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48 CFR · Federal Acquisition Regulation and Defense supplement

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90 sections with “general use equipment”: the first 40

  • FAR 22.404-2 General requirements.
    …wage determination(s) incorporated into the contract. (b) If the wage determination is a general wage determination or a project wage determination containing more than one rate schedule, the contracting officer shall either include only t…
  • FAR 2.101 Definitions.
    … assigned to identify specific agency offices, units, activities, or organizations by the General Services Administration for civilian agencies and by the Department of Defense for defense agencies. Adequate evidence means information suff…
  • FAR 31.205-42 Termination costs.
    Contract terminations generally give rise to the incurrence of costs or the need for special treatment of costs that would not have arisen had the contract not been terminated. The following cost principles peculiar to termination situation…
  • FAR 47.304-1 General.
    (a) The contracting officer shall determine f.o.b. terms generally on the basis of overall costs, giving due consideration to the criteria given in 47.304. (b) Solicitations shall specify whether offerors must submit offers f.o.b. origin, …
  • FAR 52.212-5 Contract Terms and Conditions Required To Implement Statutes or Executive Orders—Commercial Products and Commercial Services.
    …g Training to Prevent Human Trafficking (JAN 2025) (49 U.S.C. 40118(g)). (d) Comptroller General Examination of Record. The Contractor shall comply with the provisions of this paragraph (d) if this contract was awarded using other than sea…
  • FAR 52.222-48 Exemption From Application of the Service Contract Labor Standards to Contracts for Maintenance, Calibration, or Repair of Certain Equipment—Certification.
    …or subcontractor in the case of an exempt subcontractor) in substantial quantities to the general public in the course of normal business operations; (2) The services will be furnished at prices which are, or are based on, established cata…
  • FAR 52.222-51 Exemption From Application of the Service Contract Labor Standards to Contracts for Maintenance, Calibration, or Repair of Certain Equipment—Requirements.
    …nment purposes, and are sold or traded by the Contractor in substantial quantities to the general public in the course of normal business operations. (b) The services shall be furnished at prices which are, or are based on, established cat…
  • FAR 52.232-12 Advance Payments.
    …ether costs are properly allocable, allowable, and reasonable shall be in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, subject to any applicable subparts of part 31 of the Federal Acquisition Regulation. (d) Repayment to the G…
  • DFARS 252.225-7040 Contractor Personnel Supporting U.S. Armed Forces Deployed Outside the United States.
    …ble operations and have been afforded CAAF status through a letter of authorization. CAAF generally include all U.S. citizen and third-country national employees not normally residing within the operational area whose area of performance is…
  • DFARS 252.251-7001 Use of Interagency Fleet Management System (IFMS) vehicles and related services.
    …it requests for five or fewer vehicles and related services in writing to the appropriate General Services Administration (GSA) Regional Customer Service Bureau, Attention: Motor Equipment Activity. Submit requests for more than five vehicl…
  • FAR 7.403 General Services Administration assistance and OMB guidance.
    (a) When requested by an agency, the General Services Administration (GSA) will assist in rent, lease, or purchase decisions by providing information such as— (1) Pending price adjustments to Federal Supply Schedule contracts; (2) Recent …
  • FAR 12.301 Solicitation provisions and contract clauses for the acquisition of commercial products and commercial services.
    …te I when the head of the agency has waived the examination of records by the Comptroller General in accordance with 25.1001. (ii)(A) If the acquisition will use funds appropriated or otherwise made available by the American Recovery and R…
  • FAR 22.1003-4 Administrative limitations, variations, tolerances, and exemptions.
    …rnment purposes and are sold or traded by the contractor in substantial quantities to the general public in the course of normal business operations. (ii) The services will be furnished at prices which are, or are based on, established cat…
  • FAR 23.109 Solicitation provisions and contract clauses.
    (a) General. Insert the clause at 52.223-23, Sustainable Products and Services, in solicitations and contracts— (1) Unless— (i) The requiring activity has provided a written justification that it is not practicable to procure sustainable …
  • FAR 31.205-40 Special tooling and special test equipment costs.
    …pecial test equipment because with relatively minor expense they can be made suitable for general purpose use and have a value as such commensurate with their value as special tooling or special test equipment, the cost of adapting the item…
  • FAR 46.201 General.
    … approved by the activity responsible for technical requirements. (c) Although contracts generally make contractors responsible for performing inspection before tendering supplies to the Government, there are situations in which contracts …
  • FAR 52.203-7 Anti-Kickback Procedures.
    … with such prime contract, and (2) includes any person who offers to furnish or furnishes general supplies to the prime Contractor or a higher tier subcontractor. Subcontractor employee, as used in this clause, means any officer, partner, …
  • DFARS 236.570 Additional provisions and clauses.
    …aph (b)(2)(i) of this section) made necessary by the location or nature of the work. (A) Generally, allocate 60 percent of the lump sum price in paragraph (a) of the clause to the cost of mobilization. (B) Vary this percentage to reflect …
  • DFARS 237.7204 Format and clauses for educational service agreements.
