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48 CFR · Federal Acquisition Regulation and Defense supplement

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  • FAR 23.107-2 Biobased products.
    … the USDA. The goal of the BioPreferred Program is to increase the purchase and use of biobased products (as defined in 2.101) by agencies. (c) Applicability. (1) This section applies to contract actions involving a biobased product in a U…
  • FAR 32.1007 Administration and payment of performance-based payments.
    (a) Responsibility. The contracting officer responsible for administering performance-based payments (see 42.302(a)(13)) for the contract shall review and approve all performance-based payments for that contract. (b) Approval of financing …
  • FAR 52.232-28 Invitation To Propose Performance-Based Payments.
    …ibed in 32.1005(b)(1), insert the following provision: Invitation To Propose Performance-Based Payments (MAR 2000) (a) The Government invites the offeror to propose terms under which the Government will make performance-based contract fin…
  • FAR 52.232-32 Performance-Based Payments.
    As prescribed in 32.1005, insert the following clause: Performance-Based Payments (APR 2012) (a) Amount of payments and limitations on payments. Subject to such other limitations and conditions as are specified in this contract and this c…
  • DFARS 252.232-7012 Performance-Based Payments—Whole-Contract Basis.
    As prescribed in 232.1005-70(a)(1), use the following clause: PERFORMANCE-BASED PAYMENTS—WHOLE-CONTRACT BASIS (DEC 2022) (a) Performance-based payments shall form the basis for the contract financing payments provided under this contract, …
  • DFARS 252.232-7013 Performance-Based Payments—Deliverable-Item Basis.
    As prescribed in 232.1005-70(a)(2), use the following clause: Performance-Based Payments—Deliverable-Item Basis (DEC 2022) (a) Performance-based payments shall form the basis for the contract financing payments provided under this contrac…
  • FAR 52.216-7 Allowable Cost and Payment.
    … (d) Final indirect cost rates. (1) Final annual indirect cost rates and the appropriate bases shall be established in accordance with subpart 42.7 of the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) in effect for the period covered by the indirec…
  • FAR 2.101 Definitions.
    …chase descriptions, or the solicitation (e.g., balance, facility of use, or pattern). Biobased product means a product determined by the U.S. Department of Agriculture to be a commercial product or industrial product (other than food or fe…
  • FAR 16.203-4 Contract clauses.
    (a) Adjustment based on established prices—standard supplies. (1) The contracting officer shall, when contracting by negotiation, insert the clause at 52.216-2, Economic Price Adjustment—Standard Supplies, or an agency-prescribed clause as …
  • FAR 30.604 Processing changes to disclosed or established cost accounting practices.
    … contractor that the request shall include supporting rationale and— (A) For any request based on the criteria in 30.603-2(b)(3)(ii), the data necessary to demonstrate the required cost savings; or (B) For any request other than those bas…
  • FAR 31.205-6 Compensation for personal services.
    … on individual compensation elements apply when prescribed. (3) The compensation must be based upon and conform to the terms and conditions of the contractor's established compensation plan or practice followed so consistently as to imply,…
  • FAR 32.504 Subcontracts under prime contracts providing progress payments.
    (a) Subcontracts may include either performance-based payments, provided they meet the criteria in 32.1003, or progress payments, provided they meet the criteria in subpart 32.5 for customary progress payments, but not both. Subcontracts fo…
  • FAR 32.904 Determining payment due dates.
    …f actual acceptance occurs within the constructive acceptance period, the Government must base the determination of an interest penalty on the actual date of acceptance; (3) The constructive acceptance requirement does not compel Governmen…
  • FAR 32.1004 Procedures.
    Performance-based payments may be made either on a whole contract or on a deliverable item basis, unless otherwise prescribed by agency regulations. Financing payments to be made on a whole contract basis are applicable to the entire contra…
  • FAR 42.705-3 Educational institutions.
    …ed, the agency should consider both the stability of the institution's indirect costs and bases over a period of years and any anticipated changes in the amount of the direct and indirect costs. (3) Unless their use is approved at a level …
  • FAR 52.215-21 Requirements for Certified Cost or Pricing Data and Data Other Than Certified Cost or Pricing Data—Modifications.
    …eption from certified cost or pricing data requirements because the price agreed upon was based on adequate price competition or prices set by law or regulation, or was a contract or subcontract for the acquisition of a commercial product o…
  • FAR 52.219-9 Small Business Subcontracting Plan.
    …ectronic Subcontracting Reporting System (eSRS) means the Governmentwide, electronic, web-based system for small business subcontracting program reporting. The eSRS is located at http://www.esrs.gov. Indian tribe means any Indian tribe, ba…
  • FAR 52.230-6 Administration of Cost Accounting Standards.
    …acts and subcontracts described at FAR 16.202, 16.203, (except when price adjustments are based on actual costs of labor or material, described at 16.203-1(a)(2)), and 16.207; (2) Fixed-price incentive contracts and subcontracts where the …
  • FAR 52.250-3 SAFETY Act Block Designation/Certification.
    … case of a domestic United States air carrier or a United States-flag vessel (or a vessel based principally in the United States on which United States income tax is paid and whose insurance coverage is subject to regulation in the United S…
  • FAR 52.250-4 SAFETY Act Pre-qualification Designation Notice.
