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48 CFR · Federal Acquisition Regulation and Defense supplement

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58 sections with “losing contract”: the first 40

  • FAR 4.804-5 Procedures for closing out contract files.
    …) Termination docket is completed; (12) Contract audit is completed; (13) Contractor's closing statement is completed; (14) Contractor's final invoice has been submitted; and (15) Contract funds review is completed and excess funds deob…
  • FAR 4.804-1 Closeout by the office administering the contract.
    (a) Except as provided in paragraph (c) of this section, time standards for closing out contract files are as follows: (1) Files for contracts using simplified acquisition procedures should be considered closed when the contracting officer…
  • DFARS 252.227-7038 Patent Rights—Ownership by the Contractor (Large Business).
    …ubject inventions; and (B) Records that show that the procedures for identifying and disclosing the inventions are followed; and (iii) Upon request, furnish the Contracting Officer a description of these procedures for evaluation and for …
  • FAR 3.104-4 Disclosure, protection, and marking of contractor bid or proposal information and source selection information.
    … in 27.404-5. (e) This section does not restrict or prohibit— (1) A contractor from disclosing its own bid or proposal information or the recipient from receiving that information. During reverse auctions, agencies may reveal to all offer…
  • FAR 15.406-2 Certificate of current cost or pricing data.
    …er and contractor are encouraged to reach a prior agreement on criteria for establishing closing or cutoff dates when appropriate in order to minimize delays associated with proposal updates. Closing or cutoff dates should be included as pa…
  • FAR 52.212-4 Contract Terms and Conditions—Commercial Products and Commercial Services.
    …er for acceptance materials and services required to be replaced or corrected without disclosing the former requirement for replacement or correction, and, when required, shall disclose the corrective action taken. [Insert portion of labor …
  • DFARS 204.804 Closeout of contract files.
    …ake appropriate steps if a backlog occurs. For guidance on the planning and execution of closing out such contracts, see PGI 207.105(b)(20)(C)(8) and PGI 225.373(e). (3)(i) In accordance with section 836 of the National Defense Authorizati…
  • DFARS 252.225-7040 Contractor Personnel Supporting U.S. Armed Forces Deployed Outside the United States.
    … personnel relating to their in-theater arrival date and their duty location, to include closing out the deployment with their proper status (e.g., mission complete, killed, wounded) shall be annotated within the SPOT database in accordance…
  • FAR 31.205-6 Compensation for personal services.
    …nallowable if the termination of employment of the foreign national is the result of the closing of, or the curtailment of activities at, a United States facility in that country at the request of the government of that country; this does n…
  • FAR 45.106 Transferring accountability.
    …act (see 45.102). Such transfers shall be documented by modifications to both gaining and losing contracts. Once transferred, all property shall be considered Government-furnished property to the gaining contract. The warranties of suitabil…
  • FAR 52.215-1 Instructions to Offerors—Competitive Acquisition.
    …rmation. Proposal modification is a change made to a proposal before the solicitation's closing date and time, or made in response to an amendment, or made to correct a mistake at any time before award. Proposal revision is a change to a …
  • FAR 52.245-1 Government Property.
    …the Contractor to credit the costs of Contractor-acquired property (material only) to the losing contract, and debit the gaining contract with the corresponding cost, when such material is needed for use on another contract. Property no lon…
  • FAR 52.246-2 Inspection of Supplies—Fixed-Price.
    …The Contractor shall not tender for acceptance corrected or rejected supplies without disclosing the former rejection or requirement for correction, and, when required, shall disclose the corrective action taken. (h) If the Contractor fail…
  • FAR 15.001 Definitions.
    …ble level. Proposal modification is a change made to a proposal before the solicitation closing date and time, or made in response to an amendment, or made to correct a mistake at any time before award. Proposal revision is a change to a …
  • FAR 22.404-5 Expiration of project wage determinations.
    …e wage rate information to all prospective offerors that were sent a solicitation if the closing date for receipt of proposals has not yet occurred, or to all offerors that have not been eliminated from the competition if the closing date h…
  • FAR 52.227-10 Filing of Patent Applications—Classified Subject Matter.
    …) (a) Before filing or causing to be filed a patent application in the United States disclosing any subject matter of this contract classified Secret or higher, the Contractor shall, citing the 30-day provision below, transmit the proposed…
  • FAR 52.227-13 Patent Rights—Ownership by the Government.
    …ctice of subject inventions, and records that show the procedures for identifying and disclosing subject inventions are followed. Upon request, the Contractor shall furnish the Contracting Officer a description of these procedures for evalu…
  • FAR 52.246-8 Inspection of Research and Development—Cost-Reimbursement.
    …tor shall not tender for acceptance work required to be replaced or corrected without disclosing the former requirement for replacement or correction, and, when required, shall disclose the corrective action taken. (g)(1) If the Contractor…
  • FAR 52.247-51 Evaluation of Export Offers.
    …ssion, or other appropriate regulatory authorities as of the date of bid opening (or the closing date specified for receipt of offers) and which will be effective for the date of the expected initial shipment will be used in the evaluation …