    …claim by the Contractor, other than as provided by the Contractor's standard procedures. General Provisions Use the following clauses in educational service agreements: 1. FAR 52.202-1, Definitions, and add the following paragraphs (h) t…
  • DFARS 252.246-7001 Warranty of data.
    …uctions, SIE descriptive documentation, and SIE calibration procedures under MIL-T-31000, General Specification for Technical Data Packages, Amendment 1, or MIL-T-47500, General Specification for Technical Data Packages, Supp 1, or drawings…
  • FAR 13.201 General.
    (a) Agency heads are encouraged to delegate micro-purchase authority (see 1.603-3). (b) The Governmentwide commercial purchase card shall be the preferred method to purchase and to pay for micro-purchases (see 2.101). (c) Purchases at or …
  • FAR 15.404-4 Profit.
    (a) General. This subsection prescribes policies for establishing the profit or fee portion of the Government prenegotiation objective in price negotiations based on cost analysis. (1) Profit or fee prenegotiation objectives do not necessa…
  • FAR 17.106-1 General.
    (a) Method of contracting. The nature of the requirement should govern the selection of the method of contracting, since the multiyear procedure is compatible with sealed bidding, including two-step sealed bidding, and negotiation. (b) Typ…
  • FAR 17.401 General.
    Leader company contracting is an extraordinary acquisition technique that is limited to special circumstances and utilized only when its use is in accordance with agency procedures. A developer or sole producer of a product or system is des…
  • FAR 29.201 General.
    (a) Federal excise taxes are levied on the sale or use of particular supplies or services. Subtitle D of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954, Miscellaneous Excise Taxes, 26 U.S.C. 4041 et seq., and its implementing regulations, 26 CFR parts 4…
  • FAR 29.202 General exemptions.
    No Federal manufacturers' or special-fuels excise taxes are imposed in many contracting situations as, for example, when the supplies are for any of the following: (a) The exclusive use of any State or political subdivision, including the …
  • FAR 47.001 Definitions.
    …, used as a receipt of goods, as documentary evidence of title, for clearing customs, and generally used as a contract of carriage. (1) Commercial bill of lading (CBL), unlike the Government bill of lading, is not an accountable transporta…
  • FAR 52.212-3 Offeror Representations and Certifications—Commercial Products and Commercial Services.
    … (or subcontractor in the case of an exempt subcontract) in substantial quantities to the general public in the course of normal business operations; (ii) The services will be furnished at prices which are, or are based on, established cat…
  • FAR 52.222-50 Combating Trafficking in Persons.
    …ication. (1) The Contractor shall inform the Contracting Officer and the agency Inspector General immediately of— (i) Any credible information it receives from any source (including host country law enforcement) that alleges a Contractor e…
  • DFARS 213.201 General.
    (f) Notwithstanding FAR 13.201(f), apply the prohibition at 223.7402 to purchases at or below the micro-purchase threshold. (g) See PGI 213.201(g) for guidance on use of the higher micro-purchase thresholds prescribed in FAR 13.201(g) to s…
  • DFARS 217.7502 General.
    Departments and agencies— (a) May acquire replenishment parts concurrently with production of the end item. (b) Shall provide for full and open competition when fully adequate drawings and any other needed data are available with the righ…
  • DFARS 239.7408-1 General.
    (a) Special construction normally involves a common carrier giving a special service or facility related to the performance of the basic telecommunications service requirements. This may include— (1) Moving or relocating equipment; (2) P…
  • DFARS 239.7409 Special assembly.
    …r wiring of equipment to provide telecommunications services that cannot be provided with general use equipment. (b) Special assembly rates and charges shall be based on estimated costs. The contracting officer should negotiate special ass…
  • DFARS 252.227-7013 Rights in Technical Data—Other Than Commercial Products and Commercial Services.
    …the item or component must have been constructed or the process practiced. Workability is generally established when the item, component, or process has been analyzed or tested sufficiently to demonstrate to reasonable people skilled in the…
  • FAR 7.402 Acquisition methods.
    (a) Purchase method. (1) Generally, the purchase method is appropriate if the equipment will be used beyond the point in time when cumulative rental or leasing costs exceed the purchase costs. (2) Agencies should not rule out the purchase …
  • FAR 15.407-4 Should-cost review.
    (a) General. (1) Should-cost reviews are a specialized form of cost analysis. Should-cost reviews differ from traditional evaluation methods because they do not assume that a contractor's historical costs reflect efficient and economical op…
  • FAR 25.003 Definitions.
    … Internet at https://usitc.gov/tata/hts/index.htm. In particular, see the following: (1) General Note 3(c), Products Eligible for Special Tariff treatment. (2) General Note 17, Products of Countries Designated as Beneficiary Countries und…
  • FAR 31.001 Definitions.
    … for services rendered by employees to the contractor. Cost input means the cost, except general and administrative (G&A) expenses, which for contract costing purposes is allocable to the production of goods and services during a cost acco…
  • FAR 31.109 Advance agreements.
    …conversion; (12) Professional services (e.g., legal, accounting, and engineering); (13) General and administrative costs (e.g., corporate, division, or branch allocations) attributable to the general management, supervision, and conduct o…
  • FAR 46.706 Warranty terms and conditions.
    …s when preparing warranty terms and conditions: (1) Extent of contractor obligations (i) Generally, the contractor's obligations under warranties extend to all defects discovered during the warranty period, but do not include damage caused…

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.