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48 CFR · Federal Acquisition Regulation and Defense supplement

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44 sections with “individual administrative contracting officer”: the first 40

  • FAR 42.705-1 Contracting officer determination procedure.
    …nation, assisted, as required, by the administrative contracting officers assigned to the individual business units. Negotiations may be conducted on a coordinated or centralized basis, depending upon the degree of centralization within the…
  • DFARS 242.705-1 Contracting officer determination procedure.
    …pplicability and responsibility. (1) The corporate administrative contracting officer and individual administrative contracting officers shall jointly decide how to conduct negotiations. Follow the procedures at PGI 242.705-1(a)(1) when neg…
  • DFARS 252.219-7003 Small Business Subcontracting Plan (DoD Contracts).
    …finition. As used in this clause— Summary Subcontract Report (SSR) Coordinator means the individual who is registered in the Electronic Subcontracting Reporting System (eSRS) at the Department of Defense level and is responsible for acknow…
  • DFARS 252.201-7000 Contracting officer's representative.
    … Representative (DEC 1991) (a) Definition. Contracting officer's representative means an individual designated in accordance with subsection 201.602-2 of the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement and authorized in writing by th…
  • FAR 2.101 Definitions.
    …operation or maintenance of the system. Affiliates means associated business concerns or individuals if, directly or indirectly either one controls or can control the other; or third party controls or can control both, except as follows: …
  • FAR 3.104-7 Violations or possible violations.
    …documentation supporting a determination that there is no impact on the procurement to an individual designated in accordance with agency procedures. (i) If that individual concurs, the contracting officer may proceed with the procurement.…
  • FAR 13.303-3 Preparation of BPAs.
    … BPA. (3) Purchase limitation. A statement that specifies the dollar limitation for each individual purchase under the BPA (see 13.303-5(b)). (4) Individuals authorized to purchase under the BPA. A statement that a list of individuals aut…
  • FAR 52.212-3 Offeror Representations and Certifications—Commercial Products and Commercial Services.
    … defined at 13 CFR 124.103) and economically disadvantaged (as defined at 13 CFR 124.104) individuals who are citizens of the United States; and (ii) Each individual claiming economic disadvantage has a net worth not exceeding the threshol…
  • FAR 52.222-55 Minimum Wages for Contractor Workers Under Executive Order 14026.
    …equirements (Construction) statute (40 U.S.C. chapter 31, subchapter IV); (B) Other than individuals employed in a bona fide executive, administrative, or professional capacity, as those terms are defined in 29 CFR part 541; and (C) Regar…
  • FAR 22.1003-4 Administrative limitations, variations, tolerances, and exemptions.
    … the revenue therefrom. (2) Any contract entered into by the U.S. Postal Service with an individual owner-operator for mail service if it is not contemplated at the time the contract is made that the owner-operator will hire any service em…
  • FAR 52.219-1 Small Business Program Representations.
    … defined at 13 CFR 124.103) and economically disadvantaged (as defined at 13 CFR 124.104) individuals who are citizens of the United States, and (ii) Each individual claiming economic disadvantage has a net worth not exceeding the threshol…
  • DFARS 219.702-70 Statutory requirements for the Test Program for Negotiation of Comprehensive Small Business Subcontracting Plans.
    …. (2) Test Program participants use their comprehensive subcontracting plans, in lieu of individual subcontracting plans, when performing any DoD contract or subcontract that requires a subcontracting plan. (d) Assessment. The contracting…
  • FAR 42.1503 Procedures.
    … (ii) Identify and assign past performance evaluation roles and responsibilities to those individuals responsible for preparing and reviewing interim evaluations, if prepared, and final evaluations (e.g., contracting officers, contracting o…
  • FAR 52.232-16 Progress Payments.
    …ry contracts. The Contractor shall account for and submit progress payment requests under individual orders as if the order constituted a separate contract, unless otherwise specified in this contract. (End of clause) Alternate I (MAR 200…
  • FAR 3.104-1 Definitions.
    …s rendered. Compensation is indirectly provided if it is paid to an entity other than the individual, specifically in exchange for services provided by the individual. Contractor bid or proposal information means any of the following infor…
  • FAR 7.503 Policy.
    … intelligence and counter-intelligence operations. (9) The selection or non-selection of individuals for Federal Government employment, including the interviewing of individuals for employment. (10) The approval of position descriptions a…
  • FAR 8.406-4 Termination for cause.
    (a)(1) An ordering activity contracting officer may terminate individual orders for cause. Termination for cause shall comply with FAR 12.403, and may include charging the contractor with excess costs resulting from repurchase. (2) The sch…
  • FAR 13.203 Purchase guidelines.
    …es may be awarded without soliciting competitive quotations if the contracting officer or individual appointed in accordance with 1.603-3(b) considers the price to be reasonable. (3) The administrative cost of verifying the reasonableness …
  • FAR 15.404-4 Profit.
    …, small business concerns owned and controlled by socially and economically disadvantaged individuals, women-owned small business concerns, veteran-owned, HUBZone, service-disabled veteran-owned small business concerns, sheltered workshops …
