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139 sections with “Progress payment”: the first 40

  • FAR 32.501-1 Customary progress payment rates.
    (a) The customary progress payment rate is 80 percent, applicable to the total costs of performing the contract. The customary rate for contracts with small business concerns is 85 percent. (b) The contracting officer must— (1) Consider a…
  • FAR 32.503-2 Supervision of progress payments.
    (a) The extent of progress payments supervision, by prepayment review or periodic review, should vary inversely with the contractor's experience, performance record, reliability, quality of management, and financial strength, and with the a…
  • 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 32.504 Subcontracts under prime contracts providing progress payments.
    …include either performance-based payments, provided they meet the criteria in 32.1003, or progress payments, provided they meet the criteria in subpart 32.5 for customary progress payments, but not both. Subcontracts for commercial purchase…
  • 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…
  • DFARS 252.232-7016 Notice of Progress Payments or Performance-Based Payments.
    As prescribed in 232.1005-70(c), insert the following provision: Notice of Progress Payments or Performance-Based Payments (APR 2020) (a) The need for customary progress payments in accordance with subpart 32.5 of the Federal Acquisition …
  • DFARS 252.232-7018 Progress Payments—Multiple Lots.
    As prescribed in 232.502-4-70(c), use the following clause: Progress Payments—Multiple Lots (MAY 2023) (a) Definitions. As used in this clause— Lot means one or more fixed-price deliverable line items or deliverable subline items represe…
  • FAR 32.501-2 Unusual progress payments.
    (a) The contracting officer may provide unusual progress payments only if— (1) The contract necessitates predelivery expenditures that are large in relation to contract price and in relation to the contractor's working capital and credit; …
  • FAR 32.503-3 Initiation of progress payments and review of accounting system.
    …ssed of an adequate accounting system and controls, and (3) in sound financial condition, progress payments in amounts requested by the contractor should be approved as a matter of course. (b) For all other contractors, the ACO shall not a…
  • FAR 52.232-13 Notice of Progress Payments.
    …the following provision in invitations for bids and requests for proposals that include a Progress Payments clause: Notice of Progress Payments (APR 1984) The need for customary progress payments conforming to the regulations in subpart 3…
  • FAR 52.232-14 Notice of Availability of Progress Payments Exclusively for Small Business Concerns.
    …ids in response to the same invitation and (b) only the small business bidders would need progress payments: Notice of Availability of Progress Payments Exclusively for Small Business Concerns (APR 1984) The Progress Payments clause will …
  • DFARS 252.232-7002 Progress Payments for Foreign Military Sales Acquisitions.
    As prescribed in 232.502-4-70(a), use the following clause: Progress Payments for Foreign Military Sales Acquisitions (MAY 2023) If this contract includes foreign military sales (FMS) requirements, the Contractor shall— (a) Submit separa…
  • FAR 32.103 Progress payments under construction contracts.
    When satisfactory progress has not been achieved by a contractor during any period for which a progress payment is to be made, a percentage of the progress payment may be retained. Retainage should not be used as a substitute for good contr…
  • FAR 32.502-1 Use of customary progress payments.
    The contracting officer may use a Progress Payments clause in solicitations and contracts, in accordance with this subpart. The contracting officer must reject as nonresponsive bids conditioned on progress payments when the solicitation did…
  • FAR 32.503-4 Approval of progress payment requests.
    …trols have been established (see 32.503-3 above) the ACO may, in approving any particular progress payment request (including initial requests on new contracts), rely upon that accounting system and upon the contractor's certification, with…
  • FAR 52.232-15 Progress Payments Not Included.
    … solicitation will not contain one of the provisions prescribed in 32.502-3 (a) and (b): Progress Payments Not Included (APR 1984) A progress payments clause is not included in this solicitation, and will not be added to the resulting con…
  • DFARS 252.232-7004 DoD Progress Payment Rates.
    As prescribed in 232.502-4-70(b), use the following clause: DoD Progress Payment Rates (OCT 2014) If the Contractor is a small business concern, the Progress Payments clause of this contract is modified to change each mention of the progr…
  • DFARS 232.501-1 Customary progress payment rates.
    (a) The customary progress payment rates for DoD contracts, including contracts that contain foreign military sales (FMS) requirements, are 80 percent for large business concerns and 90 percent for small business concerns.
  • DFARS 232.501-2 Unusual progress payments.
    Follow the procedures at PGI 232.501-2 for approval of unusual progress payments.
  • FAR 32.110 Payment of subcontractors under cost-reimbursement prime contracts.
