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48 CFR · Federal Acquisition Regulation and Defense supplement

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50 sections with “Standard Form 28”: the first 40

  • FAR 52.222-41 Service Contract Labor Standards.
    As prescribed in 22.1006(a), insert the following clause: Service Contract Labor Standards (AUG 2018) (a) Definitions. As used in this clause— Contractor when this clause is used in any subcontract, shall be deemed to refer to the subcon…
  • FAR 52.228-16 Performance and Payment Bonds—Other Than Construction.
    …ised at the time of contract award. (b) The Contractor shall furnish a performance bond (Standard Form 1418) for the protection of the Government in an amount equal to ___ percent of the original contract price and a payment bond (Standard…
  • FAR 2.101 Definitions.
    …ct cost rates and forward pricing rates, if applicable, and administering cost accounting standards for all contracts in a business unit. Combatant commander means the commander of a unified or specified combatant command established in ac…
  • FAR 11.201 Identification and availability of specifications.
    …ents listed in the General Services Administration (GSA) Index of Federal Specifications, Standards and Commercial Item Descriptions, available on the DoD Acquisition Streamlining and Standardization Information System (ASSIST) website, or …
  • FAR 28.106-3 Additional bond and security.
    …and is secured in whole or in part by the original surety or sureties, agencies shall use Standard Form 1415, Consent of Surety and Increase of Penalty. Standard Form 1415 is authorized for local reproduction. (b) When additional bond cove…
  • FAR 42.302 Contract administration functions.
    …CO) has the authority to take definitive action. (11) In connection with Cost Accounting Standards (see 48 CFR 30.601 and 48 CFR chapter 99)— (i) Determine the adequacy of the contractor's disclosure statements; (ii) Determine whether di…
  • FAR 52.212-3 Offeror Representations and Certifications—Commercial Products and Commercial Services.
    …eration, and qualified as a small business under the criteria in 13 CFR part 121 and size standards in this solicitation. (2) Affiliates, as used in this definition, means business concerns, one of whom directly or indirectly controls or h…
  • FAR 52.212-5 Contract Terms and Conditions Required To Implement Statutes or Executive Orders—Commercial Products and Commercial Services.
    …es: [Contracting Officer check as appropriate.] __ (1) 52.222-41, Service Contract Labor Standards (AUG 2018) (41 U.S.C. chapter 67). __ (2) 52.222-42, Statement of Equivalent Rates for Federal Hires (MAY 2014) (29 U.S.C. 206 and 41 U.S.C…
  • FAR 52.219-1 Small Business Program Representations.
    …ion, and qualified as a small business under the criteria in 13 CFR part 121 and the size standard in paragraph (b) of this provision. (2) Affiliates, as used in this definition, means business concerns, one of whom directly or indirectly …
  • FAR 52.219-8 Utilization of Small Business Concerns.
    …t in its field of operation and qualified as a small business under the criteria and size standards in 13 CFR part 121, including the size standard that corresponds to the NAICS code assigned to the contract or subcontract. Small disadvant…
  • FAR 52.219-28 Postaward Small Business Program Rerepresentation.
    …ion, and qualified as a small business under the criteria in 13 CFR part 121 and the size standard in paragraph (d) of this clause. (2) Affiliates, as used in this definition, means business concerns, one of whom directly or indirectly con…
  • FAR 52.222-55 Minimum Wages for Contractor Workers Under Executive Order 14026.
    …ve Order 14026, and — (A) Whose wages under such contract are governed by the Fair Labor Standards Act (29 U.S.C. chapter 8), the Service Contract Labor Standards statute (41 U.S.C. chapter 67), or the Wage Rate Requirements (Construction)…
  • FAR 52.228-15 Performance and Payment Bonds—Construction.
    …formance and payment bonds to the Contracting Officer as follows: (1) Performance bonds (Standard Form 25). The penal amount of performance bonds at the time of contract award shall be 100 percent of the original contract price. (2) Payme…
  • FAR 28.106-1 Bonds and bond related forms.
    The following Standard Forms (SF's) and Optional Forms (OF's) shall be used, except in foreign countries, when a bid bond, performance or payment bond, or an individual surety is required. The bond forms shall be used as indicated in the in…
  • FAR 49.602-2 Inventory forms.
    Standard Form (SF) 1428, Inventory Disposal Schedule, and SF 1429, Inventory Disposal Schedule—Continuation Sheet, shall be used to support settlement proposals submitted on the forms specified in 49.602-1(b) and (d).
  • FAR 52.213-4 Terms and Conditions—Simplified Acquisitions (Other Than Commercial Products and Commercial Services).
    …1303(a) on the date of award of this contract). (viii) 52.222-41, Service Contract Labor Standards (AUG 2018) (41 U.S.C. chapter 67) (Applies to service contracts over $2,500 that are subject to the Service Contract Labor Standards statute…
  • DFARS 252.204-7008 Compliance with safeguarding covered defense information controls.
    …sents that it will implement the security requirements specified by National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Special Publication (SP) 800-171, “Protecting Controlled Unclassified Information in Nonfederal Information Systems an…
  • DFARS 252.234-7002 Earned Value Management System.
    … Management System (EVMS) that complies with the EVMS guidelines in the American National Standards Institute/Electronic Industries Alliance Standard 748, Earned Value Management Systems (ANSI/EIA-748); and (2) Management procedures that p…
  • DFARS 252.245-7005 Management and Reporting of Government Property.
    …wise included in this contract. The GFP module generates the electronic equivalent of the Standard Form (SF) 1428, Inventory Disposal Schedule; and (vii) Submit a request to buy back or to convert to GFP items of Contractor-acquired proper…
  • FAR 52.228-11 Individual Surety—Pledge of Assets.
