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48 CFR · Federal Acquisition Regulation and Defense supplement

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31 sections with “bids or proposals”

  • FAR 3.303 Reporting suspected antitrust violations.
    …s are required by 41 U.S.C. 3707 and 10 U.S.C. 3307 to report to the Attorney General any bids or proposals that evidence a violation of the antitrust laws. These reports are in addition to those required by subpart 9.4. (b) The antitrust …
  • FAR 6.401 Sealed bidding and competitive proposals.
    …es for use under subparts 6.1, 6.2; and, when appropriate, under subpart 6.3. (a) Sealed bids. (See part 14 for procedures.) Contracting officers shall solicit sealed bids if— (1) Time permits the solicitation, submission, and evaluation …
  • FAR 52.214-23 Late submissions, modifications, revisions, and withdrawals of technical proposals under two-step sealed bidding.
    …gnated in the request for technical proposals by the time specified in the invitation for bids (IFB). If no time is specified in the IFB, the time for receipt is 4:30 p.m., local time, for the designated Government office on the date that b…
  • FAR 52.222-49 Service Contract Labor Standards—Place of Performance Unknown.
    …for which a wage determination has not been attached or requested may nevertheless submit bids or proposals. However, a wage determination shall be requested and incorporated in the resultant contract retroactive to the date of contract awa…
  • FAR 52.236-22 Design Within Funding Limitations.
    …xceed the estimated construction contract price as set forth in paragraph (c) below. When bids or proposals for the construction contract are received that exceed the estimated price, the contractor shall perform such redesign and other ser…
  • DFARS 247.270-3 Evaluation of bids and proposals.
    As a minimum, require that offers include— (a) Tonnage or commodity rates that apply to the bulk of the cargo worked under normal conditions; (b) Labor-hour rates that apply to services not covered by commodity rates, or to work performed…
  • DFARS 252.217-7004 Job orders and compensation.
    …lause: Job Orders and Compensation (MAY 2006) (a) The Contracting Officer shall solicit bids or proposals and make award of job orders. The issuance of a job order signed by the Contracting Officer constitutes award. The job order shall i…
  • FAR 2.101 Definitions.
    …d, would bind the offeror to perform the resultant contract. Responses to invitations for bids (sealed bidding) are offers called “bids” or “sealed bids”; responses to requests for proposals (negotiation) are offers called “proposals”; howe…
  • FAR 14.201-6 Solicitation provisions.
    (a) The provisions prescribed in this subsection apply to preparation and submission of bids in general. See other FAR parts for provisions and clauses related to specific acquisition requirements. (b) Insert in all invitations for bids th…
  • FAR 32.502-3 Solicitation provisions.
    … shall insert the provision at 52.232-13, Notice of Progress Payments, in invitations for bids and requests for proposals that include a Progress Payments clause. (b)(1) Under the authority of the statutes cited in 32.101, an invitation fo…
  • FAR 3.104-1 Definitions.
    …rk for the procurement. (ii) Preparing or developing the solicitation. (iii) Evaluating bids or proposals, or selecting a source. (iv) Negotiating price or terms and conditions of the contract. (v) Reviewing and approving the award of t…
  • FAR 5.203 Publicizing and response time.
    …vices (see 5.203(b)), agencies shall allow at least a 30-day response time for receipt of bids or proposals from the date of issuance of a solicitation, if the proposed contract action is expected to exceed the simplified acquisition thresh…
  • FAR 6.302-1 Only one responsible source and no other supplies or services will satisfy agency requirements.
    …ded using this authority, the notices required by 5.201 shall have been published and any bids, proposals, quotations, or capability statements must have been considered.
  • FAR 9.405 Effect of listing.
    …e excluded from acting as individual sureties (see part 28). (e)(1) After the opening of bids or receipt of proposals or quotes, the contracting officer shall review the exclusion records in SAM. (2) Bids received from any listed contract…
  • FAR 22.404-4 Solicitations issued without wage determinations for the primary site of the work.
    … the contract will be issued as an amendment to the solicitation. (b) In sealed bidding, bids may not be opened until a reasonable time after the wage determination for the primary site of the work has been furnished to all bidders. (c) I…
