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48 CFR · Federal Acquisition Regulation and Defense supplement

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89 sections with “base level”: the first 40

  • FAR 16.203-2 Application.
    …ontract price can be identified and covered separately in the contract. Price adjustments based on established prices should normally be restricted to industry-wide contingencies. Price adjustments based on labor and material costs should b…
  • 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 7.105 Contents of written acquisition plans.
    …for service contracts or orders must describe the strategies for implementing performance-based acquisition methods or must provide rationale for not using those methods (see subpart 37.6). (a) Acquisition background and objectives—(1) Sta…
  • FAR 15.403-1 Prohibition on obtaining certified cost or pricing data (10 U.S.C. chapter 271 and 41 U.S.C. chapter 35).
    …r cost realism)— (1) When the contracting officer determines that prices agreed upon are based on adequate price competition (see standards in paragraph (c)(1) of this subsection); (2) When the contracting officer determines that prices a…
  • FAR 16.203-1 Description.
    …ed contingencies. Economic price adjustments are of three general types: (1) Adjustments based on established prices. These price adjustments are based on increases or decreases from an agreed-upon level in published or otherwise establish…
  • 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 32.1004 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 52.216-7 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…
  • 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 252.204-7021 Contractor Compliance With the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification Level Requirements.
    …CFR 170.4); and (ii) Not older than 180 days for Conditional Level 3 (Defense Industrial Base Cybersecurity Assessment Center (DIBCAC)) assessments, with— (A) No changes in compliance with the requirements at 32 CFR part 170 since the Con…
  • DFARS 252.225-7040 Contractor Personnel Supporting U.S. Armed Forces Deployed Outside the United States.
    …E/index.html; (v) To any command of any supported military element or the command of any base. (7) Personnel seeking whistleblower protection from reprisals for reporting criminal acts shall seek guidance through the DoD Inspector General…
  • DFARS 252.234-7002 Earned Value Management System.
    …ior to the effective date of implementation. (f) The Government will schedule integrated baseline reviews as early as practicable, and the review process will be conducted not later than 180 calendar days after— (1) Contract award; (2) T…
  • DFARS 252.246-7007 Contractor Counterfeit Electronic Part Detection and Avoidance System.
    …tract with, or with the express written authority of, the original component manufacturer based on the original component manufacturer's designs, formulas, and/or specifications. Authorized supplier means a supplier, distributor, or an aft…
  • 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 15.404-1 Proposal analysis techniques.
    … appropriate, to reflect any additions or reductions in cost elements to realistic levels based on the results of the cost realism analysis. (3) Cost realism analyses may also be used on competitive fixed-price incentive contracts or, in e…
  • 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 52.228-4 Workers' Compensation and War-Hazard Insurance Overseas.
    …Secretary of Labor, would be subject to workers' compensation insurance under the Defense Base Act (42 U.S.C. 1651 et seq.). On behalf of employees for whom the applicability of the Defense Base Act has been waived, the Contractor shall (1)…
  • 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 252.227-7013 Rights in Technical Data—Other Than Commercial Products and Commercial Services.
    …d Commercial Services (Aug 2025) (a) Definitions. As used in this clause— Computer data base means a collection of data recorded in a form capable of being processed by a computer. The term does not include computer software. Computer pr…
  • DFARS 252.227-7014 Rights in Other Than Commercial Computer Software and Other Than Commercial Computer Software Documentation.
    … require only minor modification to meet the requirements of this contract. Computer database means a collection of recorded data in a form capable of being processed by a computer. The term does not include computer software. Computer pr…
  • DFARS 252.227-7018 Rights in Other Than Commercial Technical Data and Computer Software—Small Business Innovation Research Program and Small Business Technology Transfer Program.
