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24 sections with “final completion and acceptance”

  • 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…
  • 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…
  • 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 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 52.227-13 Patent Rights—Ownership by the Government.
    …at the procedures required by paragraph (e)(1) of this clause have been followed. (ii) A final report, within 3 months after completion of the contracted work, listing all subject inventions or stating that there were none, and listing all…
  • 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 52.237-4 Payment by Government to Contractor.
    …s payments the Contracting Officer shall retain 10 percent of the estimated payment until final completion and acceptance of the contract work. However, if the Contracting Officer finds that satisfactory progress was achieved during any per…
  • FAR 52.245-1 Government Property.
    …urplus property), or other disposition, or via a completed investigation, evaluation, and final determination for lost property. This requirement applies to all Government property under the Contractor's accountability, stewardship, possess…
  • DFARS 252.217-7007 Payments.
    …k to date that the Contracting Officer may require. (c) The Government will retain until final completion and acceptance of all work covered by the job order, an amount estimated or approved by the Contracting Officer under paragraph (b) o…
  • DFARS 252.232-7003 Electronic Submission of Payment Requests and Receiving Reports.
    …de— (i) Payments for partial deliveries that have been accepted by the Government; (ii) Final cost or fee payments where amounts owed have been settled between the Government and the contractor; (iii) For purposes of subpart 32.9 only, a…
  • DFARS 252.236-7003 Payment for mobilization and preparatory work.
    …made does not reduce this item to zero, the balance will be paid to the Contractor in the final payment under the contract. (3) The retained percentage will be paid in accordance with the Payments to Contractor clause of this contract. (f…
  • DFARS 252.245-7005 Management and Reporting of Government Property.
    …ions, including laws and regulations involving export controls, host nation requirements, final governing standards, and government-to-government agreements. The Contractor's responsibility to comply with all applicable laws and regulations…
  • FAR 28.204-3 Irrevocable letter of credit.
    … subject to the Bonds statute, the later of— (A) One year following the expected date of final payment; (B) For performance bonds only, until completion of any warranty period; or (C) For payment bonds only, until resolution of all claim…
  • 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 52.228-14 Irrevocable Letter of Credit.
    …ter 31, subchapter III, Bonds, the later of— (A) One year following the expected date of final payment; (B) For performance bonds only, until completion of any warranty period; or (C) For payment bonds only, until resolution of all claim…
  • FAR 52.232-27 Prompt Payment for Construction Contracts.
    …d, 30 days after approval by the Contracting Officer for release to the Contractor. (ii) Final payments based on completion and acceptance of all work and presentation of release of all claims against the Government arising by virtue of th…
  • FAR 52.232-5 Payments Under Fixed-Price Construction Contracts.
    … and conditions of the subcontract; and (4) This certification is not to be construed as final acceptance of a subcontractor's performance. (Name) (Title) (Date) (d) Refund of unearned amounts. If the Contractor, after making a certifi…
  • FAR 52.232-10 Payments Under Fixed-Price Architect-Engineer Contracts.
    … excess amount to the Contractor. (c) Upon satisfactory completion by the Contractor and final acceptance by the Contracting Officer of all the work done by the Contractor under the “Statement of Architect-Engineer Services”, the Contracto…
  • FAR 52.248-2 Value Engineering—Architect-Engineer.
    …r shall be responsible for prestudy work assembly and shall edit, reproduce, and sign the final report and each VEP. All VEP's, even if submitted earlier as an individual submission, shall be contained in the final report. (d) VEP preparat…
  • FAR 32.001 Definitions.
    …de— (i) Payments for partial deliveries that have been accepted by the Government; (ii) Final cost or fee payments where amounts owed have been settled between the Government and the contractor; (iii) For purposes of subpart 32.9 only, a…
  • FAR 52.243-2 Changes—Cost-Reimbursement.
    … justify it, the Contracting Officer may receive and act upon a proposal submitted before final payment of the contract. (d) Failure to agree to any adjustment shall be a dispute under the Disputes clause. However, nothing in this clause s…
  • FAR 52.246-12 Inspection of Construction.
    …e work the Contracting Officer determines can be accepted separately. Acceptance shall be final and conclusive except for latent defects, fraud, gross mistakes amounting to fraud, or the Government's rights under any warranty or guarantee. …
  • FAR 52.248-1 Value Engineering.
    …or shall maintain records adequate to identify the first delivered unit for 3 years after final payment under this contract. (2) The Contracting Officer shall calculate the Contractor's share of concurrent contract savings by (i) subtracti…

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Source: eCFR, 48 CFR chapters 1 and 2 (GPO GovInfo bulk data) ↗. Rule changes in progress: FAR, DFARS. Terms: glossary.