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27 sections with “defective data”

  • FAR 15.407-1 Defective certified cost or pricing data.
    … immediately bring the matter to the attention of the prospective contractor, whether the defective data increase or decrease the contract price. The contracting officer shall consider any new data submitted to correct the deficiency, or co…
  • FAR 52.214-27 Price Reduction for Defective Certified Cost or Pricing Data—Modifications—Sealed Bidding.
    As prescribed in 14.201-7(b), insert the following clause: Price Reduction for Defective Certified Cost or Pricing Data—Modifications—Sealed Bidding (JUN 2020) (a) This clause shall become operative only for any modification to this contr…
  • FAR 52.215-10 Price Reduction for Defective Certified Cost or Pricing Data.
    As prescribed in 15.408(b), insert the following clause: Price Reduction for Defective Certified Cost or Pricing Data (AUG 2011) (a) If any price, including profit or fee, negotiated in connection with this contract, or any cost reimbursa…
  • FAR 52.215-11 Price Reduction for Defective Certified Cost or Pricing Data—Modifications.
    As prescribed in 15.408(c), insert the following clause: Price Reduction for Defective Certified Cost or Pricing Data—Modifications (JUN 2020) (a) This clause shall become operative only for any modification to this contract involving a p…
  • 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…
  • FAR 15.408 Solicitation provisions and contract clauses.
    …rnate II, 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 Reduct…
  • DFARS 227.7103-14 Conformity, acceptance, and warranty of technical data.
    …warranty should be considered if the Government intends to repair or maintain an item and defective repair or maintenance data would impair the Government's effective use of the item or result in increased costs to the Government. (2) As p…
  • FAR 15.406-3 Documenting the negotiation.
    …on taken by the contracting officer and the contractor as a result; and the effect of the defective data on the price negotiated; or (iii) Determined that an exception applied after the data were submitted and, therefore, considered not to…
  • FAR 42.1503 Procedures.
    …ons, tax delinquency, failure to report in accordance with contract terms and conditions, defective cost or pricing data, terminations, suspension and debarments, and failure to comply with limitations on subcontracting). (3) Evaluation fa…
  • FAR 52.244-2 Subcontracts.
    …ent; the action taken by the Contractor and the subcontractor; and the effect of any such defective data on the total price negotiated; (F) The reasons for any significant difference between the Contractor's price objective and the price n…
  • FAR 32.607-2 Deferment of collection.
    …2.608 and the FAR clause at 52.232-17, Interest; or, in the case of a debt arising from a defective pricing or a CAS noncompliance overpayment, interest, as prescribed by the applicable Price Reduction for Defective Certified Cost or Pricin…
  • FAR 33.207 Contractor certification.
    …xecuted by any person authorized to bind the contractor with respect to the claim. (f) A defective certification shall not deprive a court or an agency BCA of jurisdiction over that claim. Prior to the entry of a final judgment by a court …
  • FAR 33.211 Contracting officer's decision.
    …no obligation to render a final decision on any claim exceeding $100,000 which contains a defective certification, if within 60 days after receipt of the claim, the contracting officer notifies the contractor, in writing, of the reasons why…
  • FAR 52.246-17 Warranty of Supplies of a Noncomplex Nature.
    …y the Contracting Officer under paragraph (c)(2) of this clause to correct or replace the defective or nonconforming supplies. In the event it is later determined that the supplies were not defective or nonconforming within the terms and co…
  • FAR 52.246-18 Warranty of Supplies of a Complex Nature.
    …ptance) or at the Contractor's plant, to repair or replace, at the Contractor's election, defective or nonconforming supplies; or (ii) Require the Contractor to furnish at the Contractor's plant the materials or parts and installation inst…
  • FAR 14.201-7 Contract clauses.
    …idding, the contracting officer shall insert the clause at 52.214-27, Price Reduction for Defective Certified Cost or Pricing Data—Modifications—Sealed Bidding, in solicitations and contracts if the contract amount is expected to exceed the…
  • FAR 32.601 General.
    …determination of prices under incentive type contracts. (2) Price or cost reductions for defective certified cost or pricing data. (3) Financing payments determined to be in excess of the contract limitations at 52.232-16(a)(7), Progress …
  • FAR 49.603-1 Fixed-price contracts—complete termination.
    … any, of the parties under those clauses of the contract relating to price reductions for defective certified cost or pricing data. (End of agreement)
  • FAR 49.603-2 Fixed-price contracts—partial termination.
    … any, of the parties under those clauses of the contract relating to price reductions for defective certified cost or pricing data. (End of agreement)
  • FAR 49.603-3 Cost-reimbursement contracts—complete termination, if settlement includes cost.
    … any, of the parties under those clauses of the contract relating to price reductions for defective certified cost or pricing data. (End of agreement)
  • FAR 49.603-4 Cost-reimbursement contracts—complete termination, with settlement limited to fee.
    … any, of the parties under those clauses of the contract relating to price reductions for defective certified cost or pricing data. (End of agreement)
  • FAR 52.232-17 Interest.
    …(MAY 2014) (a) Except as otherwise provided in this contract under a Price Reduction for Defective Certified Cost or Pricing Data clause or a Cost Accounting Standards clause, all amounts that become payable by the Contractor to the Govern…
  • FAR 52.232-25 Prompt payment.
    …cticable), title, phone number, and mailing address of person to notify in the event of a defective invoice. (viii) Taxpayer Identification Number (TIN). The Contractor shall include its TIN on the invoice only if required elsewhere in thi…
  • FAR 52.232-26 Prompt Payment for Fixed-Price Architect-Engineer Contracts.
    …cticable), title, phone number, and mailing address of person to notify in the event of a defective invoice. (viii) Taxpayer Identification Number (TIN). The Contractor shall include its TIN on the invoice only if required elsewhere in thi…
  • FAR 52.232-27 Prompt Payment for Construction Contracts.
    …cticable), title, phone number, and mailing address of person to notify in the event of a defective invoice. (viii) For payments described in paragraph (a)(1)(i) of this clause, substantiation of the amounts requested and certification in …
  • FAR 52.233-1 Disputes.
    …ld be due, if that date is later, until the date of payment. With regard to claims having defective certifications, as defined in (FAR) 48 CFR 33.201, interest shall be paid from the date that the Contracting Officer initially receives the …
  • FAR 52.246-3 Inspection of Supplies—Cost-Reimbursement.
    …lies that are nonconforming at time of delivery. Supplies are nonconforming when they are defective in material or workmanship or are otherwise not in conformity with contract requirements. Except as otherwise provided in paragraph (h) belo…

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.