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48 CFR · Federal Acquisition Regulation and Defense supplement

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44 sections with “bases”: the first 40

  • FAR 32.1002 Bases for performance-based payments.
    Performance-based payments may be made on any of the following bases: (a) Performance measured by objective, quantifiable methods. (b) Accomplishment of defined events. (c) Other quantifiable measures of results.
  • FAR 49.206-2 Bases for settlement proposals.
    (a) Inventory basis. (1) Use of the inventory basis for settlement proposals is preferred. Under this basis, the contractor may propose only costs allocable to the terminated portion of the contract, and the settlement proposal must itemize…
  • 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 2.101 Definitions.
    …computer program to be produced, created, or compiled. (2) Does not include computer databases or computer software documentation. Computer software documentation means owner's manuals, user's manuals, installation instructions, operating…
  • FAR 47.207-6 Rates and charges.
    …tabulation of transportation or of transportation-related services and their rate (price) bases: (1) Combination of pricing bases. If various types of services with different bases for assessing charges are required under the same contract…
  • 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 52.216-15 Predetermined Indirect Cost Rates.
    …ts under this contract shall be obtained by applying predetermined indirect cost rates to bases agreed upon by the parties, as specified below. (b)(1) The Contractor shall submit an adequate final indirect cost rate proposal to the Contrac…
  • FAR 52.227-14 Rights in Data—General.
    …computer program to be produced, created, or compiled. (2) Does not include computer databases or computer software documentation. Computer software documentation means owner's manuals, user's manuals, installation instructions, operating…
  • FAR 52.227-20 Rights in Data—SBIR Program.
    …computer program to be produced, created, or compiled. (2) Does not include computer databases or computer software documentation. Computer software documentation means owner's manuals, user's manuals, installation instructions, operating…
  • FAR 15.408 Solicitation provisions and contract clauses.
    …rly, etc.) breakdown of labor hours, rates, and cost by appropriate category, and furnish bases for estimates. C. Indirect Costs. Indicate how you have computed and applied your indirect costs, including cost breakdowns. Show trends and bu…
  • FAR 32.1004 Procedures.
    …ice of $10,000,000, has only one deliverable item-the lot.) (a) Establishing performance bases. (1) The basis for performance-based payments may be either specifically described events (e.g., milestones) or some measurable criterion of per…
  • FAR 42.704 Billing rates.
    …or cognizant Federal agency official). (d) The elements of indirect cost and the base or bases used in computing billing rates shall not be construed as determinative of the indirect costs to be distributed or of the bases of distribution …
  • DFARS 209.403 Definitions.
    …tion of the laws or customs of the foreign countries concerned. (iii) In addition to the bases for debarment in FAR 9.406-2, may consider the following additional bases— (A) The foreign country concerned determines that a contractor has e…
  • DFARS 252.227-7020 Rights in special works.
    …be reproduced, recreated, or recompiled. Computer software does not include computer data bases or computer software documentation. (4) “Computer software documentation” means owner's manuals, user's manuals, installation instructions, ope…
  • FAR 7.105 Contents of written acquisition plans.
    …equired sources of supplies or services (see part 8) and sources identifiable through databases including the Governmentwide database of contracts and other procurement instruments intended for use by multiple agencies available at https://…
  • FAR 10.002 Procedures.
    …ps://www.contractdirectory.gov/contractdirectory/ and other Government and commercial databases that provide information relevant to agency acquisitions. (v) Participating in interactive, on-line communication among industry, acquisition p…
  • FAR 15.407-3 Forward pricing rate agreements.
    …rrent Cost or Pricing Data at 15.406-2.) (b) Contracting officers will use FPRA rates as bases for pricing all contracts, modifications, and other contractual actions to be performed during the period covered by the agreement. Conditions t…
  • FAR 16.104 Factors in selecting contract types.
    …lysis is not sufficient, the cost estimates of the offeror and the Government provide the bases for negotiating contract pricing arrangements. It is essential that the uncertainties involved in performance and their possible impact upon cos…
  • FAR 22.101-2 Contract pricing and administration.
    …ion practices, whether or not included in labor-management agreements, are not acceptable bases for allowing costs in cost-reimbursement contracts or for recognition of costs in pricing fixed-price contracts if they result in unreasonable c…
  • FAR 22.1009-2 Attempt to identify possible places of performance.
    …es of performance: (a) Locations of previous contractors and their competitors. (b) Databases available via the Internet for lists of prospective offerors and contractors. (c) Responses to a presolicitation notice (see 5.204).
  • FAR 25.302-5 Remedies.
