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48 CFR · Federal Acquisition Regulation and Defense supplement

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256 sections with “award document”: the first 40

  • FAR 13.106-3 Award and documentation.
    (a) Basis for award. Before making award, the contracting officer must determine that the proposed price is fair and reasonable. (1) Whenever possible, base price reasonableness on competitive quotations or offers. (2) If only one respons…
  • FAR 15.504 Award to successful offeror.
    The contracting officer shall award a contract to the successful offeror by furnishing the executed contract or other notice of the award to that offeror. (a) If the award document includes information that is different than the latest sig…
  • FAR 9.104-6 Federal Awardee Performance and Integrity Information System.
    (a)(1) Before awarding a contract in excess of the simplified acquisition threshold, the contracting officer shall review the performance and integrity information available in the Federal Awardee Performance and Integrity Information Syste…
  • FAR 14.408-7 Documentation of award.
    … list all lower bids with reasons for their rejection in sufficient detail to justify the award. (c) When an award is made after receipt of equal low bids, the documentation shall describe how the tie was broken.
  • FAR 15.505 Preaward debriefing of offerors.
    …ors excluded from the competitive range or otherwise excluded from the competition before award may request a debriefing before award (10 U.S.C. 3305 and 41 U.S.C. 3705). (a)(1) The offeror may request a preaward debriefing by submitting a…
  • FAR 19.705-6 Postaward responsibilities of the contracting officer.
    After a contract or contract modification containing a subcontracting plan is awarded or an existing subcontracting plan is amended, the contracting officer shall do the following: (a) Notify the SBA of the award by sending a copy of the a…
  • FAR 52.204-13 System for Award Management Maintenance.
    As prescribed in 4.1105(b), use the following clause: System for Award Management Maintenance (OCT 2018) (a) Definitions. As used in this clause— Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT) indicator means a four-character suffix to the unique entit…
  • FAR 52.219-28 Postaward Small Business Program Rerepresentation.
    As prescribed in 19.309(c)(1), insert the following clause: Postaward Small Business Program Rerepresentation (JAN 2025) (a) Definitions. As used in this clause— Long-term contract means a contract of more than five years in duration, in…
  • DFARS 215.506 Postaward debriefing of offerors.
    …successful or unsuccessful offeror, a written or oral debriefing is required for contract awards valued at $15 million or more (section 818 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2018 (Pub. L. 115-91)). (c) [Reserved] (…
  • DFARS 227.7203-10 Contractor identification and marking of computer software or computer software documentation to be furnished with restrictive markings.
    …se, Release, or Disclosure Restrictions, requires offerors to identify, prior to contract award, any computer software or computer software documentation that an offeror asserts should be provided to the Government with restrictions on use,…
  • DFARS 252.215-7016 Notification to Offerors—Postaward Debriefings.
    As prescribed in 215.570, use the following provision: Notification to Offerors—Postaward Debriefings (OCT 2025) (a) Definition. As used in this provision— Nontraditional defense contractor means an entity that is not currently performin…
  • DFARS 252.227-7041 Additional postaward requirements for Small Business Technology Transfer Program.
    As prescribed in 227.7104-4(c)(2), use the following clause: Additional Postaward Requirements for Small Business Technology Transfer Program (JAN 2025) (a) Definitions. As used in this clause— Research institution means an institution o…
  • FAR 13.501 Special documentation requirements.
    … justifications (excluding brand name) required by 6.305(a) within 14 days after contract award or in the case of unusual and compelling urgency within 30 days after contract award, in accordance with 6.305 procedures at paragraphs (b), (d)…
  • FAR 14.407-3 Other mistakes disclosed before award.
    In order to minimize delays in contract awards, administrative determinations may be made as described in this 14.407-3 in connection with mistakes in bids alleged after opening of bids and before award. The authority to permit correction o…
  • FAR 14.408-1 General.
    (a) The contracting officer shall make a contract award (1) by written or electronic notice, (2) within the time for acceptance specified in the bid or an extension (see 14.404-1(d)), and (3) to that responsible bidder whose bid, conforming…
  • FAR 15.509 Forms.
    Optional Form 307, Contract Award, Standard Form (SF) 26, Award/Contract, or SF 33, Solicitation, Offer and Award, may be used to award negotiated contracts in which the signature of both parties on a single document is appropriate. Note ho…
  • FAR 52.203-12 Limitation on Payments to Influence Certain Federal Transactions.
    … Regulation (FAR) 2.101. Covered Federal action means any of the following actions: (1) Awarding any Federal contract. (2) Making any Federal grant. (3) Making any Federal loan. (4) Entering into any cooperative agreement. (5) Extendi…
  • FAR 9.105-2 Determinations and documentation.
    …ective contractor is responsible with respect to that contract. When an offer on which an award would otherwise be made is rejected because the prospective contractor is found to be nonresponsible, the contracting officer shall make, sign, …
  • FAR 13.106 Soliciting competition, evaluation of quotations or offers, award and documentation.
  • FAR 19.506 Documentation requirements.
