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48 CFR · Federal Acquisition Regulation and Defense supplement

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48 sections with “Suspended”: the first 40

  • FAR 52.209-6 Protecting the Government's Interest When Subcontracting With Contractors Debarred, Suspended, Proposed for Debarment, or Voluntarily Excluded.
    …use: Protecting the Government's Interest When Subcontracting With Contractors Debarred, Suspended, Proposed for Debarment, or Voluntarily Excluded (JAN 2025) (a) Definition. Commercially available off-the-shelf (COTS) item, as used in th…
  • FAR 9.405-2 Restrictions on subcontracting.
    (a) When a contractor debarred, suspended, proposed for debarment, or voluntarily excluded, is proposed as a subcontractor for any subcontract subject to Government consent (see subpart 44.2), contracting officers shall not consent to subco…
  • DFARS 209.405 Effect of listing.
    …compelling reason exists for it to conduct business with a contractor that is debarred or suspended from procurement programs, it must provide written notice of the determination to the General Services Administration (GSA), GSA Suspension …
  • FAR 9.405 Effect of listing.
    (a) Contractors debarred, suspended, proposed for debarment, or voluntarily excluded, are excluded from receiving contracts, and agencies shall not solicit offers from, award contracts to, or consent to subcontracts with these contractors, …
  • FAR 9.405-1 Continuation of current contracts.
    (a) Contractors debarred, suspended, proposed for debarment, or voluntarily excluded. (1) Notwithstanding the debarment, suspension, proposed debarment, or voluntary exclusion, of a contractor, agencies may continue contracts or subcontract…
  • FAR 3.1003 Requirements.
    …at 3.1004. (2) Whether or not the clause at 52.203-13 is applicable, a contractor may be suspended and/or debarred for knowing failure by a principal to timely disclose to the Government, in connection with the award, performance, or close…
  • FAR 9.106-1 Conditions for preaward surveys.
    …y, the surveying activity shall ascertain whether the prospective contractor is debarred, suspended, or ineligible (see subpart 9.4). If the prospective contractor is debarred, suspended, or ineligible, the surveying activity shall advise t…
  • FAR 9.407-3 Procedures.
    …t. (c) Notice of suspension. When a contractor and any specifically named affiliates are suspended, they shall be immediately advised using the procedures in 9.406-3(c)(1) and (2)— (1) That they have been suspended and that the suspension…
  • FAR 22.1802 Policy.
    …from its obligations under paragraph (b) of the clause at 52.222-54. If the contractor is suspended, debarred, or subject to a voluntary exclusion as a result of the MOU termination, the contractor is not eligible to participate in E-Verify…
  • FAR 32.503-6 Suspension or reduction of payments.
    …ess payments. If the system or controls are deemed inadequate, progress payments shall be suspended (or the portion of progress payments associated with the unacceptable portion of the contractor's accounting system shall be suspended) unti…
  • FAR 42.302 Contract administration functions.
    …rently assigned for administration (see 31.109). (7) Determine the allowability of costs suspended or disapproved as required (see subpart 42.8), direct the suspension or disapproval of costs when there is reason to believe they should be …
  • FAR 52.212-3 Offeror Representations and Certifications—Commercial Products and Commercial Services.
    …services that are used only to promote health or education; or (6) Have been voluntarily suspended. Sensitive technology— (1) Means hardware, software, telecommunications equipment, or any other technology that is to be used specifically…
  • FAR 52.222-40 Notification of Employee Rights Under the National Labor Relations Act.
    …et forth in paragraphs (a) through (d) of this clause, this contract may be terminated or suspended in whole or in part, and the Contractor may be suspended or debarred in accordance with 29 CFR 471.14 and subpart 9.4. Such other sanctions …
  • FAR 52.242-14 Suspension of Work.
    …If the performance of all or any part of the work is, for an unreasonable period of time, suspended, delayed, or interrupted (1) by an act of the Contracting Officer in the administration of this contract, or (2) by the Contracting Officer'…
  • DFARS 242.803 Disallowing costs after incurrence.
    …ministrative contracting officer; and (D) Issuing DCAA Forms 1, Notice of Contract Costs Suspended and/or Disapproved, to deduct costs where allowability is questionable. (ii) The administrative contracting officer— (A) Approves all comp…
  • FAR 2.101 Definitions.
    …om Government contracting and Government-approved subcontracting; a contractor that is “ “suspended” is disqualified.” Sustainable acquisition means acquiring products and services in order to create and maintain conditions— (1) Under whi…
  • FAR 9.104-4 Subcontractor responsibility.
    … prospective subcontractors (but see 9.405 and 9.405-2 regarding debarred, ineligible, or suspended firms). Determinations of prospective subcontractor responsibility may affect the Government's determination of the prospective prime contra…
  • FAR 9.104-6 Federal Awardee Performance and Integrity Information System.
    … a grant, the contracting officer shall, unless the contractor has already been debarred, suspended, or has agreed to a voluntary exclusion— (1) Promptly request such additional information from the offeror as the offeror deems necessary i…
  • FAR 9.400 Scope of subpart.
    …uses given in 9.406-2 and 9.407-2; (2) Provides for the listing of contractors debarred, suspended, proposed for debarment, and declared ineligible (see the definition of ineligible in 2.101); and (3) Sets forth the consequences of this l…
  • FAR 9.403 Definitions.
    …imilar management, ownership, or principal employees as the contractor that was debarred, suspended, or proposed for debarment. Agency means any executive department, military department or defense agency, or other agency or independent es…
