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48 CFR · Federal Acquisition Regulation and Defense supplement

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47 sections with “certified claim”: the first 40

  • 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).
    (a) Certified cost or pricing data shall not be obtained for acquisitions at or below the simplified acquisition threshold. (b) Exceptions to certified cost or pricing data requirements. The contracting officer shall not require certified …
  • FAR 15.407-1 Defective certified cost or pricing data.
    (a) If, before agreement on price, the contracting officer learns that any certified cost or pricing data submitted are inaccurate, incomplete, or noncurrent, the contracting officer shall immediately bring the matter to the attention of th…
  • FAR 2.101 Definitions.
    …cable, that are required to be performed or approved by a person licensed, registered, or certified to provide those services; (2) Professional services of an architectural or engineering nature performed by contract that are associated wi…
  • FAR 15.408 Solicitation provisions and contract clauses.
    …if a cost-plus-incentive-fee contract is contemplated. (b) Price Reduction for Defective Certified Cost or Pricing Data. The contracting officer shall, when contracting by negotiation, insert the clause at 52.215-10, Price Reduction for De…
  • FAR 52.212-3 Offeror Representations and Certifications—Commercial Products and Commercial Services.
    …who are economically disadvantaged in accordance with 13 CFR part 127, and the concern is certified by SBA or an approved third-party certifier in accordance with 13 CFR 127.300. It automatically qualifies as a women-owned small business el…
  • FAR 52.229-2 North Carolina State and Local Sales and Use Tax.
    …me specified in paragraph (d) below, the Contractor shall furnish the Contracting Officer certified statements setting forth the cost of the materials purchased from each vendor and the amount of North Carolina State and local sales and use…
  • FAR 52.233-1 Disputes.
    …g the payment of money exceeding $100,000 is not a claim under 41 U.S.C. chapter 71 until certified. A voucher, invoice, or other routine request for payment that is not in dispute when submitted is not a claim under 41 U.S.C. chapter 71. T…
  • DFARS 252.225-7036 Buy American—Free Trade Agreements—Balance of Payments Program.
    …ce of Payments Program Certificate—Basic provision of the solicitation. If the Contractor certified in its offer that it will deliver a qualifying country end product or a Free Trade Agreement country end product other than a Bahraini end p…
  • FAR 29.304 Matters requiring special consideration.
    …s, fixtures, or equipment by a contractor, the Government must secure from the contractor certified statements setting forth the cost of the property purchased from each vendor and the amount of sales or use taxes paid. In the event the con…
  • FAR 33.208 Interest on claims.
    …found due and unpaid from the date that— (1) The contracting officer receives the claim (certified if required by 33.207(a)); or (2) Payment otherwise would be due, if that date is later, until the date of payment. (b) Simple interest on…
  • FAR 33.211 Contracting officer's decision.
    …t. (b) The contracting officer shall furnish a copy of the decision to the contractor by certified mail, return receipt requested, or by any other method that provides evidence of receipt. This requirement shall apply to decisions on claim…
  • FAR 50.103-4 Facts and evidence.
    …davits. (7) Relevant financial statements, cost analyses, or other such data, preferably certified by a certified public accountant, as necessary to support the request's monetary elements. (8) A list of persons connected with the contrac…
  • FAR 52.214-26 Audit and Records—Sealed Bidding.
    … such items are in written form, in the form of computer data, or in any other form. (b) Certified cost or pricing data. If the Contractor has been required to submit certified cost or pricing data in connection with the pricing of any mod…
  • FAR 52.215-2 Audit and Records—Negotiation.
    …es of the Contractor's plants, or parts of them, engaged in performing the contract. (c) Certified cost or pricing data. If the Contractor has been required to submit certified cost or pricing data in connection with any pricing action rel…
  • FAR 52.219-1 Small Business Program Representations.
    …who are economically disadvantaged in accordance with 13 CFR part 127, and the concern is certified by SBA or an approved third-party certifier in accordance with 13 CFR 127.300. It automatically qualifies as a women-owned small business co…
  • FAR 52.219-8 Utilization of Small Business Concerns.
    …n means a small business concern that meets the requirements described in 13 CFR 126.200, certified by the Small Business Administration (SBA) and designated by SBA as a HUBZone small business concern in the Dynamic Small Business Search (D…
  • FAR 52.219-9 Small Business Subcontracting Plan.
    …mall disadvantaged business concerns (including ANCs and Indian tribes that have not been certified by SBA as small disadvantaged businesses), women-owned small business concerns, and for NASA only, Historically Black Colleges and Universit…
  • FAR 52.232-12 Advance Payments.
    …ayment. Advance payments will be made under this contract (1) upon submission of properly certified invoices or vouchers by the Contractor, and approval by the administering office, ____ [Insert the name of the office designated under agenc…
  • FAR 52.244-2 Subcontracts.
    … The proposed subcontract price. (v) The subcontractor's current, complete, and accurate certified cost or pricing data and Certificate of Current Cost or Pricing Data, if required by other contract provisions. (vi) The subcontractor's Di…
  • DFARS 252.225-7001 Buy American and Balance of Payments Program.