  • FAR 52.212-1 Instructions to Offerors—Commercial Products and Commercial Services.
    …rson signs a receipt for the offer. (g) Contract award (not applicable to Invitation for Bids). The Government intends to evaluate offers and award a contract without discussions with offerors. Therefore, the offeror's initial offer should…
  • FAR 6.102 Use of competitive procedures.
    …e in fulfilling the requirement for full and open competition are as follows: (a) Sealed bids. (See 6.401(a).) (b) Competitive proposals. (See 6.401(b).) If sealed bids are not appropriate under paragraph (a) of this section, contracting …
  • FAR 6.302-2 Unusual and compelling urgency.
    …ured unless the agency is permitted to limit the number of sources from which it solicits bids or proposals, full and open competition need not be provided for. (b) Application. This authority applies in those situations where— (1) An unu…
  • FAR 6.302-6 National security.
    …rity unless the agency is permitted to limit the number of sources from which it solicits bids or proposals. (b) Application. This authority may be used for any acquisition when disclosure of the Government's needs would compromise the nat…
  • FAR 11.401 General.
    …, except when clearly unnecessary, inform bidders or offerors of the basis on which their bids or proposals will be evaluated with respect to time of delivery or performance. (c) If timely delivery or performance is unusually important to …
  • FAR 14.501 General.
    … responsibility as defined in 9.1. (b) Step two involves the submission of sealed priced bids by those who submitted acceptable technical proposals in step one. Bids submitted in step two are evaluated and the awards made in accordance wit…
  • FAR 22.404-5 Expiration of project wage determinations.
    … the solicitation to incorporate the new determination, and permit bidders to amend their bids. If the new determination does not change the wage rates and would not warrant amended bids, the contracting officer shall amend the solicitation…
  • FAR 52.204-8 Annual Representations and Certifications.
    …52.214-14, Place of Performance—Sealed Bidding. This provision applies to invitations for bids except those in which the place of performance is specified by the Government. (xi) 52.215-6, Place of Performance. This provision applies to so…
  • FAR 52.214-25 Step Two of Two-Step Sealed Bidding.
    …owing provision: Step Two of Two-Step Sealed Bidding (APR 1985) (a) This invitation for bids is issued to initiate step two of two-step sealed bidding under subpart 14.5 of the Federal Acquisition Regulation. (b) The only bids that the C…
  • FAR 14.503-1 Step one.
    …al must be received (see 14.201-6(r)). (7) A statement that (i) in the second step, only bids based upon technical proposals determined to be acceptable, either initially or as a result of discussions, will be considered for awards and (ii…
  • FAR 14.503-2 Step two.
    (a) Sealed bidding procedures shall be followed except that invitations for bids shall— (1) Be issued only to those offerors submitting acceptable technical proposals in step one; (2) Include the provision prescribed in 14.201-6(t); (3) …
  • FAR 31.205-18 Independent research and development and bid and proposal costs.
    …nd proposal (B&P) costs means the costs incurred in preparing, submitting, and supporting bids and proposals (whether or not solicited) on potential Government or non-Government contracts. The term does not include the costs of effort spons…
  • FAR 52.204-22 Alternative Line Item Proposal.
    …g payments. Therefore, the Offeror is invited to propose alternative line items for which bids, proposals, or quotes are requested in this solicitation to ensure that the resulting contract is economically and administratively advantageous …
  • FAR 52.207-4 Economic Purchase Quantity—Supplies.
    …fferors are invited to state an opinion on whether the quantity(ies) of supplies on which bids, proposals or quotes are requested in this solicitation is (are) economically advantageous to the Government. (b) Each offeror who believes that…
  • FAR 52.219-9 Small Business Subcontracting Plan.
    …men-owned small business concerns by arranging solicitations, time for the preparation of bids, quantities, specifications, and delivery schedules so as to facilitate the participation by such concerns. Where the Contractor's lists of poten…
  • FAR 52.232-13 Notice of Progress Payments.
    As prescribed in 32.502-3(a), insert the following provision in invitations for bids and requests for proposals that include a Progress Payments clause: Notice of Progress Payments (APR 1984) The need for customary progress payments confo…

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