  • FAR 9.404 Exclusions in the System for Award Management.
    … exclusion record in SAM contains the— (1) Names and addresses of the entities debarred, suspended, proposed for debarment, voluntarily excluded, declared ineligible, or excluded or disqualified under the nonprocurement common rule, with c…
  • FAR 9.407-1 General.
    …e existence of a cause for suspension does not necessarily require that the contractor be suspended. The suspending and debarring official should consider the seriousness of the contractor's acts or omissions and may, but is not required to…
  • FAR 9.409 Contract clause.
    …09-6, Protecting the Government's Interest when Subcontracting with Contractors Debarred, Suspended, Proposed for Debarment, or Voluntarily Excluded, in solicitations and contracts where the contract value exceeds $45,000.
  • FAR 14.404-2 Rejection of individual bids.
    …ially unbalanced (see 15.404-1(g)). (h) Bids received from any person or concern that is suspended, debarred, proposed for debarment, or declared ineligible as of the bid opening date shall be rejected unless a compelling reason determinat…
  • FAR 19.306 Protesting a firm's status as a HUBZone small business concern.
    …al has been filed, then the contracting officer shall consider whether performance can be suspended until an (AA/GC&BD) decision is rendered. (5) If the AA/GC&BD affirms the decision of the HUBZone Program Director, finding the protested c…
  • FAR 19.308 Protesting a firm's status as an economically disadvantaged women-owned small business concern or women-owned small business concern eligible under the Women-Owned Small Business Program.
    …al has been filed, then the contracting officer shall consider whether performance can be suspended until an OHA decision is rendered. (5) If OHA affirms the SBA Director for Government Contracting's determination finding the protested con…
  • FAR 19.602-1 Referral.
    …d, that the determination is approved by the chief of the contracting office; or (ii) Is suspended or debarred under Executive Order 11246 or subpart 9.4. (b) If a partial set-aside is involved, the contracting officer shall refer to the …
  • FAR 19.816 Exiting the 8(a) program.
    …ng contracts, and any priced options that may be exercised. (b) If an 8(a) contractor is suspended from the program (see 13 CFR 124.305), it may not receive any new 8(a) contracts unless the head of the contracting agency makes a determina…
  • FAR 22.406-9 Withholding from or suspension of contract payments.
    …nd to cover any liquidated damages due. (c) Disposition of contract payments withheld or suspended—(1) Forwarding wage underpayments to the Secretary of Labor. Upon final administrative determination, if the contractor or subcontractor has…
  • FAR 25.502 Application.
    …rors that are unacceptable for reasons other than price; e.g., nonresponsive, debarred or suspended, or a prohibited source (see Subpart 25.7). (2) Rank the remaining offers by price. (3) If the solicitation specifies award on the basis o…
  • FAR 25.702-1 Definitions.
    …ervices that are used only to promote health or education; or (vi) Have been voluntarily suspended.
  • FAR 32.006-4 Procedures.
    …verall financial condition and ability to continue performance if payments are reduced or suspended; (4) The contractor's essentiality to the national defense, or to the execution of the agency's official business; and (5) Assessment of a…
  • FAR 42.709-4 Assessing the penalty.
    …tions of unallowability may be evidenced by— (1) A DCAA Form 1, Notice of Contract Costs Suspended and/or Disapproved (see 48 CFR 242.705-2), or any similar notice which the contractor elected not to appeal and was not withdrawn by the cog…
  • FAR 42.803 Disallowing costs after incurrence.
    …ppropriate, may, where authorized by agency regulations, issue a notice of contract costs suspended and/or disapproved simultaneously to the contractor and the disbursing officer, with a copy to the cognizant contracting officer, for deduct…
  • FAR 42.1303 Stop-work orders.
    …has been made. (c) Stop-work orders should include— (1) A description of the work to be suspended; (2) Instructions concerning the contractor's issuance of further orders for materials or services; (3) Guidance to the contractor on acti…
  • FAR 52.209-5 Certification Regarding Responsibility Matters.
    …i) The Offeror and/or any of its Principals— (A) Are ( ) are not ( ) presently debarred, suspended, proposed for debarment, or declared ineligible for the award of contracts by any Federal agency; (B) Have ( ) have not ( ), within a three…
  • FAR 52.212-5 Contract Terms and Conditions Required To Implement Statutes or Executive Orders—Commercial Products and Commercial Services.
    …09-6, Protecting the Government's Interest When Subcontracting With Contractors Debarred, Suspended, Proposed for Debarment, or Voluntarily Excluded. (JAN 2025) (31 U.S.C. 6101 note). __(13) 52.209-9, Updates of Publicly Available Informat…
  • FAR 52.213-4 Terms and Conditions—Simplified Acquisitions (Other Than Commercial Products and Commercial Services).
    …09-6, Protecting the Government's Interest When Subcontracting with Contractors Debarred, Suspended, Proposed for Debarment, or Voluntarily Excluded (JAN 2025) (Applies to contracts over the threshold specified in FAR 9.405-2(b) on the date…
  • FAR 52.222-26 Equal Opportunity.
    …lation, or order of the Secretary of Labor, this contract may be canceled, terminated, or suspended in whole or in part and the Contractor may be declared ineligible for further Government contracts, under the procedures authorized in Execu…
  • FAR 52.222-54 Employment Eligibility Verification.
    …excused from its obligations under paragraph (b) of this clause. If the Contractor is not suspended, debarred, or subject to a voluntary exclusion, then the Contractor must reenroll in E-Verify. (c) Web site. Information on registration fo…

FAR (chapter 1)

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