    …ity requirements described in the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 28.203-1; and (2) Standard Form 28, Affidavit of Individual Surety. (b) The Contracting Officer may release a portion of the security interest on the individual surety…
  • FAR 52.228-17 Individual Surety—Pledge of Assets (Bid Guarantee).
    …ity requirements described in the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 28.203-1; and (2) Standard Form 28, Affidavit of Individual Surety. (b) The Offeror shall include with its offer the information required at paragraph (a) of this prov…
  • FAR 52.245-1 Government Property.
    …he changes. The Contractor may employ customary commercial practices, voluntary consensus standards, or industry-leading practices and standards that provide effective and efficient Government property management that are necessary and appr…
  • FAR 53.228 Bonds and insurance.
    The following standard forms are prescribed for use for bond and insurance requirements, as specified in part 28. These forms can be found at the GSA Forms Library at https://www.gsa.gov/forms. All the following forms are authorized for loc…
  • DFARS 252.242-7004 Material Management and Accounting System.
    …transactions; and (2) Assess its MMAS and take reasonable action to comply with the MMAS standards in paragraph (e) of this clause. (c) Disclosure and maintenance requirements. The Contractor shall— (1) Have policies, procedures, and ope…
  • FAR 4.1202 Solicitation provision and contract clause.
    …g Requirements. (21) 52.222-48, Exemption from Application of the Service Contract Labor Standards to Contracts for Maintenance, Calibration, or Repair of Certain Equipment-Certification . (22) 52.222-52, Exemption from Application of the…
  • FAR 19.301-2 Rerepresentation by a contractor that represented its status as a small business concern.
    …s to rerepresent their size and socioeconomic status for that order. (c) NAICS code size standard. A contractor is required to rerepresent its size status in accordance with the size standard in effect at the time of its rerepresentation t…
  • FAR 45.602-1 Inventory disposal schedules.
    …t from a contractor. Schedules that are completed in accordance with the instructions for Standard Form 1428 should be accepted. (b) Plant clearance officers shall— (1) Use Standard Form 1423 to verify, in accordance with agency procedure…
  • FAR 52.204-10 Reporting Executive Compensation and First-Tier Subcontract Awards.
    …ting purposes with respect to the fiscal year in accordance with the Financial Accounting Standards Board's Accounting Standards Codification (FASB ASC) 718, Compensation-Stock Compensation. (3) Earnings for services under non-equity incen…
  • FAR 52.219-9 Small Business Subcontracting Plan.
    …mall business concern. (7) Assign each subcontract the NAICS code and corresponding size standard that best describes the principal purpose of the subcontract. (f) A master subcontracting plan on a plant or division-wide basis that contai…
  • DFARS 206.302-1 Only one responsible source and no other supplies or services will satisfy agency requirements.
    …n competition under this authority. (S-70) Application for proprietary specifications or standards. In accordance with section 888(a) of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017 (Pub. L. 114-328), the justification and a…
  • DFARS 228.370-2 General.
    …r has explicitly refused assumption of risk of loss. If the FMS customer has accepted the standard Letter of Offer and Acceptance Standard Terms and Conditions, as described in DoD 5105.38-M, Security Assistance Management Manual, they have…
  • DFARS 252.242-7006 Accounting System Administration.
    … use in pricing follow-on acquisitions; and (18) Accounting practices in accordance with standards promulgated by the Cost Accounting Standards Board, if applicable, otherwise, Generally Accepted Accounting Principles. (d) Material weakne…
  • FAR 19.302 Protesting a small business representation or rerepresentation.
    … (ii) A copy of the size self-certification. (iii) Identification of the applicable size standard. (iv) A copy or an electronic link to the solicitation and any amendments. (v) The name, address, telephone number, email address, and fax …
  • FAR 19.307 Protesting a firm's status as a service-disabled veteran-owned small business concern.
    … file. (2) OHA will determine the merits of the status protest. (3) OHA does not have a standard timeline for issuing decisions. (i) After OHA decision. OHA will notify the contracting officer, the protester, and the protested concern of…
  • FAR 28.106-5 Consent of surety.
    …ragraph (a) of this subsection, no consent of surety is required. (c) Agencies shall use Standard Form 1414, Consent of Surety, for all types of contracts.
  • FAR 28.203-1 Acceptability of individual sureties.
    …, and of the valuation of the assets offered to be pledged, consistent with the valuation standards in 28.203-1(b)(2). If after 3 business days the contracting officer has not received a response from Treasury, the contracting officer may s…
  • FAR 28.301 Policy.
    … circumstances: (a)(1) The Government requires any contractor subject to Cost Accounting Standard (CAS) 416 (48 CFR 9004.416) to obtain insurance, by purchase or self-coverage, for the perils to which the contractor is exposed, except when…
  • FAR 35.010 Scientific and technical reports.
    …. When agencies require that completed reports be covered by a report documentation page, Standard Form (SF) 298, Report Documentation Page, the contractor should submit a copy with the report.
  • FAR 41.201 Policy.
    …rvice authorizations are found by the Secretary to be unwilling or unable to meet unusual standards for service reliability that are necessary for purposes of national defense. (3) Additionally, the head of a Federal agency may— (i) Consi…
  • FAR 49.206-3 Submission of inventory disposal schedules.
    …tten justification to support the extension. The inventory schedules shall be prepared on Standard Form 1428, Inventory Disposal Schedule.

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.