48 CFR · Federal Acquisition Regulation and Defense supplement
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82 sections with “lot”: the first 40
- DFARS 252.232-7018 Progress Payments—Multiple Lots.As prescribed in 232.502-4-70(c), use the following clause: Progress Payments—Multiple Lots (MAY 2023) (a) Definitions. As used in this clause— Lot means one or more fixed-price deliverable line items or deliverable subline items represe…
- DFARS 252.270-7000 Pilot Program to Incentivize Contracting with Employee-Owned Businesses—Representation.As prescribed in 270.105(a), use the following provision: Pilot Program To Incentivize Contracting With Employee-Owned Businesses—Representation (NOV 2024) (a) Definition. As used in this provision, qualified business has the meaning give…
- DFARS 252.270-7001 Pilot Program to Incentivize Contracting with Employee-Owned Businesses—Subcontracting Certification.As prescribed in 270.105(b), use the following provision: Pilot Program To Incentivize Contracting With Employee-Owned Businesses—Subcontracting Certification (NOV 2024) (a) Definition. As used in this provision, qualified business has th…
- DFARS 252.270-7002 Pilot Program to Incentivize Contracting with Employee-Owned Businesses.As prescribed in 270.105(c), use the following clause: Pilot Program To Incentivize Contracting With Employee-Owned Businesses (NOV 2024) (a) Definition. As used in this clause— Qualified business means an S corporation as defined in 26 …
- DFARS 225.7002 Restrictions on food, clothing, fabrics, hand or measuring tools, and flags.
- FAR 52.232-22 Limitation of Funds.…The Schedule specifies the amount presently available for payment by the Government and allotted to this contract, the items covered, the Government's share of the cost if this is a cost-sharing contract, and the period of performance it is…
- DFARS 252.211-7003 Item Unique Identification and Valuation.…he enterprise identifier; or (2) For items that are serialized within the original part, lot, or batch number, the linking together of the unique identifier data elements in order of the issuing agency code; enterprise identifier; original…
- DFARS 252.225-7012 Preference for Certain Domestic Commodities.… have been grown, reprocessed, reused, or produced in the United States: (1) Food. (2) Clothing and the materials and components thereof, other than sensors, electronics, or other items added to, and not normally associated with, clothing…
- DFARS 252.232-7007 Limitation of Government's obligation.…er insert after negotiations] of the total price is presently available for payment and allotted to this contract. An allotment schedule is set forth in paragraph (j) of this clause. (b) For item(s) identified in paragraph (a) of this clau…
- DFARS 252.237-7012 Instruction to offerors (count-of-articles).…unt-of-Articles) (DEC 1991) (a) The Offeror shall include unit prices for each item in a lot. Unit prices shall include all costs to the Government of providing the services, including pickup and delivery charges. (b) Failure to offer on …
- DFARS 270.105 Solicitation provisions and contract clause.(a) Use the provision at 252.270-7000, Pilot Program to Incentivize Contracting with Employee-Owned Businesses—Representation, in solicitations, including solicitations using FAR part 12 procedures for the acquisition of commercial products…
- FAR 2.101 Definitions.… First article means a preproduction model, initial production sample, test sample, first lot, pilot lot, or pilot models. First article testing means testing and evaluating the first article for conformance with specified contract require…
- FAR 32.704 Limitation of cost or funds.… contractor is approaching the estimated cost of the contract or the limit of the funds allotted, shall promptly obtain funding and programming information pertinent to the contract's continuation and notify the contractor in writing that— …
- DFARS 204.7103-1 Criteria for establishing.…upply or service which must be approved. If the test model or first article consists of a lot composed of a mixture of items, a single line item or subline item may be used for the lot. (f) If a supply or service involves ancillary functio…
- DFARS 225.7002-1 Restrictions.…have been grown, reprocessed, reused, or produced in the United States: (i) Food. (ii) Clothing and the materials and components thereof, other than sensors, electronics, or other items added to, and not normally associated with, clothing…
- DFARS 252.225-7040 Contractor Personnel Supporting U.S. Armed Forces Deployed Outside the United States.…nt (or, for non-CAAF, at the end of their employment under this contract). (i) Military clothing and protective equipment. (1) Contractor personnel are prohibited from wearing military clothing unless specifically authorized in writing by …
- FAR 32.1004 Procedures.…price of $1,000,000 each, has 10 deliverable items-the separate planes. A line item for 1 lot of 10 airplanes, with a lot price of $10,000,000, has only one deliverable item-the lot.) (a) Establishing performance bases. (1) The basis for p…
- FAR 52.225-19 Contractor Personnel in a Designated Operational Area or Supporting a Diplomatic or Consular Mission Outside the United States.…or equipment necessary to perform the contract in the area of performance. (k) Military clothing and protective equipment. (1) Contractor personnel are prohibited from wearing military clothing unless specifically authorized by the Combata…
- DFARS 205.301 General.…wards exceeding the simplified acquisition threshold that are for the acquisition of any clothing, fiber, yarn, or fabric items described in 225.7002-1(a)(1)(ii) through (x), if— (A) The Secretary concerned has determined that domestic ite…
