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48 CFR · Federal Acquisition Regulation and Defense supplement

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70 sections with “Treatment”: the first 40

  • DFARS 252.223-7006 Prohibition on Storage, Treatment, and Disposal of Toxic or Hazardous Materials.
    …rescribed in 223.7106 and 223.7106(a), use the following clause: Prohibition on Storage, Treatment, and Disposal of Toxic or Hazardous Materials—Basic (SEP 2014) (a) Definitions. As used in this clause— Storage means a non-transitory, se…
  • FAR 3.204 Treatment of violations.
    …ee of the Government; and (2) Intended by the gratuity to obtain a contract or favorable treatment under a contract (intent generally must be inferred). (b) Agency procedures shall afford the contractor an opportunity to appear with couns…
  • DFARS 237.104 Personal services contracts.
    …is authority may be used to acquire— (1) Direct health care services provided in medical treatment facilities; (2) Health care services at locations outside of medical treatment facilities (such as the provision of medical screening exami…
  • DFARS 252.225-7021 Trade Agreements.
    …her than petroleum and any product derived from petroleum, that are not granted duty-free treatment under the Caribbean Basin Economic Recovery Act (19 U.S.C. 2703(b)). These exclusions presently consist of— (i) Textiles, apparel articles,…
  • FAR 25.003 Definitions.
    …ticle or articles from which it was transformed; and (ii) Is not excluded from duty-free treatment for Caribbean countries under 19 U.S.C. 2703(b). (A) For this reason, the following articles are not Caribbean Basin country end products: …
  • DFARS 252.225-7040 Contractor Personnel Supporting U.S. Armed Forces Deployed Outside the United States.
    …eopardized. Examples of emergency medical and dental care include examination and initial treatment of victims of sexual assault; refills of prescriptions for life-dependent drugs; repair of broken bones, lacerations, infections; and trauma…
  • DFARS 223.7103 Procedures.
    (a)(1) Storage, treatment, or disposal of toxic or hazardous materials not owned by DoD on a DoD installation is prohibited unless— (i) One or more of the exceptions set forth in 223.7104(a) is met including requisite approvals; or (ii) S…
  • DFARS 225.003 Definitions.
    …t— (i) Is in a category listed in 225.401-70; and (ii) Is not subject to discriminatory treatment, due to the applicability of a trade agreement to a particular acquisition; (2) A foreign construction material that is not subject to disc…
  • FAR 29.304 Matters requiring special consideration.
    …ractor take certain actions with regard to payment, nonpayment, refund, protest, or other treatment of a specified tax. Such special treatment may be appropriate when there is doubt as to the applicability or allocability of the tax, or whe…
  • FAR 31.109 Advance agreements.
    …31.6, and 31.7, contracting officers and contractors should seek advance agreement on the treatment of special or unusual costs and on statistical sampling methodologies at 31.201-6(c). However, an advance agreement is not an absolute requi…
  • FAR 52.225-5 Trade Agreements.
    …ticle or articles from which it was transformed; and (ii) Is not excluded from duty-free treatment for Caribbean countries under 19 U.S.C. 2703(b). (A) For this reason, the following articles are not Caribbean Basin country end products: …
  • DFARS 223.7104 Exceptions.
    …e prohibition of 10 U.S.C. 2692 does not apply to any of the following: (1) The storage, treatment, or disposal of materials that will be or have been used in connection with an activity of DoD or in connection with a service to be perform…
  • DFARS 234.7002 Policy.
    …A) The major weapon system is a commercial product as defined in FAR 2.101; and (B) Such treatment is necessary to meet national security objectives; and (ii) The congressional defense committees are notified at least 30 days before such …
  • FAR 1.602-2 Responsibilities.
    …lable for obligation; (b) Ensure that contractors receive impartial, fair, and equitable treatment; (c) Request and consider the advice of specialists in audit, law, engineering, information security, transportation, and other fields, as …
  • FAR 2.101 Definitions.
    …therwise released into the environment (including fugitive emissions) prior to recycling, treatment, or disposal; and (ii) Reduces the hazards to public health and the environment associated with the release of such substances, pollutants,…
  • FAR 3.101-1 General.
    … as authorized by statute or regulation, with complete impartiality and with preferential treatment for none. Transactions relating to the expenditure of public funds require the highest degree of public trust and an impeccable standard of …
  • FAR 3.501-2 General.
    …15-2, paragraph A., column (2) under “Formats for Submission of Line Item Summaries”) and treatment of unreasonable price quotations (see 15.405).
  • FAR 3.502-1 Definitions.
    … or subcontractor employee for the purpose of improperly obtaining or rewarding favorable treatment in connection with a prime contract or in connection with a subcontract relating to a prime contract. Person, means a corporation, partners…
  • FAR 3.502-2 Subcontractor kickbacks.
    …rs from accepting payments for the purpose of improperly obtaining or rewarding favorable treatment in connection with a prime contract or a subcontract relating to a prime contract. The Kickbacks statute— (a) Prohibits any person from— (…
  • FAR 3.601 Policy.
    …ts and their Government duties, and to avoid the appearance of favoritism or preferential treatment by the Government toward its employees. (b) For purposes of this subpart, special Government employees (as defined in 18 U.S.C. 202) perfor…