    … with 19.502-2. (2) The contracting officer shall document the rationale when a multiple-award contract is not partially set aside, not reserved, and does not allow for setting aside of orders, when these authorities could have been used. …
  • FAR 19.705-5 Awards involving subcontracting plans.
    (a) In making an award that requires a subcontracting plan, the contracting officer shall be responsible for the following: (1) Consider the contractor's compliance with the subcontracting plans submitted on previous contracts as a factor …
  • FAR 52.234-2 Notice of Earned Value Management System—Preaward Integrated Baseline Review.
    …ed in 34.203(a) use the following provision: Notice of Earned Value Management System—Preaward Integrated Baseline Review (NOV 2016) (a) The offeror shall provide documentation that the Cognizant Federal Agency has determined that the pro…
  • FAR 2.101 Definitions.
    …scription of requirements to satisfy agency needs, solicitation and selection of sources, award of contracts, contract financing, contract performance, contract administration, and those technical and management functions directly related t…
  • FAR 3.104-1 Definitions.
    …e law or regulation. (5) Information marked in accordance with 52.215-1(e). Decision to award a subcontract or modification of subcontract means a decision to designate award to a particular source. Federal agency procurement means the a…
  • FAR 3.104-7 Violations or possible violations.
    …t determine if the reported violation or possible violation has any impact on the pending award or selection of the contractor. (1) If the contracting officer concludes that there is no impact on the procurement, the contracting officer mu…
  • FAR 3.803 Exceptions.
    … presentations prior to formal solicitation of any covered Federal action when seeking an award from an agency pursuant to the provisions of the Small Business Act, as amended by Pub. L. 95-507, and subsequent amendments. (2) Professional …
  • FAR 4.803 Contents of contract files.
    …nnotated. (11) Contractor's representations and certifications (see 4.1201(c)). (12) Preaward survey reports or reference to previous preaward survey reports relied upon. (13) Source selection documentation. (14) Contracting officer's d…
  • FAR 4.1102 Policy.
    …ompromise the safeguarding of classified information or national security; (3) Contracts awarded by— (i) Deployed contracting officers in the course of military operations, including, but not limited to, contingency operations as defined …
  • FAR 4.2304 Procedures.
    …ty instructs the contracting officer otherwise, FASCSA orders apply as follows: contracts awarded by civilian agencies will be subject to DHS FASCSA orders, and contracts awarded by the Department of Defense will be subject to DoD FASCSA or…
  • FAR 6.302-2 Unusual and compelling urgency.
    … An unusual and compelling urgency precludes full and open competition; and (2) Delay in award of a contract would result in serious injury, financial or other, to the Government. (c) Limitations. (1) Contracts awarded using this authorit…
  • FAR 6.303-1 Requirements.
    …contract, commence negotiations for a contract resulting from an unsolicited proposal, or award any other contract without providing for full and open competition unless the contracting officer— (1) Justifies, if required in 6.302, the use…
  • FAR 7.105 Contents of written acquisition plans.
    …tion objectives (see subpart 15.3). When an EVMS is required (see FAR 34.202(a)) and a preaward IBR is contemplated, the acquisition plan must discuss— (i) How the pre-award IBR will be considered in the source selection decision; (ii) Ho…
  • FAR 8.405-2 Ordering procedures for services requiring a statement of work.
    …rd all schedule contractors offering the required services under the appropriate multiple-award schedule(s) an opportunity to submit a quote; or (B) Provide the RFQ to as many schedule contractors as practicable, consistent with market res…
  • FAR 8.405-3 Blanket purchase agreements (BPAs).
    …fficer shall, to the maximum extent practicable, give preference to establishing multiple-award BPAs, rather than establishing a single-award BPA. (ii) No single-award BPA with an estimated value exceeding $150 million (including any optio…
  • FAR 11.403 Supplies or services.
    …lendar dates; (2) Specific periods from the date of the contract; i.e., from the date of award or acceptance by the Government, or from the date shown as the effective date of the contract; (3) Specific periods from the date of receipt by…
  • FAR 12.207 Contract type.
    …he acquisition of commercial services when— (i) The service is acquired under a contract awarded using— (A) Competitive procedures (e.g., the procedures in 6.102, the set-aside procedures in Subpart 19.5, or competition conducted in accor…
  • FAR 13.106-1 Soliciting competition.
    … the contracting officer shall notify potential quoters or offerors of the basis on which award will be made (price alone or price and other factors, e.g., past performance and quality). (ii) Contracting officers are encouraged to use best…
  • FAR 14.201-1 Uniform contract format.
    … not apply, the contracting officer should so mark that section in the solicitation. Upon award, the contracting officer shall not physically include Part IV in the resulting contract, but shall retain it in the contract file. (See 4.1201(c…
  • FAR 14.201-9 Simplified contract format.
    …y other information/instructions necessary to guide offerors. (3) Evaluation factors for award. Insert all evaluation factors and any significant subfactors for award. (4) Upon award, the contracting officer need not physically include th…
  • FAR 15.208 Submission, modification, revision, and withdrawal of proposals.
    …or receipt of proposals is “late” and will not be considered unless it is received before award is made, the contracting officer determines that accepting the late proposal would not unduly delay the acquisition; and— (i) If it was transmi…

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