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56 sections with “final agency decision”: the first 40

  • FAR 3.705 Procedures.
    (a) Reporting. The facts concerning any final conviction for any violation of 18 U.S.C. 201-224 involving or relating to agency contracts shall be reported promptly to the agency head or designee for that official's consideration. The agenc…
  • FAR 19.602-3 Resolving differences between the agency and the Small Business Administration.
    …ng officer and the SBA shall make every effort to reach a resolution before the SBA takes final action on a COC. This shall be done through the complete exchange of information and in accordance with agency procedures. If agreement cannot b…
  • FAR 27.404-5 Unauthorized, omitted, or incorrect markings.
    …ot authorized, the contractor will be furnished a written determination which becomes the final agency decision regarding the appropriateness of the markings and the markings will be cancelled or ignored and the data will no longer be made …
  • FAR 52.227-14 Rights in Data—General.
    … will furnish the Contractor a written determination, which determination will become the final agency decision regarding the appropriateness of the markings unless the Contractor files suit in a court of competent jurisdiction within 90 da…
  • FAR 2.101 Definitions.
    …e Federal agency that, on behalf of all Federal agencies, is responsible for establishing final indirect cost rates and forward pricing rates, if applicable, and administering cost accounting standards for all contracts in a business unit. …
  • FAR 19.308 Protesting a firm's status as an economically disadvantaged women-owned small business concern or women-owned small business concern eligible under the Women-Owned Small Business Program.
    …protested concern of its determination. The determination is effective immediately and is final unless overturned on appeal by OHA pursuant to 13 CFR part 134. (1) If the contracting officer has withheld contract award and SBA has denied o…
  • FAR 19.705-7 Compliance with the subcontracting plan.
    …onstrate what good faith efforts have been made before the contracting officer issues the final decision and shall further state that failure of the contractor to respond may be taken as an admission that no valid explanation exists. (e) P…
  • FAR 32.904 Determining payment due dates.
    …h day after Government acceptance of supplies delivered or services performed. (A) For a final invoice, when the payment amount is subject to contract settlement actions, acceptance is deemed to occur on the effective date of the contract …
  • FAR 33.211 Contracting officer's decision.
    …ision, with supporting rationale; (v) Paragraphs substantially as follows: “This is the final decision of the Contracting Officer. You may appeal this decision to the agency board of contract appeals. If you decide to appeal, you must, wi…
  • FAR 36.602-4 Selection authority.
    (a) The final selection decision shall be made by the agency head or a designated selection authority. (b) The selection authority shall review the recommendations of the evaluation board and shall, with the advice of appropriate technical…
  • FAR 42.1503 Procedures.
    …individuals responsible for preparing and reviewing interim evaluations, if prepared, and final evaluations (e.g., contracting officers, contracting officer representatives, project managers, and program managers). Those individuals identif…
  • FAR 52.212-4 Contract Terms and Conditions—Commercial Products and Commercial Services.
    …rence. The Contractor shall proceed diligently with performance of this contract, pending final resolution of any dispute arising under the contract. (e) Definitions. The clause at FAR 52.202-1, Definitions, is incorporated herein by refer…
  • FAR 52.216-7 Allowable Cost and Payment.
    …interest penalty provisions of the Prompt Payment Act. Interim payments made prior to the final payment under the contract are contract financing payments, except interim payments if this contract contains Alternate I to the clause at 52.23…
  • FAR 52.222-41 Service Contract Labor Standards.
    …or. The Wage and Hour Division will approve, modify, or disapprove the action or render a final determination in the event of disagreement within 30 days of receipt or will notify the Contracting Officer within 30 days of receipt that addit…
  • FAR 52.230-6 Administration of Cost Accounting Standards.
    …part 16.4); (3) Orders issued under indefinite-delivery contracts and subcontracts where final payment is not based on actual costs incurred (FAR Subpart 16.5); and (4) The fixed-hourly rate portion of time-and-materials and labor-hours c…
  • FAR 52.242-3 Penalties for Unallowable Costs.
    … Costs (DEC 2022) (a) Definition. Proposal, as used in this clause, means either— (1) A final indirect cost rate proposal submitted by the Contractor after the expiration of its fiscal year which— (i) Relates to any payment made on the b…
  • DFARS 227.7103-13 Government right to review, verify, challenge, and validate asserted restrictions.
    …actor's failure to respond to the challenge notice cannot be the sole basis for issuing a final decision denying the validity of an asserted restriction. (d) Challenge and validation. All challenges shall be made in accordance with the pro…
  • DFARS 227.7203-13 Government right to review, verify, challenge, and validate asserted restrictions.
    …er a contract. The Government's right to challenge an assertion expires three years after final payment under the contract or three years after delivery of the software, whichever is later. Those limitations on the Government's challenge ri…
  • DFARS 242.7000 Contractor business system deficiencies.
    …. L. 112-81). (b) Determination to withhold payments. If the contracting officer makes a final determination to disapprove a contractor's business system in accordance with the clause at 252.242-7005, Contractor Business Systems, the contr…
  • DFARS 252.227-7019 Validation of Asserted Restrictions—Computer Software.
