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100 sections with “appeal”: the first 40

  • FAR 19.103 Appealing the contracting officer's North American Industry Classification System code and size standard determination.
    (a) The contracting officer's determination is final unless appealed as follows: (1) An appeal of a contracting officer's NAICS code designation and the applicable size standard shall be served and filed within 10 calendar days after the i…
  • FAR 19.810 SBA appeals.
    …CFR 124.504(d)(1) (see 19.815(a) and (d)(1)). (b)(1) Notification by SBA of an intent to appeal to the agency head— (i) Must be received by the contracting officer within 5 working days after SBA is formally notified of the contracting of…
  • FAR 27.304-4 Appeals.
    … Each agency may establish and publish procedures under which any of these actions may be appealed. These appeal procedures should include administrative due process procedures and standards for fact-finding. The resolution of any appeal sh…
  • FAR 22.404-11 Wage determination appeals.
    The Secretary of Labor has established an Administrative Review Board which decides appeals of final decisions made by the Department of Labor concerning Construction Wage Rate Requirements statute wage determinations. A contracting agency …
  • FAR 33.212 Contracting officer's duties upon appeal.
    …ation, information, and support as may be required by the agency BCA for use on a pending appeal from the contracting officer's decision.
  • FAR 9.406-2 Causes for debarment.
    …al challenge to the liability, the liability is not finally determined until all judicial appeal rights have been exhausted. (2) The taxpayer is delinquent in making payment. A taxpayer is delinquent if the taxpayer has failed to pay the t…
  • FAR 19.302 Protesting a small business representation or rerepresentation.
    …l business or has dismissed all protests against it. (3) If SBA's Office of Hearings and Appeals (OHA) subsequently overturns the Area Office's determination of eligibility or dismissal, and contract award has not been made, the contractin…
  • FAR 19.306 Protesting a firm's status as a HUBZone small business concern.
    …termination. The determination is effective immediately and is final unless overturned on appeal by SBA's Associate Administrator, Office of Government Contracting and Business Development(AA/GC&BD). (1) If the contracting officer has with…
  • 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.
    …termination. The determination is effective immediately and is final unless overturned on appeal by OHA pursuant to 13 CFR part 134. (1) If the contracting officer has withheld contract award and SBA has denied or dismissed the protest, th…
  • FAR 19.502-8 Rejecting Small Business Administration recommendations.
    …of the recommendation. (b) The SBA PCR (or, if a PCR is not assigned, see 19.402(a)) may appeal the contracting officer's rejection to the head of the contracting activity within 2 working days after receiving the notice (except see 19.130…
  • FAR 19.1305 HUBZone set-aside procedures.
    … procedures at 19.202-1 and at 19.402 apply to this section. (1) When the SBA intends to appeal a contracting officer's decision to reject a recommendation of the SBA procurement center representative (or, if a procurement center represent…
  • FAR 19.1405 Set-aside procedures.
    …implified acquisition threshold, at 19.402 apply to this section. When the SBA intends to appeal a contracting officer's decision to reject a recommendation of the SBA procurement center representative (or, if a procurement center represent…
  • FAR 19.1505 Set-aside procedures.
    …CR as soon as practicable; (2) SBA shall notify the contracting officer of its intent to appeal the contracting officer's decision no later than five business days after receiving notice of the contracting officer's decision; (3) The cont…
  • FAR 32.607-2 Deferment of collection.
    …ction must be submitted in writing to the contracting officer. (1) If the contractor has appealed the debt under the procedures of the Disputes clause of the contract, the information with the request for deferment may be limited to an exp…
  • FAR 33.211 Contracting officer's decision.
    …ubstantially as follows: “This is the final decision of the Contracting Officer. You may appeal this decision to the agency board of contract appeals. If you decide to appeal, you must, within 90 days from the date you receive this decisio…
  • FAR 44.203 Consent limitations.
    …ntract merely because it contains a clause giving the subcontractor the right of indirect appeal to an agency board of contract appeals if the subcontractor is affected by a dispute between the Government and the prime contractor. Indirect …
  • FAR 49.109-7 Settlement by determination.
    …e the contractor that the determination is a final decision from which the contractor may appeal under the Disputes clause, except as shown in paragraph (f) below. The determination shall specify the amount due the contractor and will be su…
  • FAR 49.112-2 Final payment.
    … Settlement by determination. If the settlement is by determination and— (1) There is no appeal within the allowed time, the contractor shall submit a voucher or invoice showing the amount determined due, less any portion previously paid; …
  • FAR 52.209-5 Certification Regarding Responsibility Matters.
    …al challenge to the liability, the liability is not finally determined until all judicial appeal rights have been exhausted. (ii) The taxpayer is delinquent in making payment. A taxpayer is delinquent if the taxpayer has failed to pay the …
  • FAR 52.212-3 Offeror Representations and Certifications—Commercial Products and Commercial Services.
    …al challenge to the liability, the liability is not finally determined until all judicial appeal rights have been exhausted. (B) The taxpayer is delinquent in making payment. A taxpayer is delinquent if the taxpayer has failed to pay the t…
  • FAR 52.249-3 Termination for Convenience of the Government (Dismantling, Demolition, or Removal of Improvements).