  • FAR 5.405 Exchange of acquisition information.
    …a, between these agencies or contracting activities is necessary to promote uniformity of treatment of major issues and the resolution of particularly difficult or controversial issues. The exchange and coordination of information is partic…
  • FAR 7.403 General Services Administration assistance and OMB guidance.
    …t/uploads/legacy_drupal_files/omb/circulars/A94/a094.pdf); and (2) Appendix B, Budgetary Treatment of Lease-Purchases and Leases of Capital Assets, of OMB Circular A-11, Preparation, Submission, and Execution of the Budget, (https://www.wh…
  • FAR 9.106-4 Reports.
    …ons. (b) When the contractor surveyed is a small business that has received preferential treatment on an ongoing contract under Section 8(a) of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 637) or has received a Certificate of Competency during the l…
  • FAR 11.603 Procedures.
    …ractor or supplier to fill a rated order, ensuring that rated orders receive preferential treatment by contractors or suppliers, or require rating authority for items not automatically ratable under the DPAS, should promptly seek special pr…
  • FAR 18.202 Defense or recovery from certain events.
    …n emergency or major disaster. (See 2.101.) (c) Commercial product or commercial service treatment. Contracting officers may treat any acquisition of supplies or services as an acquisition of commercial products or commercial services if t…
  • FAR 23.302 Hazardous material identification and notice of material safety data.
    …ll hazards to which they may be exposed; (2) Relative symptoms and appropriate emergency treatment; and (3) Proper conditions and precautions for safe use and exposure. (b) To accomplish this objective, it is necessary to obtain certain …
  • FAR 25.001 General.
    … end products and construction materials from certain countries receive nondiscriminatory treatment in evaluation with domestic offers. Generally, the dollar value of the acquisition determines which of the trade agreements applies. Excepti…
  • FAR 25.403 World Trade Organization Government Procurement Agreement and Free Trade Agreements.
    …a) Eligible products from WTO GPA and FTA countries are entitled to the nondiscriminatory treatment specified in 25.402(a)(1). The WTO GPA and FTAs specify procurement procedures designed to ensure fairness (see 25.408). (b) Thresholds. (1…
  • FAR 25.502 Application.
    …er. (2) If no evaluation preference was applied (i.e., offers afforded nondiscriminatory treatment under the Buy American statute), resolve ties between domestic and foreign offers by a witnessed drawing of lots by an impartial individual.…
  • FAR 27.408 Cosponsored research and development activities.
    …ricted computer software in accordance with 27.404-2(c) or (d), as applicable; or if this treatment is inconsistent with the purpose of the contract, rights to the data may, if so negotiated and stated in the contract, be treated in a manne…
  • FAR 28.307-2 Liability.
    …do not permit workers' compensation to be written by private carriers. (See 28.305(c) for treatment of contracts subject to the Defense Base Act.) (b) General liability. (1) The contracting officer shall require bodily injury liability ins…
  • FAR 29.101 Resolving tax problems.
    …officers should request assistance from the agency-designated legal counsel. (b) To keep treatment within an agency consistent, contracting officers or other authorized personnel shall consult the agency-designated counsel before negotiati…
  • FAR 31.001 Definitions.
    …e Internal Revenue Service as set forth in the Internal Revenue Code for preferential tax treatment regarding contributions, investments, and distributions. Any other plan is a nonqualified pension plan. Self-insurance charge means a cost …
  • FAR 31.202 Direct costs.
    … may treat any direct cost of a minor dollar amount as an indirect cost if the accounting treatment— (1) Is consistently applied to all final cost objectives; and (2) Produces substantially the same results as treating the cost as a direc…
  • FAR 31.204 Application of principles and procedures.
    …on of allowability shall be based on the principles and standards in this subpart and the treatment of similar or related selected items. When more than one subsection in 31.205 is relevant to a contractor cost, the cost shall be apportione…
  • FAR 31.205-41 Taxes.
    …rged to such work in excess of that amount resulting from application of the preferential treatment are unallowable. These provisions intend that tax preference attributable to Government contract activity be realized by the Government. The…
  • FAR 31.205-42 Termination costs.
    …tract terminations generally give rise to the incurrence of costs or the need for special treatment of costs that would not have arisen had the contract not been terminated. The following cost principles peculiar to termination situations a…
  • FAR 37.101 Definitions.
    …esidential care, recreational or rehabilitative programs, and detention, correctional, or treatment services. Nonpersonal services contract means a contract under which the personnel rendering the services are not subject, either by the co…
  • FAR 37.401 Policy.
    …spects of services rendered (e.g., professional judgments, diagnosis for specific medical treatment); (c) Require that the contractor indemnify the Government for any liability producing act or omission by the contractor, its employees and…
  • FAR 42.302 Contract administration functions.
    …d pricing rate agreements (see 15.407-3). (6) Negotiate advance agreements applicable to treatment of costs under contracts currently assigned for administration (see 31.109). (7) Determine the allowability of costs suspended or disapprov…

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.