items or components of the sys…
  • DFARS 242.1104 Surveillance requirements.
    (a) The cognizant contract administration office (CAO)— (i) Shall perform production surveillance on all contractors that have Criticality Designator A or B contracts; (ii) Shall not perform production surveillance on contractors that hav…
  • DFARS 252.228-7001 Ground and Flight Risk.
    …ehicles), including emerging technologies that would commonly be considered aircraft. New production articles become aircraft at a stage of manufacture or production when a wing, portion of a wing, or engine is attached to a fuselage. Blend…
  • DFARS 252.242-7004 Material Management and Accounting System.
    …-283). Valid time-phased requirements means material that is— (1) Needed to fulfill the production plan, including reasonable quantities for scrap, shrinkage, yield, etc.; and (2) Charged or billed to contracts or other cost objectives i…
  • FAR 52.219-9 Small Business Subcontracting Plan.
    …an (including goals) that covers the offeror's fiscal year and that applies to the entire production of commercial products and commercial services sold by either the entire company or a portion thereof (e.g., division, plant, or product li…
  • DFARS 217.172 Multiyear contracts for supplies.
    …rocurement of aircraft, the budget request includes full funding of procurement funds for production beyond advance procurement activities of aircraft units to be produced in the fiscal year covered by the budget; (3) Cancellation provisio…
  • DFARS 225.870-1 General.
    …may be made, from time to time, in these commitments, obligations, or covenants. (b) For production planning purposes, Canada is part of the defense industrial base (see 225.870-2(b)). (c) The Canadian Commercial Corporation will award an…
  • DFARS 225.7003-3 Exceptions.
    ….C. 2350a(g)). However, this exception does not apply to any acquisitions under follow-on production contracts. (b) One or more of the following exceptions may apply to an end item or component that includes any of the following, under a p…
  • DFARS 228.370-1 Definitions.
    …ehicles), including emerging technologies that would commonly be considered aircraft. New production articles become aircraft at a stage of manufacture or production when a wing, portion of a wing, or engine is attached to a fuselage. Blend…
  • DFARS 234.004 Acquisition strategy.
    …tracting officer shall— (A) Not use cost-reimbursement line items for the acquisition of production of major defense acquisition programs, unless the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment (USD(A&S)), or the milestone d…
  • DFARS 242.7201 Definitions.
    …stems. Valid time-phased requirements means material that is— (1) Needed to fulfill the production plan, including reasonable quantities for scrap, shrinkage, yield, etc.; and (2) Charged or billed to contracts or other cost objectives i…
  • FAR 15.407-4 Should-cost review.
    …s, such as material and labor, and associated indirect costs, usually associated with the production of major systems. When a program should-cost review is conducted relative to a contractor proposal, a separate audit report on the proposal…
  • FAR 17.106-1 General.
    …In determining cancellation ceilings, the contracting officer must estimate reasonable preproduction or startup, labor learning, and other nonrecurring costs to be incurred by an “average” prime contractor or subcontractor, which would be a…
  • FAR 42.302 Contract administration functions.
    …tion of Government-furnished property and ensure appropriate consideration. (31) Perform production support, surveillance, and status reporting, including timely reporting of potential and actual slippages in contract delivery schedules. …
  • FAR 45.101 Definitions.
    …metals means silver, gold, platinum, palladium, iridium, osmium, rhodium, and ruthenium. Production scrap means unusable material resulting from production, engineering, operations and maintenance, repair, and research and development cont…
  • FAR 52.212-3 Offeror Representations and Certifications—Commercial Products and Commercial Services.
    …nt. Restricted business operations means business operations in Sudan that include power production activities, mineral extraction activities, oil-related activities, or the production of military equipment, as those terms are defined in t…
  • DFARS 217.208-70 Additional clauses.
    …citation or award. (b) When a surge option is needed in support of industrial capability production planning, use the clause at 252.217-7001, Surge Option, in solicitations and contracts. (1) Insert the percentage or quantity of increase …
  • DFARS 241.102 Applicability.
    …rojects, including those authorized by— (A) 10 U.S.C. 2394 for energy, fuels, and energy production facilities for periods not to exceed 30 years; (B) 10 U.S.C. 2394a for renewable energy for periods not to exceed 25 years; (C) 10 U.S.C.…
  • FAR 19.202-1 Encouraging small business participation in acquisitions.
    …ies and services (except construction) into reasonably small lots (not less than economic production runs) to permit offers on quantities less than the total requirement. (b) Plan acquisitions such that, if practicable, more than one small…
  • FAR 31.205-17 Idle facilities and idle capacity costs.
    …or (2) Were necessary when acquired and are now idle because of changes in requirements, production economies, reorganization, termination, or other causes which could not have been reasonably foreseen. (Costs of idle facilities are allowa…
  • FAR 35.011 Data.
    …e the delivery of any such data. (b) In planning a developmental program when subsequent production contracts are contemplated, consideration should be given to the need and time required to obtain a technical package (plans, drawings, spe…
  • FAR 42.1101 General.
    Production surveillance is a function of contract administration used to determine contractor progress and to identify any factors that may delay performance. Production surveillance involves Government review and analysis of (a) contractor…
  • FAR 49.202 Profit.
    …ly should not be required, but if available should be considered); (2) Engineering work, production scheduling, planning, technical study and supervision, and other necessary services; (3) Efficiency of the contractor, with particular reg…
  • FAR 49.206-2 Bases for settlement proposals.
    …1436) may be used if approved in advance by the TCO as in the following examples: (i) If production has not commenced and the accumulated costs represent planning and preproduction or get ready expenses. (ii) If, under the contractor's ac…
  • FAR 52.215-2 Audit and Records—Negotiation.
    …ed in paragraphs (a), (b), (c), (d), and (e) of this clause, for examination, audit, or reproduction, until 3 years after final payment under this contract or for any shorter period specified in Subpart 4.7, Contractor Records Retention, of…
  • FAR 52.222-2 Payment for Overtime Premiums.
    …with emergencies such as those resulting from accidents, natural disasters, breakdowns of production equipment, or occasional production bottlenecks of a sporadic nature; (2) By indirect-labor employees such as those performing duties in c…
  • FAR 52.232-12 Advance Payments.
    … contingent liabilities, except for liability resulting from the renegotiation of defense production contracts, in the financial statements furnished to the administering office. (4) None of the terms in this clause conflict with the autho…
  • DFARS 252.209-7007 Prohibited Financial Interests for Lead System Integrators.
    …tem integrator with system responsibility means a prime contractor for the development or production of a major system, if the prime contractor is not expected at the time of award to perform a substantial portion of the work on the system …
  • DFARS 252.209-7009 Organizational Conflict of Interest—Major Defense Acquisition Program.
    …ted from participating as a prime contractor or major subcontractor in the development or production of a weapon system under the major defense acquisition program or pre-major defense acquisition program. (d) Organizational Conflict of In…
  • DFARS 252.215-7010 Requirements for Certified Cost or Pricing Data and Data Other Than Certified Cost or Pricing Data.
    …tailed technical data to demonstrate that the modification is minor (e.g., information on production processes and material differences); and (3) The national stock number (NSN) for the comparable commercial product, if one is assigned, an…
  • DFARS 252.235-7003 Frequency Authorization.
    …this clause, including this paragraph (d), in all subcontracts requiring the development, production, construction, testing, or operation of a device for which a radio frequency authorization is required. (End of clause) Alternate I. As p…

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