    …, agreed to, or determined under this clause. (j) The Contractor shall have the right of appeal, under the Disputes clause, from any determination made by the Contracting Officer under paragraph (e), (g), or (l) of this clause, except that…
  • FAR 52.249-6 Termination (Cost-Reimbursement).
    …, agreed to, or determined under this clause. (j) The Contractor shall have the right of appeal, under the Disputes clause, from any determination made by the Contracting Officer under paragraph (f), (h), or (l) of this clause, except that…
  • DFARS 252.227-7019 Validation of Asserted Restrictions—Computer Software.
    …se. Only a Contracting Officer's final decision or actions of an agency Board of Contract Appeals or a court of competent jurisdiction that sustain the validity of an asserted restriction constitute validation of the restriction. (f) Chall…
  • DFARS 252.227-7037 Validation of Asserted Restrictions on Technical Data.
    …ion under paragraph (g)(2)(i) of this clause. If the Contractor or subcontractor fails to appeal, file suit, or provide a notice of intent to file suit to the Contracting Officer within the 90-day period, the Government may cancel or ignore…
  • FAR 19.402 Small Business Administration procurement center representatives.
    …cerns for inclusion on a list of concerns to be solicited in a specific acquisition. (4) Appealing to the chief of the contracting office any contracting officer's determination not to solicit a concern recommended by the SBA for a particu…
  • FAR 19.602-3 Resolving differences between the agency and the Small Business Administration.
    …(with a copy to the contracting officer) that the case file has been received and that an appeal decision may be requested by an authorized official. (3) If the contracting agency decides to file an appeal, it must notify SBA Headquarters …
  • FAR 52.215-2 Audit and Records—Negotiation.
    … termination settlement; and (2) The Contractor shall make available records relating to appeals under the Disputes clause or to litigation or the settlement of claims arising under or relating to this contract until such appeals, litigati…
  • DFARS 222.302 Liquidated damages and overtime pay.
    …ssment. The written notification shall also inform the contractor of its 60 days right to appeal the assessment, through the contracting officer, to the agency official responsible for acting on such appeals; and (3) If funds available for…
  • DFARS 222.406-8 Investigations.
    …tion shall inform the contractor that— (1) It has 60 days after receipt of the notice to appeal the assessment of liquidated damages; and (2) The appeal must demonstrate either that the alleged violations did not occur at all, occurred in…
  • FAR 8.406-6 Disputes.
    … Disputes clause of the contract and notify the schedule contractor of the referral. (c) Appeals. Contractors may appeal final decisions to either the Board of Contract Appeals servicing the agency that issued the final decision or the U.S…
  • FAR 19.804-3 SBA acceptance.
    …ation for the requirement, SBA may refuse to accept the requirement for the 8(a) program, appeal the contracting officer's determination to the head of the agency pursuant to 19.810, or appeal the NAICS code designation to the SBA Office of…
  • FAR 31.205-47 Costs related to legal and other proceedings.
    …urred in connection with the following— (1) Defense against Federal Government claims or appeals or the prosecution of claims or appeals against the Federal Government (see 2.101). (2) Organization, reorganization, (including mergers and …
  • FAR 42.709-4 Assessing the penalty.
    …pproved (see 48 CFR 242.705-2), or any similar notice which the contractor elected not to appeal and was not withdrawn by the cognizant Government agency; (2) A contracting officer final decision which was not appealed; (3) A prior execut…
  • FAR 49.402-3 Procedure for default.
    …notice of termination constitutes such decision, and that the contractor has the right to appeal such decision under the Disputes clause; (6) That the Government reserves all rights and remedies provided by law or under the contract, in ad…
  • FAR 52.233-1 Disputes.
    …ill be made. (f) The Contracting Officer's decision shall be final unless the Contractor appeals or files a suit as provided in 41 U.S.C. chapter 71. (g) If the claim by the Contractor is submitted to the Contracting Officer or a claim by…
  • DFARS 237.7204 Format and clauses for educational service agreements.
    … (ii) Notify the student and the Contracting Officer of the determination. If there is an appeal of the determination; (iii) If there is an appeal of the determination, process the appeal under the Contractor's standard procedures; (iv) N…
  • FAR 3.905-2 Enforcement of orders.
    …'s conformance with 41 U.S.C. 4712 and its implementing regulations, in the U.S. court of appeals for a circuit in which the reprisal is alleged in the order to have occurred. No petition seeking such review may be filed more than 60 days a…
  • FAR 9.101 Definitions.
    …Securities and Exchange Commission Administrative Proceedings, Civilian Board of Contract Appeals Proceedings, and Armed Services Board of Contract Appeals Proceedings). This includes administrative proceedings at the Federal and state leve…
  • FAR 19.602-2 Issuing or denying a Certificate of Competency (COC).
    …ually agreeable to the contracting officer and the SBA). (iv) To permit resolution of an appeal by the contracting agency to SBA Headquarters under 19.602-3. However, there is no contracting officer's appeal when the Area Office proposes t…
  • FAR 22.403-6 Department of Labor regulations involving construction.
    …; and (iii) Copeland (Anti-Kickback) Act; (4) Part 6, relating to rules of practice for appealing the findings of the Administrator, Wage and Hour Division, in enforcement cases under the various labor statutes, and by which Administrativ…

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