    … require only minor modification to meet the requirements of this contract. Computer database means a collection of recorded data in a form capable of being processed by a computer. The term does not include computer software. Computer pr…
  • 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 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 23.104 General procedures.
    …uirements of this subpart and the clause at 52.223-23, Sustainable Products and Services, based on the written justification under paragraph (a) of this section, an exception at 23.105, or an exemption at 23.106. (2) The requirement in par…
  • FAR 28.101-4 Noncompliance with bid guarantee requirements.
    … of an initial proposal as unacceptable, if a determination is made to award the contract based on initial proposals without discussion, except in the situations described in paragraph (c) of this subsection when noncompliance shall be waiv…
  • FAR 48.201 Clauses for supply or service contracts.
    …tion of the Contracting Officer for each VECP) that spans the highest planned production, based on planning and programming or production documentation at the time the VECP is accepted;” for “the number of future contract units scheduled fo…
  • FAR 52.212-3 Offeror Representations and Certifications—Commercial Products and Commercial Services.
    …n ownership, common management, and contractual relationships. SBA determines affiliation based on the factors set forth at 13 CFR 121.103. Small disadvantaged business concern, consistent with 13 CFR 124.1001, means a small business conce…
  • DFARS 207.106 Additional requirements for major systems.
    …0 U.S.C. 3208(d)(2) requires that the evaluation of items developed at private expense be based on an analysis of the total value, in terms of innovative design, life-cycle costs, and other pertinent factors, of incorporating such items in …
  • DFARS 215.101-2-70 Limitations and prohibitions.
    …eering and technical assistance services, advanced electronic testing, or other knowledge-based professional services; (ii) Items designated by the requiring activity as personal protective equipment (except see paragraph (b)(1) of this se…
  • DFARS 215.404-1 Proposal analysis techniques.
    …t or more the lowest price the Government has paid within the most recent 12-month period based on reasonably available data; (B) Those line items where a comparison of the item description and the proposal price indicates a potential for …
  • DFARS 216.601 Time-and-materials contracts.
    …proval of determination and findings for time-and-materials or labor-hour contracts. (1) Base period plus any option periods is three years or less. (i) For contracts (including indefinite-delivery contracts) and orders in which the porti…
  • DFARS 235.015-70 Special use allowances for research facilities acquired by educational institutions.
    … and used for Government research during that period. (2) A special use allowance may be based on either total or partial cost of construction or acquisition of the research facility. (i) When based on total cost neither the normal use al…
  • DFARS 252.204-7020 NIST SP 800-171 DoD Assessment Requirements.
    …tor's self-assessment of the contractor's implementation of NIST SP 800-171 that— (1) Is based on the Contractor's review of their system security plan(s) associated with covered contractor information system(s); (2) Is conducted in accor…
  • DFARS 252.242-7004 Material Management and Accounting System.
    …es that costs of purchased and fabricated material charged or allocated to a contract are based on valid time-phased requirements; and (iii) Maintains a consistent, equitable, and unbiased logic for costing of material transactions; and (…
  • DFARS 252.247-7023 Transportation of Supplies by Sea.
    …e of this contract, the Contracting Officer is entitled to equitably adjust the contract, based on the unauthorized use. (i) If the Contractor did not anticipate transporting any supplies by sea at the time of contract award and, therefore…
  • FAR 3.104-1 Definitions.
    …erhead or other rates when applied to the Government portion of the applicable allocation base. Official means— (1) An officer, as defined in 5 U.S.C. 2104; (2) An employee, as defined in 5 U.S.C. 2105; (3) A member of the uniformed ser…
  • FAR 12.207 Contract type.
    …e-delivery contracts (see Subpart 16.5) may be used when— (i) The prices are established based on a firm-fixed-price or fixed-price with economic price adjustment; or (ii) Rates are established for commercial services acquired on a time-a…
  • FAR 15.406-3 Documenting the negotiation.
    …e, and the negotiated position. Where the determination of a fair and reasonable price is based on cost analysis, the summary shall address each major cost element. When determination of a fair and reasonable price is based on price analysi…

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.