- DFARS 212.301 Solicitation provisions and contract clauses for the acquisition of commercial products and commercial services.…. (xxii) Part 270—Defense Contracting Programs. (A) Use the provision at 252.270-7000, Pilot Program to Incentivize Contracting with Employee-Owned Businesses—Representation, as prescribed at 270.105(a) to comply with section 874 of the Na…
- DFARS 212.371 Inapplicability of certain provisions and clauses to contracts for the acquisition of commercially available off-the-shelf items.…205-7000, Provision of Information to Cooperative Agreement Holders. (h) 252.270-7000, Pilot Program to Incentivize Contracting with Employee-Owned Businesses—Representation. (i) 252.270-7001, Pilot Program to Incentivize Contracting with…
- DFARS 232.704-70 Incrementally funded fixed-price contracts.…er shall promptly provide written notice to the contractor that the Government is— (1) Allotting additional funds for continued performance and increasing the Government's limitation of obligation in a specified amount; (2) Terminating th…
- DFARS 246.702-70 Definitions.… collective tangible items produced by the enterprise, or each item of a particular part, lot, or batch number is assigned a unique serial number within that part, lot, or batch number assignment within the enterprise identifier. The enterp…
- DFARS 252.219-7003 Small Business Subcontracting Plan (DoD Contracts).…ess subcontracting goal (section 8025 of Pub. L. 108-87). (c) A mentor firm, under the Pilot Mentor-Protégé Program established under section 831 of Public Law 101-510, as amended, may count toward its small disadvantaged business goal, su…
- DFARS 252.246-7006 Warranty Tracking of Serialized Items.… collective tangible items produced by the enterprise, or each item of a particular part, lot, or batch number is assigned a unique serial number within that part, lot, or batch number assignment within the enterprise identifier. The enterp…
- FAR 4.1003 Establishing line items.…line item for each item requiring a separate approval. If the first article consists of a lot composed of a mixture of items that will be approved as a single lot, a single line item may be used. (b) Single unit price or total price. (c) …
- FAR 7.105 Contents of written acquisition plans.…uisition descriptions) to be used in the acquisition. (8) Priorities, allocations, and allotments. When urgency of the requirement dictates a particularly short delivery or performance schedule, certain priorities may apply. If so, specify…
- FAR 14.408-6 Equal low bids.…ly eligible after application of paragraph (a) above, award shall be made by a drawing by lot limited to those bidders. If time permits, the bidders involved shall be given an opportunity to attend the drawing. The drawing shall be witnesse…
- FAR 15.408 Solicitation provisions and contract clauses.…ning program, and any identifiable nonrecurring costs such as initial rework, spoilage, pilot runs, etc. In the event the amounts are not segregated in or otherwise available from your records, enter in this column your best estimates. Expl…
- FAR 19.202-1 Encouraging small business participation in acquisitions.…roposed acquisitions of supplies and services (except construction) into reasonably small lots (not less than economic production runs) to permit offers on quantities less than the total requirement. (b) Plan acquisitions such that, if pra…
- FAR 47.501 Definitions.…his subpart— Dry bulk carrier means a vessel used primarily for the carriage of shipload lots of homogeneous unmarked nonliquid cargoes such as grain, coal, cement, and lumber. Dry cargo liner means a vessel used for the carriage of heter…
- FAR 52.209-3 First Article Approval—Contractor Testing.… [Contracting Officer shall insert details] (a) The Contractor shall test __ unit(s) of Lot/Item __ as specified in this contract. At least __ calendar days before the beginning of first article tests, the Contractor shall notify the Cont…
- FAR 52.209-4 First Article Approval—Government Testing.…ontracting Officer shall insert details] (a) The Contractor shall deliver __ units(s) of Lot/Item __ within __ calendar days from the date of this contract to the Government at ___ [insert name and address of the testing facility] for firs…
- FAR 52.243-2 Changes—Cost-Reimbursement.…stimated cost of this contract and, if this contract is incrementally funded, the funds allotted for the performance of this contract, shall not be increased or considered to be increased except by specific written modification of the contr…
- FAR 52.246-17 Warranty of Supplies of a Noncomplex Nature.…tive of the quantity on which warranty action is proposed; and (D) Need not use the same lot size as on original inspection or reconstitute the original inspection lots. (ii) Within a reasonable time after notice of any breach of the warr…
- DFARS 225.7002-2 Exceptions.…n PSG 83, Textile/leather/furs/apparel/findings/tents/flags, or Federal Supply Group 84, Clothing, Individual Equipment and Insignia; (iii) Upholstered seats (whether for household, office, or other use); and (iv) Parachutes (Product or S…
- DFARS 225.7023-1 Definitions.…tective eyewear; (v) Surgical and isolation gowns and head and foot coverings; or (vi) Clothing; and (vii) The materials and components thereof, other than sensors, electronics, or other items added to and not normally associated with su…
- DFARS 232.502-4-70 Additional clauses.…a small business concern. (c) Use the clause at 252.232-7018, Progress Payments—Multiple Lots, to authorize separate progress payment requests for multiple lots.
