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48 CFR · Federal Acquisition Regulation and Defense supplement

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62 sections with “equal item”: the first 40

  • FAR 52.211-6 Brand name or equal.
    As prescribed in 11.107(a), insert the following provision: Brand Name or Equal (AUG 1999) (a) If an item in this solicitation is identified as “brand name or equal,” the purchase description reflects the characteristics and level of qual…
  • FAR 11.104 Use of brand name or equal purchase descriptions.
    …preferred to encourage offerors to propose innovative solutions, the use of brand name or equal purchase descriptions may be advantageous under certain circumstances. (b) Brand name or equal purchase descriptions must include, in addition …
  • FAR 52.212-5 Contract Terms and Conditions Required To Implement Statutes or Executive Orders—Commercial Products and Commercial Services.
    … __(33) 52.222-21, Prohibition of Segregated Facilities (APR 2015). __(34)(i) 52.222-26, Equal Opportunity (SEPT 2016) (E.O. 11246). __(ii) Alternate I (FEB 1999) of 52.222-26. __(35)(i) 52.222-35, Equal Opportunity for Veterans (JUN 202…
  • DFARS 225.1101 Acquisition of supplies.
    …e., the acquisition is of end products listed at 225.401-70, the value of the acquisition equals or exceeds $174,000, and none of the exceptions at 25.401(a) applies. (i) Use the basic clause in solicitations and contracts that are not of …
  • DFARS 252.216-7001 Economic Price Adjustment-Nonstandard Steel Items.
    …ent steel index and the denominator shall be the base steel index); and (iii) The amount equal to ______ percent of the original contract unit price (representing that portion of the unit price which relates neither to the cost of labor no…
  • FAR 15.408 Solicitation provisions and contract clauses.
    …deleted work less the cost of deleted work already performed. Column (2) minus Column (3) equals Column (4). (5) Enter your estimate for cost of work added by the change. When nonrecurring costs are significant, or when specifically reques…
  • FAR 52.204-8 Annual Representations and Certifications.
    …lt in a multiple-award contract with more than one NAICS code assigned. (xiii) 52.219-2, Equal Low Bids. This provision applies to solicitations when contracting by sealed bidding and the contract is for supplies to be delivered or service…
  • FAR 52.213-4 Terms and Conditions—Simplified Acquisitions (Other Than Commercial Products and Commercial Services).
    …5). (vii) 52.222-21, Prohibition of Segregated Facilities (APR 2015). (viii) 52.222-26, Equal Opportunity (SEP 2016) (E.O. 11246). (ix) 52.225-13, Restrictions on Certain Foreign Purchases (FEB 2021) (E.O.s, proclamations, and statutes a…
  • FAR 52.232-30 Installment Payments for Commercial Products and Commercial Services.
    …t payments. The number of installment payments authorized for each unit of a line item is equal to the number of months from the date of contract award to the date one month before the first delivery of the first separately priced unit of t…
  • FAR 52.244-6 Subcontracts for Commercial Products and Commercial Services.
    …ties. (xi) 52.222-21, Prohibition of Segregated Facilities (APR 2015). (xii) 52.222-26, Equal Opportunity (SEP 2016) (E.O. 11246). (xiii) 52.222-35, Equal Opportunity for Veterans (Jun 2020) (38 U.S.C. 4212(a)). (xiv) 52.222-36, Equal O…
  • FAR 52.249-6 Termination (Cost-Reimbursement).
    …r the convenience of the Government, the settlement shall include a percentage of the fee equal to the percentage of completion of work contemplated under the contract, but excluding subcontract effort included in subcontractors' terminatio…
  • FAR 11.603 Procedures.
    …hed by the DPAS, identified by the rating symbols “DO” and “DX”. All DO rated orders have equal priority with each other and take preference over unrated orders. All DX rated orders have equal priority with each other and take preference ov…
  • FAR 48.001 Definitions.
    …t reductions on the contract under which the VECP is submitted and accepted, and that are equal to the instant unit cost reduction multiplied by the number of instant contract units affected by the VECP, less the contractor's allowable deve…
  • FAR 48.201 Clauses for supply or service contracts.
    …ngineering, by— (1) Revising paragraph (i)(3)(i) of the clause by substituting “a number equal to the quantity required to be delivered over a period of between 36 and 60 consecutive months (set at the discretion of the Contracting Officer…
  • FAR 52.223-7 Notice of Radioactive Materials.
    …the specific activity is greater than 0.002 microcuries per gram or the activity per item equals or exceeds 0.01 microcuries. Such notice shall specify the part or parts of the items which contain radioactive materials, a description of the…
  • FAR 52.232-5 Payments Under Fixed-Price Construction Contracts.
    …mputed by the Contracting Officer in the manner provided in paragraph (j) of this clause) equal to interest on the unearned amount from the 8th day after the date of receipt of the unearned amount until— (i) The date the Contractor notifie…
  • FAR 52.246-17 Warranty of Supplies of a Noncomplex Nature.
    …ver, the Contractor's liability for the transportation charges shall not exceed an amount equal to the cost of transportation by the usual commercial method of shipment between the place of delivery specified in this contract and the Contra…
  • FAR 52.246-19 Warranty of Systems and Equipment under Performance Specifications or Design Criteria.
    …ally accepted. The warranty, with respect to these supplies, parts, or services, shall be equal in duration to that set forth in paragraph (b)(1) of this clause, and shall run from the date of delivery of the corrected or replaced supplies.…
  • FAR 52.248-1 Value Engineering.
    …t savings, which are the net cost reductions on this, the instant contract, and which are equal to the instant unit cost reduction multiplied by the number of instant contract units affected by the VECP, less the Contractor's allowable deve…
  • DFARS 215.404-71-3 Contract type risk and working capital adjustment.
