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32 sections with “equal products”

  • 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 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…
  • 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…
  • 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 …
  • FAR 52.212-3 Offeror Representations and Certifications—Commercial Products and Commercial Services.
    …(i) It □ has, □ has not participated in a previous contract or subcontract subject to the Equal Opportunity clause of this solicitation; and (ii) It □ has, □ has not filed all required compliance reports. (2) Affirmative Action Compliance…
  • DFARS 211.104 Use of brand name or equal purchase descriptions.
    A justification and approval is required to use brand name or equal purchase descriptions— (1) When using sealed bidding or negotiated acquisition procedures (see 206.302-1(c)(2) for justification requirements); or (2) When using the simp…
  • 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 22.1310 Solicitation provision and contract clauses.
    (a)(1) Insert the clause at 52.222-35, Equal Opportunity for Veterans, in solicitations and contracts if the expected value is $200,000 or more, except when— (i) Work is performed outside the United States by employees recruited outside th…
  • FAR 31.205-6 Compensation for personal services.
    …ty of employment with credit for prior length of service is preserved under substantially equal conditions of employment, or continued employment by the contractor at another facility, subsidiary, affiliate, or parent company of the contrac…
  • FAR 32.202-4 Security for Government financing.
    … contracting officer may find acceptable. (3) The value of the security must be at least equal to the maximum unliquidated amount of contract financing payments to be made to the contractor. The value of security may be adjusted periodical…
  • 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 52.227-11 Patent Rights—Ownership by the Contractor.
    …usiness concern has a plan or proposal for marketing the invention which, if executed, is equally as likely to bring the invention to practical application as any plans or proposals from applicants that are not small business concerns; prov…
  • 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 4.1202 Solicitation provision and contract clause.
    …-1, Small Business Program Representations (Basic, Alternates I, and II). (15) 52.219-2, Equal Low Bids. (16) [Reserved] (17) 52.222-18, Certification Regarding Knowledge of Child Labor for Listed End Products. (18) 52.222-22, Previous …
  • 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 6.302-5 Authorized or required by statute.
    …, that the procurement be made from a specified source); or (iii) Contracts less than or equal to $30 million awarded under paragraph (b)(4) of this section. (3) The authority in paragraph (a)(2)(ii) of this section may be used only for p…
  • 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 15.407-2 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 22.1505 Solicitation provision and contract clause.
    …icable end products and countries of origin from the List. For solicitations estimated to equal or exceed $50,000, the contracting officer must exclude from the List in the solicitation end products from any countries identified at 22.1503(…
  • FAR 25.402 General.
    …ther discriminatory provisions for eligible products. Offers of eligible products receive equal consideration with domestic offers. (2) The contracting officer shall determine the origin of services by the country in which the firm providi…
  • 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 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 52.215-14 Integrity of Unit Prices.
    …o line items that distorts 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. Nothing in this paragraph requires submission of …
  • FAR 52.232-16 Progress Payments.
    …overnment expressly assumes the risk. The Contractor shall repay the Government an amount equal to the unliquidated progress payments that are based on costs allocable to property that is lost (see 45.101). (f) Control of costs and propert…
  • FAR 52.250-4 SAFETY Act Pre-qualification Designation Notice.
    … (i) Files a SAFETY Act designation application, limited to the scope of the applicable prequalification designation notice, within 15 days after submission of the proposal; (ii) Pursues its SAFETY Act designation application in good faith…
  • DFARS 215.404-71-2 Performance risk.
    …lement according to its input to the total performance risk. The total of the two weights equals 100 percent. (2) Select a value for each element from the list in paragraph (c) of this subsection using the evaluation criteria in paragraphs…
  • DFARS 216.601 Time-and-materials contracts.
    … of the requirement performed on a time-and-materials or labor-hour basis is less than or equal to $1 million, the determination and findings shall be approved one level above the contracting officer. (2) Base period plus any option period…

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.