  • FAR 52.222-41 Service Contract Labor Standards.
    … at less than the predetermined rate for the work they perform when they are employed and individually registered in a bona fide apprenticeship program registered with a State Apprenticeship Agency which is recognized by the U.S. Department…
  • FAR 7.107-2 Consolidation.
    …t. (d) Benefits. (1) Benefits that are quantifiable in dollar amounts are substantial if individually, in combination, or in the aggregate the anticipated financial benefits are equivalent to— (i) Ten percent of the estimated contract or …
  • FAR 7.107-3 Bundling.
    …e times, or (5) Better terms and conditions. (d) Benefits are measurably substantial if individually, in combination, or in the aggregate the anticipated financial benefits are equivalent to— (1) Ten percent of the estimated contract or …
  • FAR 8.402 General.
    …as open market items) to a Federal Supply Schedule blanket purchase agreement (BPA) or an individual task or delivery order only if— (1) All applicable acquisition regulations pertaining to the purchase of the items not on the Federal Supp…
  • FAR 14.201-8 Price-related factors.
    … the Government for issuing and administering each contract awarded under a solicitation. Individual awards shall be for the items or combinations of items that result in the lowest aggregate cost to the Government, including the assumed ad…
  • FAR 15.203 Requests for proposals.
    … use of an oral solicitation; (iii) Sources solicited, including the date, time, name of individuals contacted, and prices offered; and (iv) The solicitation number provided to the prospective offerors. (2) The information furnished to p…
  • FAR 16.703 Basic ordering agreements.
    …sic ordering agreement shall be changed only by modifying the agreement itself and not by individual orders issued under it. Modifying a basic ordering agreement shall not retroactively affect orders previously issued under it. (d) Orders.…
  • FAR 22.001 Definitions.
    …bor, Washington, DC 20210 or an authorized representative. Agency labor advisor means an individual responsible for advising contracting agency officials on Federal contract labor matters. e98 means the Department of Labor's approved elec…
  • FAR 31.205-47 Costs related to legal and other proceedings.
    …se provided for in the contract or subcontract. (7) Representation of, or assistance to, individuals, groups, or legal entities which the contractor or subcontractor is not legally bound to provide, arising from an action where the partici…
  • FAR 31.603 Requirements.
    … date of the contract. (b) Agencies are not expected to place additional restrictions on individual items of cost. However, under 10 U.S.C. 3744, 41 U.S.C. 4304, 31 U.S.C. 3730, and 41 U.S.C. 4310, the following costs are unallowable: (1)…
  • FAR 42.302 Contract administration functions.
    … being extended shall be provided to the contracting office. Subsequent extensions on any individual contract shall be authorized only upon concurrence of the contracting office. (65) Accomplish administrative closeout procedures (see 4.80…
  • FAR 42.1502 Policy.
    …ct evaluation (e.g., when the scope of the basic contract is very broad and the nature of individual orders could be significantly different). This evaluation need not consider the requirements under paragraph (g) of this section unless the…
  • FAR 46.407 Nonconforming supplies or services.
    …withheld. For services, the contracting officer can consider identifying the value of the individual work requirements or tasks (subdivisions) that may be subject to price or fee reduction. This value may be used to determine an equitable a…
  • FAR 48.104-2 Sharing acquisition savings.
    …ring period. In deciding whether or not to use the more convenient lump-sum method for an individual VECP, the contracting officer shall consider— (i) The accuracy with which the number of items to be delivered during the sharing period ca…
  • FAR 48.104-4 Sharing alternative—no-cost settlement method.
    …ll collateral savings. Use of this method must be by mutual agreement of both parties for individual VECPs.
  • FAR 52.215-19 Notification of Ownership Changes.
    … designated representative ready access to the records upon request; (3) Ensure that all individual and grouped assets, their capitalized values, accumulated depreciation or amortization, and remaining useful lives are identified accuratel…
  • FAR 52.232-7 Payments under Time-and-Materials and Labor-Hour Contracts.
    …reimbursed at the hourly rate in the schedule) by evidence of actual payment and by— (i) Individual daily job timekeeping records; (ii) Records that verify the employees meet the qualifications for the labor categories specified in the co…
  • FAR 52.236-19 Organization and Direction of the Work.
    …be under the full-time resident direction of: (1) the Contractor, if the Contractor is an individual; (2) one or more principal partners, if the Contractor is a partnership; or (3) one or more senior officers, if Contractor is a corporation…
  • FAR 52.243-7 Notification of Changes.
    …he conduct regarded as a change; (2) The name, function, and activity of each Government individual and Contractor official or employee involved in or knowledgeable about such conduct; (3) The identification of any documents and the subst…
  • DFARS 202.101 Definitions.
    …ting activities are listed at PGI 202.101. Contracting officer's representative means an individual designated and authorized in writing by the contracting officer to perform specific technical or administrative functions. Contractor-appr…
  • DFARS 237.7204 Format and clauses for educational service agreements.
    …ime) related to student research. (f) Normally, the Contractor shall not directly charge individual students for application fees or any other fee chargeable to this agreement. However, if the Contractor's standard procedures require payme…

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