    …yment schedule that is routine with minimal risk. (e) Costs financed. (1) Costs financed equal total costs multiplied by the portion (percent) of costs financed by the contractor. (2) Total costs equal Block 20 (i.e., all allowable costs …
  • DFARS 252.204-7012 Safeguarding Covered Defense Information and Cyber Incident Reporting.
    …thorized representative of the DoD CIO to be nonapplicable or to have an alternative, but equally effective, security measure that may be implemented in its place. (C) If the DoD CIO has previously adjudicated the contractor's requests ind…
  • FAR 2.101 Definitions.
    …enting regulations; (2) 41 U.S.C. chapter 67, Service Contract Labor Standards; (3) The Equal Employment Opportunity Acts and Executive orders; (4) 41 U.S.C. chapter 65, Contracts for Material, Supplies, Articles, and Equipment Exceeding…
  • FAR 3.501-2 General.
    … Priced options for additional quantities that, together with the firm contract quantity, equal the program requirements (see subpart 17.2). (c) Other safeguards are available to the contracting officer to preclude recovery of buying-in lo…
  • FAR 6.302-1 Only one responsible source and no other supplies or services will satisfy agency requirements.
    …justification shall be posted with the solicitation (see 5.102(a)(6)). (2) Brand-name or equal descriptions, and other purchase descriptions that permit prospective contractors to offer products other than those specifically referenced by …
  • FAR 8.710 Quality of merchandise.
    …n no specifications or standards exist— (a) Supplies shall be of the highest quality and equal to similar items available on the commercial market; and (b) Services shall conform to good commercial practices.
  • FAR 14.405 Minor informalities or irregularities in bids.
    …y, or delivery of the item bid upon; and (e) Execute the representations with respect to Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Programs, as set forth in the clauses at 52.222-22, Previous Contracts and Compliance Reports, and 52.222-25,…
  • FAR 15.404-1 Proposal analysis techniques.
    …ne items that distorts the unit prices shall not be used. For example, distributing costs equally among line items is not acceptable except when there is little or no variation in base cost. (2) Except for the acquisition of commercial pro…
  • FAR 15.404-4 Profit.
    … Government's estimate of allowable costs to be incurred in contract performance together equal the Government's total prenegotiation objective. Just as actual costs may vary from estimated costs, the contractor's actual realized profit or …
  • FAR 15.407-1 Defective certified cost or pricing data.
    … or pricing data was a knowing submission, the contracting officer shall obtain an amount equal to the amount of overpayment made. Before taking any contractual actions concerning penalties, the contracting officer shall obtain the advice o…
  • FAR 15.407-2 Make-or-buy programs.
    …—quality, quantity, delivery, and other essential factors considered—from another firm at equal or lower prices, or when they are regularly manufactured or provided by the contractor, but are available—quality, quantity, delivery, and other…
  • FAR 19.502-5 Insufficient reasons for not setting aside an acquisition.
    … the item or service has been made by another contracting activity. (h) A “brand name or equal” product description will be used in the solicitation.
  • FAR 19.705-2 Determining the need for a subcontracting plan.
    …nt in-house capability to perform the work; (2) Whether there are likely to be product prequalification requirements; and (3) Whether the firm can acquire any portion of the work with minimal or no disruption to performance (with consider…
  • FAR 19.1307 Price evaluation preference for HUBZone small business concerns.
    …rn and a large business, and the evaluated offer of the HUBZone small business concern is equal to the evaluated offer of the large business after considering the price evaluation preference, the contracting officer shall award the contract…
  • FAR 22.406-2 Wages, fringe benefits, and overtime.
    … the month, the hourly cash equivalent is determined by dividing $112 by 125 hours, which equals $0.90 per hour. Similarly, the calculation of hourly cash equivalent for nine paid holidays per year for an employee with an hourly rate of pay…
  • FAR 23.304 Contract clauses.
    …the specific activity is greater than 0.002 microcuries per gram or the activity per item equals or exceeds 0.01 microcuries. Such supplies include, but are not limited to, aircraft, ammunition, missiles, vehicles, electronic tubes, instrum…
  • FAR 32.206 Solicitation provisions and contract clauses.
    …lment payment financing is payment by the Government to a contractor of a fixed number of equal interim financing payments prior to delivery and acceptance of a contract item. The installment payment arrangement is designed to reduce admini…
  • FAR 32.503-6 Suspension or reduction of payments.
    …adjust progress payments when necessary to ensure that the fair value of undelivered work equals or exceeds the amount of unliquidated progress payments. On loss contracts, the application of a loss ratio as provided at paragraph (g) of thi…
  • FAR 32.503-15 Application of Government title terms.
    …om the costs of contract performance, and (2) repay or credit to the Government an amount equal to the unliquidated progress payments, allocable to the transferred property. (e) If excess property remains after the contract performance is …
  • FAR 36.202 Specifications.
    …s promulgated by governments, industries, or technical societies. (c) When brand name or equal descriptions are necessary, specifications must clearly identify and describe the particular physical, functional, or other characteristics of t…
  • FAR 46.706 Warranty terms and conditions.
    …the contractor's liability for transportation charges incurred shall not exceed an amount equal to the cost of transportation by the usual commercial method of shipment between the place of delivery specified in the contract and the contrac…

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.