    … the software is delivered or otherwise furnished to the Government, or 6 years following final payment under this contract, whichever is later. (2) The absence of a challenge to an asserted restriction shall not constitute validation unde…
  • DFARS 252.227-7037 Validation of Asserted Restrictions on Technical Data.
    …e current validity of the asserted restriction; (iii) State that a Contracting Officer's final decision, issued pursuant to paragraph (g) of this clause, sustaining the validity of a prior asserted restriction identical to the current asse…
  • DFARS 252.227-7038 Patent Rights—Ownership by the Contractor (Large Business).
    …l subject inventions have been disclosed or that there are no subject inventions. (ii) A final report, within 3 months after completion of the contracted work, listing all subject inventions or stating that there were no subject inventions…
  • FAR 8.406-6 Disputes.
    …lause of the schedule contract, the ordering activity contracting officer may— (i) Issue final decisions on disputes arising from performance of the order (but see paragraph (b) of this section); or (ii) Refer the dispute to the schedule …
  • FAR 30.606 Resolving cost impacts.
    …; and (B) Adjust interim payment requests (public vouchers and/or progress payments) and final vouchers to reflect the difference between the costs paid using the noncompliant practice and the costs that should have been paid using the com…
  • DFARS 234.201 Policy.
    …tial determination, in consultation with the auditor or functional specialist, and make a final determination. (iii) Final determination. (A) The contracting officer shall make a final determination and notify the contractor, in writing, t…
  • FAR 15.407-1 Defective certified cost or pricing data.
    …t or pricing data are found to be inaccurate, incomplete, or noncurrent as of the date of final agreement on price or an earlier date agreed upon by the parties given on the contractor's or subcontractor's Certificate of Current Cost or Pri…
  • FAR 33.102 General.
    …ount of the debt, and the intention to collect by offset if necessary. Prior to issuing a final decision, the contracting officer shall afford the contractor an opportunity to inspect and copy agency records pertaining to the debt to the ex…
  • FAR 33.214 Alternative dispute resolution (ADR).
    …claim. When ADR procedures are used subsequent to the issuance of a contracting officer's final decision, their use does not alter any of the time limitations or procedural requirements for filing an appeal of the contracting officer's fina…
  • FAR 42.302 Contract administration functions.
    …osts when there is reason to believe they should be suspended or disapproved, and approve final vouchers. (8) Issue Notices of Intent to Disallow or not Recognize Costs (see subpart 42.8). (9) Establish final indirect cost rates and billi…
  • FAR 42.709-4 Assessing the penalty.
    …peal and was not withdrawn by the cognizant Government agency; (2) A contracting officer final decision which was not appealed; (3) A prior executive agency Board of Contract Appeals or court decision involving the contractor, which uphel…
  • DFARS 219.702-70 Statutory requirements for the Test Program for Negotiation of Comprehensive Small Business Subcontracting Plans.
    … comply with the comprehensive subcontracting plan, the contracting officer shall issue a final decision. The contracting officer's final decision shall include the right of the contractor to appeal under the Disputes clause. The contractin…
  • FAR 4.604 Responsibilities.
    …after award of a contract, the contracting officer receives written notification of SBA's final decision on a protest concerning a size determination, the contracting officer shall update FPDS to reflect the final decision. (c) The chief a…
  • FAR 15.404-1 Proposal analysis techniques.
    (a) General. The objective of proposal analysis is to ensure that the final agreed-to price is fair and reasonable. (1) The contracting officer is responsible for evaluating the reasonableness of the offered prices. The analytical techniqu…
  • FAR 30.604 Processing changes to disclosed or established cost accounting practices.
    …r closed) or the fiscal year(s) in which the costs are incurred (i.e., whether or not the final indirect rates have been established); (2) Combine the cost impact for all affected CAS-covered contracts and subcontracts for all segments if …
  • FAR 32.604 Demand for payment.
    …ntractor has agreed to repay the debt. (3) Issue the demand for payment as a part of the final decision, if a final decision is required by 32.605(a). (b) The demand for payment shall include the following: (1) A description of the debt,…
  • DFARS 252.219-7004 Small Business Subcontracting Plan (Test Program).
    …o comply with the comprehensive subcontracting plan, the Contracting Officer will issue a final decision to the Contractor to that effect and require the Contractor to pay liquidated damages to the Government in the amount identified in the…
  • FAR 8.602 Policy.
    …ral Services, and the President, or their representatives. The decisions of the board are final and binding on all parties.
  • FAR 9.403 Definitions.
    …ther disposition that creates a civil liability for the complained of wrongful acts, or a final determination of liability under the Program Fraud Civil Remedies Act of 1986 (31 U.S.C. 3801-3812). Contractor means any individual or other l…
  • FAR 11.002 Policy.
    …pply specifications, standards, and related documents initially for guidance only, making final decisions on the application and tailoring of these documents as a product of the design and development process. Requiring agencies should not …
  • FAR 12.403 Termination.
    …t will inform the contractor of the remedy; and (iv) State that the notice constitutes a final decision of the contracting officer and that the contractor has the right to appeal under the Disputes clause (see 33.211). (4) The contracting…

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.