  • DFARS 232.072-2 Appropriate information.
    …tract performance. (2) Summary history of the contractor and its principal managers, disclosing any previous insolvencies—corporate or personal, and describing its products or services. (3) Statement of all affiliations disclosing— (i) M…
  • FAR 3.104-2 General.
    (a) This section implements 41 U.S.C. chapter 21, Restrictions on Obtaining and Disclosing Certain Information. Agency supplementation of 3.104, including specific definitions to identify individuals who occupy positions specified in 3.104-…
  • FAR 3.104-3 Statutory and related prohibitions, restrictions, and requirements.
    (a) Prohibition on disclosing procurement information (41 U.S.C. 2102). (1) A person described in paragraph (a)(2) of this subsection must not, other than as provided by law, knowingly disclose contractor bid or proposal information or sour…
  • FAR 3.903 Policy.
    …charging, demoting, or otherwise discriminating against an employee as a reprisal for disclosing, to any of the entities listed at paragraph (b) of this section, information that the employee reasonably believes is— (i) Evidence of gross m…
  • FAR 5.207 Preparation and transmittal of synopses.
    …. (6) Contracting Office Address. (7) Subject. (8) Proposed Solicitation Number. (9) Closing Response Date. (10) Contact Point or Contracting Officer. (11) Contract Award and Solicitation Number. (12) Contract Award Dollar Amount. (…
  • FAR 9.407-3 Procedures.
    …ties shall be described in terms sufficient to place the contractor on notice without disclosing the Government's evidence; (2) That the suspension is for a temporary period pending the completion of an investigation and such legal proceed…
  • FAR 14.407-4 Mistakes after award.
    …ed, the manner by which the supplies or services will otherwise be acquired; and (G) Disclosing the status of performance and payments under the contract, including contemplated performance and payments. (iii) A signed copy of the bid inv…
  • FAR 15.204-2 Part I—The Schedule.
    …information must be submitted. (ii) Solicitation number. (iii) Date of issuance. (iv) Closing date and time. (v) Number of pages. (vi) Requisition or other purchase authority. (vii) Brief description of item or service. (viii) Requir…
  • FAR 15.206 Amending the solicitation.
    …ber (and electronic or facsimile address, if appropriate). (7) Revision to solicitation closing date, if applicable.
  • FAR 15.207 Handling proposals and information.
    … of source selection information (41 U.S.C. chapter 21, Restrictions on Obtaining and Disclosing Certain Information)). Information received in response to an RFI shall be safeguarded adequately from unauthorized disclosure. (c) If any por…
  • FAR 15.208 Submission, modification, revision, and withdrawal of proposals.
    … solicitation, and urgent Government requirements preclude amendment of the solicitation closing date, the time specified for receipt of proposals will be deemed to be extended to the same time of day specified in the solicitation on the fi…
  • FAR 22.406-8 Investigations.
    …Department of Labor files. (4) Obtain permission from the Department of Labor before disclosing material obtained from Labor Department files, other than computations of back wages and liquidated damages and summaries of back wages due, to…
  • FAR 22.1009-3 All possible places of performance identified.
    …bsequently learns of any potential offerors in previously unidentified places before the closing date for submission of offers, the contracting officer shall— (1) Obtain wage determinations for the additional places of performance and amen…
  • FAR 22.1009-4 All possible places of performance not identified.
    …-49, Service Contract Labor Standards-Place of Performance Unknown (see 22.1006(f)). The closing date for receipt of offerors' requests for wage determinations for additional possible places of performance should allow reasonable time for p…
  • FAR 27.305-4 Protection of invention disclosures.
    …rts to withhold from disclosure to the public for a reasonable time other information disclosing a subject invention. This information includes any data delivered pursuant to contract requirements provided that the contractor notifies the a…
  • FAR 29.304 Matters requiring special consideration.
    …s to submit to contracting officers by November 30 of each year a certified statement disclosing North Carolina State and local sales and use taxes paid during the 12-month period that ended the preceding September 30. The contracting offic…
  • FAR 31.205-1 Public relations and advertising costs.
    …he public informed on matters of public concern such as notice of contract awards, plant closings or openings, employee layoffs or rehires, financial information, etc. (3) Costs of participation in community service activities (e.g., blood…
  • FAR 31.205-35 Relocation costs.
    … transition period for the employee and members of the employee's immediate family. (3) Closing costs incident to the disposition of the actual residence owned by the employee when notified of the transfer (e.g., brokerage fees, legal fees…
  • FAR 31.603 Requirements.
    …ountry if the termination of the employment of the foreign national is the result of the closing of, or curtailment of activities at, a United States facility in that country at the request of the government of that country. (15) Unless an…
  • FAR 32.411 Agreement for special account at a financial institution.
    …ncial institution shall preserve the books and records for a period of 6 years after the closing of this Special Account. (d) In the event of the service of any writ of attachment, levy of execution, or commencement of garnishment proceedi…
  • FAR 33.101 Definitions.
    …ministrative forum, the last day is a day on which weather or other conditions cause the closing of the forum for all or part of the day, in which event the next day on which the appropriate administrative forum is open is included. Filed …

FAR (chapter 1)

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