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86 sections with “evaluate offers”: the first 40

  • FAR 25.503 Group offers.
    …ch line item whether to apply an evaluation factor (see 25.504-4, Example 1). (1) First, evaluate offers that do not specify an award restriction on a line item basis in accordance with 25.502, determining a tentative award pattern by sele…
  • DFARS 225.7703-3 Evaluating offers.
    Evaluate offers submitted in response to solicitations that include the provision at 252.225-7023, Preference for Products or Services from Afghanistan, as follows: (a) If the low offer is an offer of a product or service from Afghanistan,…
  • FAR 13.106-2 Evaluation of quotations or offers.
    (a) General. (1) The contracting officer shall evaluate quotations or offers— (i) In an impartial manner; and (ii) Inclusive of transportation charges from the shipping point of the supplier to the delivery destination. (2) Quotations or…
  • FAR 25.504-4 Group award basis.
    …l offerors are large businesses. The acquisition is not covered by the WTO GPA . STEP 1: Evaluate Offers A & B before considering Offer C and determine which offer has the lowest evaluated cost for each line item (the tentative award patte…
  • DFARS 212.602 Streamlined evaluation of offers.
    …ficant requirement for transportation of items outside the contiguous United States, also evaluate offers in accordance with the criterion at 247.301-71. (iii) For the direct purchase of ocean transportation services, also evaluate offers …
  • DFARS 252.225-7035 Buy American—Free Trade Agreements—Balance of Payments Program Certificate.
    …nts Program—Basic clause of this solicitation. (b) Evaluation. The Government— (1) Will evaluate offers in accordance with the policies and procedures of part 225 of the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement; and (2) For line…
  • FAR 12.602 Streamlined evaluation of offers.
    … required to describe the relative importance of evaluation factors. (b) Offers shall be evaluated in accordance with the criteria contained in the solicitation. For many commercial products or commercial services, the criteria need not be…
  • FAR 52.212-1 Instructions to Offerors—Commercial Products and Commercial Services.
    … offeror; (4) A technical description of the items being offered in sufficient detail to evaluate compliance with the requirements in the solicitation. This may include product literature, or other documents, if necessary; (5) Terms of an…
  • FAR 52.212-3 Offeror Representations and Certifications—Commercial Products and Commercial Services.
    … products containing a critical component: Line Item No. ______ (4) The Government will evaluate offers in accordance with the policies and procedures of FAR part 25. (g)(1) Buy American—Free Trade Agreements—Israeli Trade Act Certificat…
  • FAR 52.225-17 Evaluation of Foreign Currency Offers.
    …B 2000) If the Government receives offers in more than one currency, the Government will evaluate offers by converting the foreign currency to United States currency using [Contracting Officer to insert source of rate] in effect as follows…
  • FAR 52.247-46 Shipping Point(s) Used in Evaluation of F.o.b. Origin Offers.
    …indicate the quantity per shipping point or plant before bid opening, the Government will evaluate the offer on the basis of delivery of the entire quantity from the point or plant where cost of transportation is most favorable to the Gover…
  • FAR 52.247-51 Evaluation of Export Offers.
    …. (b) F.o.b. origin, transportation under Government bill of lading. (1) Offers shall be evaluated and awards made on the basis of the lowest laid down cost to the Government at the overseas port of discharge, via methods and ports compati…
  • DFARS 225.502 Application.
    …or to the low foreign offer. (1) If the price of the low domestic offer is less than the evaluated price of the low foreign offer, award on the low domestic offer (see example in PGI 225.504(3)). (2) If the evaluated price of the low fore…
  • DFARS 252.225-7000 Buy American—Balance of Payments Program Certificate.
    …nts Program—Basic clause of this solicitation. (b) Evaluation. The Government— (1) Will evaluate offers in accordance with the policies and procedures of Part 225 of the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement; and (2) Will eva…
  • FAR 15.404-1 Proposal analysis techniques.
    … (see paragraph (b) of this subsection and 15.404-3). (3) Cost analysis shall be used to evaluate the reasonableness of individual cost elements when certified cost or pricing data are required. Price analysis should be used to verify that…
  • FAR 17.206 Evaluation.
    …ract, the contracting officer shall, except as provided in paragraph (b) of this section, evaluate offers for any option quantities or periods contained in a solicitation when it has been determined prior to soliciting offers that the Gover…
  • FAR 25.504-1 Buy American statute.
    …m the steps in 25.502(a). Offer C is of 50 percent domestic content, therefore Offer C is evaluated as a foreign end product, because it is the product of a small business but is not a domestic end product (see 25.502(c)(4)). Since Offer B …
  • FAR 25.605 Evaluating offers of foreign construction material.
    …arable domestic unmanufactured construction material requested by the offeror. (3) Total evaluated price = offered price + (.25 × offered price, if (a)(1) applies) + (.20 × cost of foreign unmanufactured construction material, if (a)(2) ap…
  • FAR 47.305-16 Shipping characteristics.
    …ranteed Shipping Characteristics, when shipping and other characteristics are required to evaluate offers as to transportation costs. When all of the shipping characteristics listed in paragraph (a) of the clause at 52.247-60 are not requir…
  • FAR 52.215-1 Instructions to Offerors—Competitive Acquisition.
    …l not be duplicated, used, or disclosed—in whole or in part—for any purpose other than to evaluate this proposal. If, however, a contract is awarded to this offeror as a result of—or in connection with—the submission of this data, the Gover…
  • DFARS 252.225-7032 Waiver of United Kingdom Levies—Evaluation of offers.
