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48 CFR · Federal Acquisition Regulation and Defense supplement

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  • DFARS 245.105 Contractors' property management system compliance.
    …em that complies with the system criteria in paragraph (c) of the clause at 252.245-7003, Contractor Property Management Administration. Property management system means the contractor's system or systems for managing and controlling Gover…
  • DFARS 252.242-7005 Contractor business systems.
    As prescribed in 242.7001, use the following clause: Contractor Business Systems (Jan 2025) (a) This clause only applies to covered contracts that are subject to the Cost Accounting Standards under 41 U.S.C. chapter 15, as implemented in …
  • DFARS 252.244-7001 Contractor Purchasing System Administration.
    Basic. As prescribed in 244.305-71 and 244.305-71(a), use the following clause: Contractor Purchasing System Administration—Basic (Jan 2025) (a) Definitions. As used in this clause— Acceptable purchasing system means a purchasing system …
  • DFARS 252.245-7003 Contractor Property Management System Administration.
    As prescribed in 245.107(3), insert the following clause: Contractor Property Management System Administration (Jan 2025) (a) Definitions. As used in this clause— Acceptable property management system means a property system that complie…
  • FAR 22.1008-2 Successorship with incumbent contractor collective bargaining agreement.
    …d by the Service Contract Labor Standards statute and, if so, whether the incumbent prime contractor or its subcontractors and any of their employees have a collective bargaining agreement. (b) 41 U.S.C. 6707(c) provides that a successor c…
  • FAR 45.105 Contractors' property management system compliance.
    (a) The agency responsible for contract administration shall conduct an analysis of the contractor's property management policies, procedures, practices, and systems. This analysis shall be accomplished as frequently as conditions warrant, …
  • FAR 52.203-13 Contractor Code of Business Ethics and Conduct.
    As prescribed in 3.1004(a), insert the following clause: Contractor Code of Business Ethics and Conduct (NOV 2021) (a) Definitions. As used in this clause— Agent means any individual, including a director, an officer, an employee, or an …
  • FAR 52.225-26 Contractors Performing Private Security Functions Outside the United States.
    As prescribed in 25.302-6, insert the following clause: Contractors Performing Private Security Functions Outside the United States (OCT 2016) (a) Definitions. As used in this clause— Area of combat operations means an area of operations…
  • FAR 52.227-11 Patent Rights—Ownership by the Contractor.
    … prescribed in 27.303(b)(1), insert the following clause: Patent Rights—Ownership by the Contractor (MAY 2014) (a) As used in this clause— Invention means any invention or discovery that is or may be patentable or otherwise protectable u…
  • DFARS 227.7103-10 Contractor identification and marking of technical data to be furnished with restrictive markings.
    …ss Innovation Research Program and Small Business Technology Transfer Program, permit the contractor to make additional assertions under certain conditions. The additional assertions must be made in accordance with the procedures and in the…
  • DFARS 227.7103-15 Subcontractor rights in technical data.
    (a) 10 U.S.C. 3771 provides subcontractors at all tiers the same protection for their rights in data as is provided to prime contractors. The clauses at 252.227-7013, Rights in Technical Data—Other Than Commercial Products and Commercial Se…
  • DFARS 227.7203-10 Contractor identification and marking of computer software or computer software documentation to be furnished with restrictive markings.
    …ness Innovation Research Program and Small Business Technology Transfer Program, permit a contractor to make additional assertions under certain conditions. If an offeror fails to submit the attachment or fails to complete the attachment in…
  • DFARS 227.7203-15 Subcontractor rights in computer software or computer software documentation.
    (a) Subcontractors and suppliers at all tiers should be provided the same protection for their rights in computer software or computer software documentation as are provided to prime contractors. (b) The clauses at 252.227-7019, Validation…
  • DFARS 252.204-7010 Requirement for Contractor To Notify DoD if the Contractor's Activities are Subject to Reporting Under the U.S.-International Atomic Energy Agency Additional Protocol.
    As prescribed in 204.470-3, use the following clause: Requirement for Contractor To Notify DoD if the Contractor's Activities Are Subject to Reporting Under the U.S.-International Atomic Energy Agency Additional Protocol (JAN 2009) (a) If…
  • DFARS 252.225-7039 Defense Contractors Performing Private Security Functions Outside the United States.
    As prescribed in 225.302-6, insert the following clause: Defense Contractors Performing Private Security Functions Outside the United States (JAN 2023) (a) Definitions. As used in this clause— Full cooperation—(1) Means disclosure to the…
  • DFARS 252.225-7040 Contractor Personnel Supporting U.S. Armed Forces Deployed Outside the United States.
    As prescribed in 225.371-5(a), use the following clause: Contractor Personnel Supporting U.S. Armed Forces Deployed Outside the United States (Aug 2025) (a) Definitions. As used in this clause— Combatant Commander means the commander of …
  • DFARS 252.227-7038 Patent Rights—Ownership by the Contractor (Large Business).
    As prescribed in 227.303(2), use the following clause: Patent Rights—Ownership by the Contractor (Large Business) (JUN 2012) (a) Definitions. As used in this clause—Invention means— (1) Any invention or discovery that is or may be patent…
  • FAR 27.409 Solicitation provisions and contract clauses
    …racts if in accordance with 27.404-3(a), an agency determines to grant permission for the contractor to assert claim to copyright subsisting in all data first produced without further request being made by the contractor. When Alternate IV …
  • DFARS 215.407-5-70 Disclosure, maintenance, and review requirements.