    …—Balance of Payments Program Certificate provision of the solicitation. If the Contractor certified in its offer that it will deliver a qualifying country end product, the Contractor shall deliver a qualifying country end product or, at the…
  • DFARS 215.407-1 Defective certified cost or pricing data.
    (c)(i) When a contractor voluntarily discloses defective pricing after contract award, the contracting officer shall discuss the disclosure with the Defense Contract Audit Agency (DCAA). This discussion will assist in the contracting office…
  • DFARS 252.243-7002 Requests for Equitable Adjustment.
    …agraph (b) of this clause requires full disclosure of all relevant facts, including— (1) Certified cost or pricing data if required in accordance with subsection 15.403-4 of the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR); and (2) Data other tha…
  • FAR 3.705 Procedures.
    …osed action to declare void and rescind the contract shall be made in writing and sent by certified mail, return receipt requested. (2) A thirty calendar day period after receipt of the notice, for the contractor to submit pertinent inform…
  • FAR 42.1204 Applicability of novation agreements.
    …, bill of sale, certificate of merger, contract, deed, agreement, or court decree. (2) A certified copy of each resolution of the corporate parties' boards of directors authorizing the transfer of assets. (3) A certified copy of the minut…
  • FAR 42.1304 Government delay of work.
    …a record of all negotiations leading to any adjustment made under the clause, and related certified cost or pricing data, or data other than certified cost or pricing data.
  • FAR 49.109-7 Settlement by determination.
    …e amount due the contractor, the TCO shall give the contractor at least 15 days notice by certified mail (return receipt requested) to submit written evidence, so as to reach the TCO on or before a stated date, substantiating the amount pre…
  • FAR 52.229-12 Tax on Certain Foreign Procurements.
    …Procurements—Notice and Representation, that it is fully exempt from the withholding, and certified the full exemption on the IRS Form W-14, and if that full exemption no longer applies due to a change in circumstances during the performanc…
  • FAR 52.232-5 Payments Under Fixed-Price Construction Contracts.
    …Name) (Title) (Date) (d) Refund of unearned amounts. If the Contractor, after making a certified request for progress payments, discovers that a portion or all of such request constitutes a payment for performance by the Contractor that …
  • FAR 52.232-27 Prompt Payment for Construction Contracts.
    …icer. Notify the Contracting Officer upon— (i) Reduction of the amount of any subsequent certified application for payment; or (ii) Payment to the subcontractor of any withheld amounts of a progress payment, specifying— (A) The amounts w…
  • DFARS 252.229-7003 Tax Exemptions (Italy).
    …opy of the invoice containing this certification. (ii) The paying office will return the certified copy together with payment to the Contractor. The payment will not include the amount of the IVA tax. (iii) The Contractor shall retain the…
  • FAR 29.204 Federal excise tax on specific foreign contract payments.
    …ffer, exemptions will not be applied to the contract. (3) Any exemption claimed and self-certified on the IRS Form W-14 is subject to audit by the IRS. Any disputes regarding the imposition and collection of the section 5000C tax are adjud…
  • FAR 32.607-2 Deferment of collection.
    …ance overpayment, interest, as prescribed by the applicable Price Reduction for Defective Certified Cost or Pricing Data or CAS clause (see 32.607(c)). (4) Identification of the office to which the contractor is to send debt payments. (5)…
  • FAR 32.805 Procedure.
    …nt, together with one true copy of the instrument of assignment. The true copy shall be a certified duplicate or photostat copy of the original assignment. (c) Format for notice of assignment. The following is a suggested format for use by…
  • FAR 33.207 Contractor certification.
    … thresholds requiring certification are met (see example in 15.403-4(a)(1)(iii) regarding certified cost or pricing data). (e) The certification may be executed by any person authorized to bind the contractor with respect to the claim. (f…
  • FAR 49.304-2 Submission of settlement proposal (fee only).
    …e proposal may be submitted in the form prescribed in 49.602-1 or by letter appropriately certified. The contractor shall substantiate the amount of fee claimed (see 49.305).
  • FAR 49.603-3 Cost-reimbursement contracts—complete termination, if settlement includes cost.
    …he parties under those clauses of the contract relating to price reductions for defective certified cost or pricing data. (End of agreement)
  • FAR 52.216-7 Allowable Cost and Payment.
    …tractors where the procedures have not changed from the previous year's submission). (F) Certified financial statements and other financial data (e.g., trial balance, compilation, review, etc.). (G) Management letter from outside CPAs con…
  • FAR 52.216-10 Incentive Fee.
    … release 75 percent of all fee withholds under this contract after receipt of an adequate certified final indirect cost rate proposal covering the year of physical completion of this contract, provided the Contractor has satisfied all other…
  • FAR 52.229-11 Tax on Certain Foreign Procurements—Notice and Representation.
    …t Payments, available via the internet at www.irs.gov/w14. Any exemption claimed and self-certified on the IRS Form W-14 is subject to audit by the IRS. Any disputes regarding the imposition and collection of the 26 U.S.C. 5000C tax are adj…
  • FAR 52.249-2 Termination for Convenience of the Government (Fixed-Price).
    …eral Acquisition Regulation, the Contractor may submit to the Contracting Officer a list, certified as to quantity and quality, of termination inventory not previously disposed of, excluding items authorized for disposition by the Contracti…

FAR (chapter 1)

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