    …e contractor's failure to comply with the requirements of this section in appropriate databases of past performance and consider any such failure in any responsibility determination or evaluation of past performance; and (3) In the case of…
  • FAR 27.404-2 Limited rights data and restricted computer software.
    …nt for the documentation accompanying the computer software than for the programs and databases. Any additions to, or limitations on, the restricted rights set forth in the Restricted Rights Notice of paragraph (g)(4) of Alternate III of th…
  • FAR 27.405-3 Commercial computer software.
    …ate. In addition, the contract shall adequately describe the computer programs and/or databases, the media on which it is recorded, and all the necessary documentation. (b) If the contract incorporates, makes reference to, or uses a vendor…
  • FAR 31.203 Indirect costs.
    …precise cost groupings, detailed accounts screening, and carefully developed distribution bases. (i) Indirect costs that meet the definition of “excessive pass-through charge” in 52.215-23, are unallowable.
  • FAR 32.206 Solicitation provisions and contract clauses.
    …ovide for commercial advance and commercial interim payments based upon a wide variety of bases, including (but not limited to) achievement or occurrence of specified events, the passage of time, or specified times prior to the delivery dat…
  • FAR 42.1501 General.
    …cated in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico (see 15 U.S.C. 657r(a)); (6) Reporting into databases (see subpart 4.14, and reporting requirements in the solicitation provisions and clauses referenced in 9.104-7); (7) Integrity and business eth…
  • FAR 47.305-16 Shipping characteristics.
    …elivery f.o.b. origin and/or f.o.b. destination and that offers will be evaluated on both bases. (2) The contracting officer shall insert in solicitations and contracts the clause at 52.247-62, Specific Quantities Unknown, when total requi…
  • FAR 52.214-18 Preparation of Bids—Construction.
    …b) The bid form may require bidders to submit bid prices for one or more items on various bases, including— (1) Lump sum bidding; (2) Alternate prices; (3) Units of construction; or (4) Any combination of subparagraphs (1) through (3) a…
  • FAR 52.214-21 Descriptive Literature.
    …duct under paragraph (f) of this provision. A bidder submitting a bid on one of these two bases may not elect to have its bid considered on the alternative basis after the time specified for receipt of bids. The Government will disregard a …
  • FAR 52.225-26 Contractors Performing Private Security Functions Outside the United States.
    …ailure to comply with the requirements of this clause will be included in appropriate databases of past performance and considered in any responsibility determination or evaluation of past performance; and (3) If this is an award-fee contr…
  • FAR 52.232-28 Invitation To Propose Performance-Based Payments.
    …nce-based payments (see FAR 32.1004 for appropriate criteria for establishing performance bases and performance-based finance payment amounts). (2) A listing of— (i) The projected performance-based payment dates and the projected payment …
  • FAR 52.236-28 Preparation of Proposals—Construction.
    …osal form may require offerors to submit proposed prices for one or more items on various bases, including— (1) Lump sum price; (2) Alternate prices; (3) Units of construction; or (4) Any combination of paragraphs (b)(1) through (b)(3) …
  • FAR 52.239-1 Privacy or Security Safeguards.
    …ities, installations, technical capabilities, operations, documentation, records, and databases. (c) If new or unanticipated threats or hazards are discovered by either the Government or the Contractor, or if existing safeguards have cease…
  • DFARS 204.7401 Definitions.
    …be reproduced, recreated, or recompiled. Computer software does not include computer data bases or computer software documentation. Litigation information means any information, including sensitive information, that is furnished to the con…
  • DFARS 213.301 Governmentwide commercial purchase card.
    …ny other place subject to the jurisdiction of the United States (but not including leased bases). (2) An individual appointed in accordance with 201.603-3(a) also may use the Governmentwide commercial purchase card to make a purchase that …
  • 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 227.671 General.
    …or service, capital stock transactions, or any combination of these. The primary source's bases for computing such consideration may include actual costs; charges for the use of patents, data, or know-how reflecting the primary source's inv…
  • DFARS 227.7106 Contracts for special works.
    …in Special Works clause include, but are not limited, to audiovisual works, computer data bases, computer software documentation, scripts, soundtracks, musical compositions, and adaptations; histories of departments, agencies, services or u…
  • DFARS 252.204-7014 Limitations on the Use or Disclosure of Information by Litigation Support Contractors.
    …be reproduced, recreated, or recompiled. Computer software does not include computer data bases or computer software documentation. Litigation information means any information, including sensitive information, that is furnished to the con…
  • DFARS 252.204-7015 Notice of Authorized Disclosure of Information for Litigation Support.
    …be reproduced, recreated, or recompiled. Computer software does not include computer data bases or computer software documentation. Litigation support means administrative, technical, or professional services provided in support of the Gov…

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.