    …otiation of fair and reasonable prices; (iii) Is consistent with and integrated with the contractor's related management systems; and (iv) Is subject to applicable financial control systems. Contractor means a business unit as defined in…
  • DFARS 234.201 Policy.
    … (ii) For cost or incentive contracts and subcontracts valued at $50,000,000 or more, the contractor shall have an earned value management system that has been determined by the cognizant Federal agency to be in compliance with the guidelin…
  • DFARS 242.7203 Review procedures.
    (a) Criteria for conducting reviews. Conduct an MMAS review when— (1) A contractor has $40 million of qualifying sales to the Government during the contractor's preceding fiscal year; and (2) The administrative contracting officer (ACO), …
  • DFARS 242.7502 Policy.
    (a) Contractors receiving cost-reimbursement, incentive type, time-and-materials, or labor-hour contracts, or contracts which provide for progress payments based on costs or on a percentage or stage of completion, shall maintain an accounti…
  • DFARS 244.305-70 Policy.
    … the purchasing system analyst or auditor, shall— (1) Determine the acceptability of the contractor's purchasing system and approve or disapprove the system; and (2) Pursue correction of any deficiencies. (b) In evaluating the acceptabil…
  • DFARS 252.215-7002 Cost Estimating System Requirements.
    …egotiation of fair and reasonable prices; (3) Is consistent with and integrated with the Contractor's related management systems; and (4) Is subject to applicable financial control systems. Estimating system means the Contractor's polici…
  • DFARS 252.227-7037 Validation of Asserted Restrictions on Technical Data.
    …evelopment exclusively at private expense.. The Contracting Officer will presume that the Contractor's or a subcontractor's asserted use or release restrictions with respect to a commercial product or commercial service are justified on the…
  • DFARS 252.234-7002 Earned Value Management System.
    …s a deficiency or combination of deficiencies in the internal control over information in contractor business systems, such that there is a reasonable possibility that a material misstatement of such information will not be prevented, or de…
  • DFARS 252.242-7004 Material Management and Accounting System.
    …system that generally complies with the system criteria in paragraph (d) of this clause. Contractor means a business unit as defined in Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 2.101. Material management and accounting system (MMAS) means the…
  • DFARS 252.242-7006 Accounting System Administration.
    …ocations and charges are consistent with billing procedures. Accounting system means the Contractor's system or systems for accounting methods, procedures, and controls established to gather, record, classify, analyze, summarize, interpret…
  • FAR 26.205 Disaster Response Registry.
    …t the Disaster Response Registry via https://www.sam.gov to determine the availability of contractors for debris removal, distribution of supplies, reconstruction, and other disaster or emergency relief activities inside the United States a…
  • FAR 2.101 Definitions.
    …nd other related services. Assignment of claims means the transfer or making over by the contractor to a bank, trust company, or other financing institution, as security for a loan to the contractor, of its right to be paid by the Governme…
  • FAR 3.905-1 Remedies.
    … of the agency shall— (1) Determine whether sufficient basis exists to conclude that the contractor or subcontractor has subjected the employee who submitted the complaint to a reprisal as prohibited by 3.903; and (2) Either issue an orde…
  • FAR 3.1103 Procedures.
    … clause at 52.203-16, as prescribed at 3.1106, the contracting officer shall require each contractor whose employees perform acquisition functions closely associated with inherently Government functions to— (1) Have procedures in place to …
  • FAR 4.1102 Policy.
    …all use the legal business name or “doing business as” name and physical address from the contractor's SAM registration for the provided unique entity identifier to identify the contractor in section A of the contract schedule, similar sect…
  • FAR 7.503 Policy.
    …t Government property is to be disposed of and on what terms (although an agency may give contractors authority to dispose of property at prices within specified ranges and subject to other reasonable conditions deemed appropriate by the ag…
  • FAR 8.405-2 Ordering procedures for services requiring a statement of work.
    …pplicable services will be identified in the Federal Supply Schedule publications and the contractor's pricelists. For establishing BPAs and for orders under BPAs see 8.405-3. (b) Statements of Work (SOWs). All Statements of Work shall inc…
  • FAR 8.405-3 Blanket purchase agreements (BPAs).
    …s for supplies or services. Ordering activities shall establish the BPA with the schedule contractor(s) that can provide the supply or service that represents the best value. (2) In addition to price (see 8.404(d) and 8.405-4), when determ…
  • FAR 9.405 Effect of listing.
    (a) Contractors debarred, suspended, proposed for debarment, or voluntarily excluded, are excluded from receiving contracts, and agencies shall not solicit offers from, award contracts to, or consent to subcontracts with these contractors, …
  • FAR 15.404-1 Proposal analysis techniques.
    …endations or conclusions regarding the Government's review or analysis of an offeror's or contractor's proposal shall not be disclosed to the offeror or contractor without the concurrence of the contracting officer. Any discrepancy or mista…
  • FAR 16.505 Ordering.
    …reshold are exempt from verification in the System for Award Management as to whether the contractor has a delinquent debt subject to collection under the Treasury Offset Program (TOP). (b) Orders under multiple-award contracts—(1) Fair op…
  • FAR 19.705-6 Postaward responsibilities of the contracting officer.
    … to the Area Director, Office of Government Contracting, in the SBA area office where the contractor's headquarters is located. (c) Give to the SBA procurement center representative (or, if a procurement center representative is not assign…

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.