    … case of a domestic United States air carrier or a United States-flag vessel (or a vessel based principally in the United States on which United States income tax is paid and whose insurance coverage is subject to regulation in the United S…
  • DFARS 215.404-71-3 Contract type risk and working capital adjustment.
    …act action, (excluding facilities capital cost of money) into the Block 24a column titled Base. (ii) Insert the amount of Government estimated cost to complete (excluding facilities capital cost of money) into the Block 24b column titled B…
  • DFARS 215.404-71-4 Facilities capital employed.
    …). The procedure is similar to applying overhead rates to appropriate overhead allocation bases to determine contract overhead costs. (ii) Is designed to record and compute the contract facilities capital cost of money and capital employed…
  • DFARS 232.1004 Procedures.
    (b) Establishing performance-based finance payment amounts. (i) The contracting officer should include in a solicitation both the progress payments and performance-based payments provisions and clauses prescribed in this part, when consider…
  • DFARS 252.216-7001 Economic Price Adjustment-Nonstandard Steel Items.
    … Adjustment—Nonstandard Steel Items (JAN 2023) (a) Definitions. As used in this clause— Base labor index means the average of the labor indices for the three months which consist of the month of bid opening (or offer submission) and the m…
  • DFARS 252.242-7005 Contractor business systems.
    …ing Officer will withhold 5 percent of amounts due from progress payments and performance-based payments, and direct the Contractor, in writing, to withhold 5 percent from its billings on interim cost vouchers on cost-reimbursement, labor-h…
  • FAR 8.405-2 Ordering procedures for services requiring a statement of work.
    …l knowledge). To the maximum extent practicable, agency requirements shall be performance-based statements (see subpart 37.6). (c) Request for Quotation procedures. The ordering activity must provide the request for quotation (RFQ), which …
  • FAR 13.106-3 Award and documentation.
    …er 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 response is received, include a statement of price reasonableness in t…
  • FAR 15.404-4 Profit.
    …he profit or fee portion of the Government prenegotiation objective in price negotiations based on cost analysis. (1) Profit or fee prenegotiation objectives do not necessarily represent net income to contractors. Rather, they represent th…
  • FAR 15.407-1 Defective certified cost or pricing data.
    …haracter of the data to the attention of the contracting officer; (iii) The contract was based on an agreement about the total cost of the contract and there was no agreement about the cost of each item procured under such contract; or (i…
  • FAR 16.305 Cost-plus-award-fee contracts.
    …fee contract is a cost-reimbursement contract that provides for a fee consisting of (a) a base amount (which may be zero) fixed at inception of the contract and (b) an award amount, based upon a judgmental evaluation by the Government, suff…
  • FAR 52.232-16 Progress Payments.
    …shall repay the Government an amount equal to the unliquidated progress payments that are based on costs allocable to property that is lost (see 45.101). (f) Control of costs and property. The Contractor shall maintain an accounting system…
  • FAR 52.232-27 Prompt Payment for Construction Contracts.
    …contract, as follows: (i) Progress payments, if provided for elsewhere in this contract, based on Contracting Officer approval of the estimated amount and value of work or services performed, including payments for reaching milestones in a…
  • FAR 52.236-16 Quantity Surveys.
    …n a fixed-price construction contract providing for unit pricing of items and for payment based on quantity surveys is contemplated: Quantity Surveys (APR 1984) (a) Quantity surveys shall be conducted, and the data derived from these surv…
  • DFARS 242.7000 Contractor business system deficiencies.
    …thholding under 252.242-7005 does not exceed 10 percent of progress payments, performance-based payments, and interim payments under cost-reimbursement, labor-hour, and time-and-materials contracts billed under each of the identified covere…
  • DFARS 252.236-7007 Additive or deductive items.
    …herwise eligible for award; and (ii) Offers the lowest aggregate amount for the first or base bid item, plus or minus (in the order stated in the list of priorities in the bid schedule) those additive or deductive items that provide the mo…
  • FAR 8.405-3 Blanket purchase agreements (BPAs).
    … the circumstances for restricting consideration to fewer than three schedule contractors based on one of the reasons at 8.405-6(a). (B) The ordering activity shall establish the BPA with the schedule contractor(s) that can provide the bes…
  • FAR 9.406-2 Causes for debarment.
    …present responsibility of a Government contractor or subcontractor. (b)(1) A contractor, based upon a preponderance of the evidence, for any of the following— (i) Violation of the terms of a Government contract or subcontract so serious a…
  • FAR 15.408 Solicitation provisions and contract clauses.
    …ror that are generally stocked in inventory, provide a separate cost breakdown, if priced based on cost. For interorganizational transfers priced at cost, provide a separate breakdown of cost elements. Analyze the certified cost or pricing …
  • FAR 16.405-2 Cost-plus-award-fee contracts.
    …fee contract is a cost-reimbursement contract that provides for a fee consisting of (1) a base amount fixed at inception of the contract, if applicable and at the discretion of the contracting officer, and (2) an award amount that the contr…
  • FAR 16.505 Ordering.
    … period of performance, and be within the maximum value of the contract. (3) Performance-based acquisition methods must be used to the maximum extent practicable, if the contract or order is for services (see 37.102(a) and subpart 37.6). …

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.