    …. (1) If the U.K. waives levies before award of a contract, the Contracting Officer will evaluate the offer without the levy. (2) If levies are identified but not waived before award of a contract, the Contracting Officer will evaluate th…
  • FAR 12.205 Offers.
    …licitations for commercial products or commercial services. The contracting officer shall evaluate each offer separately (c) Consistent with the requirements at 5.203(b), the contracting officer may allow fewer than 30 days response time f…
  • FAR 15.101-2 Lowest price technically acceptable source selection process.
    … expected to result from selection of the technically acceptable proposal with the lowest evaluated price. (b) When using the lowest price technically acceptable process, the following apply: (1) The evaluation factors and significant sub…
  • FAR 25.106 Determining reasonableness of cost.
    …part 19.5). (ii) The price of the domestic offer is reasonable if it does not exceed the evaluated price of the low offer after addition of the appropriate evaluation factor in accordance with paragraph (a) or (b)(1)(i) of this section. Se…
  • FAR 25.502 Application.
    …n to cost or price, apply the evaluation factors as specified in this section and use the evaluated cost or price in determining the offer that represents the best value to the Government. (b) For acquisitions covered by the WTO GPA (see S…
  • FAR 52.212-2 Evaluation—Commercial Products and Commercial Services.
    …he Government, price and other factors considered. The following factors shall be used to evaluate offers: (Contracting Officer shall insert the significant evaluation factors, such as (i) technical capability of the item offered to meet t…
  • FAR 52.225-6 Trade Agreements Certificate.
    … country end products. Other End Products: [List as necessary] (c) The Government will evaluate offers in accordance with the policies and procedures of Part 25 of the Federal Acquisition Regulation. For line items covered by the WTO GPA…
  • FAR 52.225-24 Notice of Required Use of American Iron, Steel, and Manufactured Goods—Buy American Statute—Construction Materials Under Trade Agreements.
    …domestic construction material applies in accordance with FAR 25.604, the Government will evaluate an offer requesting exception to the requirements of section 1605 of the Recovery Act or the Buy American statute by adding to the offered pr…
  • DFARS 225.503 Group offers.
    Evaluate group offers in accordance with FAR 25.503, but apply the evaluation procedures of 225.502.
  • DFARS 252.225-7020 Trade Agreements Certificate.
    … Agreements—Basic clause of this solicitation. (b) Evaluation. The Government— (1) Will evaluate offers in accordance with the policies and procedures of part 225 of the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement; and (2) Will con…
  • FAR 19.301-1 Representation by the offeror.
    …er at the time of initial offer, (whether or not the offer includes price or the price is evaluated), including offers for— (1) Basic ordering agreements (see 16.703); and (2) Blanket purchase agreements (BPAs) issued pursuant to part 13.…
  • FAR 25.406 Israeli Trade Act.
    …he Interior, the Federal Housing Finance Board, and the Office of Thrift Supervision must evaluate offers of Israeli end products without regard to the restrictions of the Buy American statute. The Israeli Trade Act does not prohibit the pu…
  • FAR 52.217-3 Evaluation Exclusive of Options.
    …ed in 17.208 (b) or (c): Evaluation Exclusive of Options (APR 1984) The Government will evaluate offers for award purposes by including only the price for the basic requirement; i.e., options will not be included in the evaluation for awa…
  • FAR 52.217-5 Evaluation of Options.
    …ance with FAR 17.206(b) not to be in the Government's best interests, the Government will evaluate offers for award purposes by adding the total price for all options to the total price for the basic requirement. Evaluation of options will …
  • FAR 52.219-4 Notice of Price Evaluation Preference for HUBZone Small Business Concerns.
    …HUBZone Small Business Concerns (OCT 2022) (a) Evaluation preference. (1) Offers will be evaluated by adding a factor of 10 percent to the price of all offers, except— (i) Offers from HUBZone small business concerns that have not waived t…
  • FAR 52.225-2 Buy American Certificate.
    … products containing a critical component: Line Item No. ______ (d) The Government will evaluate offers in accordance with the policies and procedures of part 25 of the Federal Acquisition Regulation. (End of provision)
  • FAR 52.225-4 Buy American—Free Trade Agreements—Israeli Trade Act Certificate.
    …ain a critical component (see FAR 25.105). Line Item No. ______ (d) The Government will evaluate offers in accordance with the policies and procedures of part 25 of the Federal Acquisition Regulation. (End of provision) Alternate I [Res…
  • FAR 52.225-12 Notice of Buy American Requirement—Construction Materials Under Trade Agreements.
    …tion and supporting data in the offer. (c) Evaluation of offers. (1) The Government will evaluate an offer requesting exception to the requirements of the Buy American statute, based on claimed unreasonable cost of domestic construction ma…
  • FAR 52.225-22 Notice of Required Use of American Iron, Steel, and Manufactured Goods—Buy American Statute—Construction Materials.
    …domestic construction material applies in accordance with FAR 25.604, the Government will evaluate an offer requesting exception to the requirements of section 1605 of the Recovery Act or the Buy American statute by adding to the offered pr…
  • FAR 52.247-47 Evaluation—F.o.b. Origin.
    …ion by regulated common carrier for shipment within the contiguous United States. (b) To evaluate offers, the Government will consider only these methods to establish the cost of transportation between offeror's shipping point and destinat…

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