    …g conditions: (a) The payments are made under the criteria in subpart 32.5 for customary progress payments based on costs, 32.202-1 for commercial product or commercial service purchase financing, or 32.1003 for performance-based payments,…
  • 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 32.904 Determining payment due dates.
    …rmination of an interest penalty on the actual date of acceptance. (ii) The due date for progress payments is the 30th day after Government approval of contractor estimates of work or services accomplished. For the sole purpose of computin…
  • FAR 52.232-5 Payments Under Fixed-Price Construction Contracts.
    …Government shall pay the Contractor the contract price as provided in this contract. (b) Progress payments. The Government shall make progress payments monthly as the work proceeds, or at more frequent intervals as determined by the Contra…
  • FAR 52.232-27 Prompt Payment for Construction Contracts.
    …re several types of invoice payments that may occur under this contract, as follows: (i) Progress payments, if provided for elsewhere in this contract, based on Contracting Officer approval of the estimated amount and value of work or serv…
  • 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…
  • FAR 52.232-26 Prompt Payment for Fixed-Price Architect-Engineer Contracts.
    …ptance is deemed to occur on the effective date of the settlement. (ii) The due date for progress payments is the 30th day after Government approval of Contractor estimates of work or services accomplished. (iii) If the designated billing…
  • FAR 52.237-4 Payment by Government to Contractor.
    …overnment will pay to the Contractor ___ [fill in amount]. (b) The Government shall make progress payments monthly as the work proceeds, or at more frequent intervals as determined by the Contracting Officer, on estimates approved by the C…
  • DFARS 232.503-6 Suspension or reduction of payments.
    …contracting officer must prepare a supplementary analysis of the contractor's request for progress payments and calculate the loss ratio adjustment using the procedures in FAR 32.503-6(g). (ii) The contracting officer may request the contr…
  • FAR 32.112-1 Subcontractor assertions of nonpayment.
    …er may determine— (1) For a construction contract, whether the contractor has made— (i) Progress payments to the subcontractor or supplier in compliance with Chapter 39 of Title 31, United States Code (Prompt Payment Act); or (ii) Final …
  • FAR 52.216-7 Allowable Cost and Payment.
    …Invoicing. (1) The Government will make payments to the Contractor when requested as work progresses, but (except for small business concerns) not more often than once every 2 weeks, in amounts determined to be allowable by the Contracting …
  • DFARS 252.232-7003 Electronic Submission of Payment Requests and Receiving Reports.
    …; (ii) Performance-based payments; (iii) Commercial advance and interim payments; (iv) Progress payments based on cost under the clause at Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 52.232-16, Progress Payments; (v) Progress payments based on…
  • DFARS 252.232-7006 Wide Area WorkFlow Payment Instructions.
    …ng report document type(s) for fixed price line items for services.) (iii) For customary progress payments based on costs incurred, submit a progress payment request. (iv) For performance based payments, submit a performance based payment…
  • FAR 32.102 Description of contract financing methods.
    …e of the contracts. Since they are not measured by performance, they differ from partial, progress, or other payments based on the performance or partial performance of a contract. Advance payments may be made to prime contractors for the p…
  • FAR 32.113 Customary contract financing.
    …pbuilding, or ship conversion, alteration, or repair, when agency regulations provide for progress payments based on a percentage or stage of completion. (b) Financing of construction or architect-engineer services purchased under the auth…
  • FAR 32.501 General.
    Progress payments may be customary or unusual. Customary progress payments are those made under the general guidance in this subpart, using the customary progress payment rate, the cost base, and frequency of payment established in the Prog…
  • FAR 32.502-3 Solicitation provisions.
    (a) The contracting officer shall insert the provision at 52.232-13, Notice of Progress Payments, in invitations for bids and requests for proposals that include a Progress Payments clause. (b)(1) Under the authority of the statutes cited …
  • FAR 32.502-4 Contract clauses.
    (a)(1) Insert the clause at 52.232-16, Progress Payments, in— (i) Solicitations that may result in contracts providing for progress payments based on costs; and (ii) Fixed-price contracts under which the Government will provide progress p…
  • FAR 32.503-9 Liquidation rates—alternate method.
    …n rate would result in the Government recouping under each invoice the full extent of the progress payments applicable to the costs allocable to that invoice; (6) The contractor would not be paid for more than the costs of items delivered …
  • FAR 32.503-10 Establishing alternate liquidation rates.
    …iquidation rate is— (1) High enough to result in Government recoupment of the applicable progress payments on each billing; and (2) Supported by documentation included in the administration office contract file. (b) The minimum liquidati…
  • 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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