- DFARS 252.225-7061 Restriction on the Acquisition of Personal Protective Equipment and Certain Other Items from Non-Allied Foreign Nations.…tective eyewear; (v) Surgical and isolation gowns and head and foot coverings; or (vi) Clothing; and (vii) The materials and components thereof, other than sensors, electronics, or other items added to and not normally associated with su…
- DFARS 252.237-7013 Instruction to offerors (bulk weight).…stated in the solicitation. (c) Award generally will be made to a single offeror for all lots. However, the Contracting Officer may award by individual lot when it is more advantageous to the Government. (d) Prospective offerors may inspe…
FAR (chapter 1)
- Part 1 Federal Acquisition Regulations System 58 sections
- Part 2 Definitions of Words and Terms 3 sections
- Part 3 Improper Business Practices and Personal Conflicts of Interest 98 sections
- Part 4 Administrative and Information Matters 116 sections
- Part 5 Publicizing Contract Actions 34 sections
- Part 6 Competition Requirements 34 sections
- Part 7 Acquisition Planning 34 sections
- Part 8 Required Sources of Supplies and Services 67 sections
- Part 9 Contractor Qualifications 106 sections
- Part 10 Market Research 4 sections
- Part 11 Describing Agency Needs 33 sections
- Part 12 Acquisition of Commercial Products and Commercial Services 38 sections
- Part 13 Simplified Acquisition Procedures 49 sections
- Part 14 Sealed Bidding 82 sections
- Part 15 Contracting by Negotiation 81 sections
- Part 16 Types of Contracts 74 sections
- Part 17 Special Contracting Methods 50 sections
- Part 18 Emergency Acquisitions 34 sections
- Part 19 Small Business Programs 126 sections
- Part 22 Application of Labor Laws to Government Acquisitions 205 sections
- Part 23 Environment, Sustainable Acquisition, and Material Safety 38 sections
- Part 24 Protection of Privacy and Freedom of Information 10 sections
- Part 25 Foreign Acquisition 81 sections
- Part 26 Other Socioeconomic Programs 36 sections
- Part 27 Patents, Data, and Copyrights 59 sections
- Part 28 Bonds and Insurance 61 sections
- Part 29 Taxes 23 sections
- Part 30 Cost Accounting Standards Administration 30 sections
- Part 31 Contract Cost Principles and Procedures 87 sections
- Part 32 Contract Financing 175 sections
- Part 33 Protests, Disputes, and Appeals 23 sections
- Part 34 Major System Acquisition 20 sections
- Part 35 Research and Development Contracting 25 sections
- Part 36 Construction and Architect-engineer Contracts 81 sections
- Part 37 Service Contracting 46 sections
- Part 38 Federal Supply Schedule Contracting 3 sections
- Part 39 Acquisition of Information Technology 14 sections
- Part 40 Information Security and Supply Chain Security 12 sections
- Part 41 Acquisition of Utility Services 17 sections
- Part 42 Contract Administration and Audit Services 84 sections
- Part 43 Contract Modifications 14 sections
- Part 44 Subcontracting Policies and Procedures 24 sections
- Part 45 Government Property 33 sections
- Part 46 Quality Assurance 60 sections
- Part 47 Transportation 106 sections
- Part 48 Value Engineering 13 sections
- Part 49 Termination of Contracts 108 sections
- Part 50 Extraordinary Contractual Actions and the Safety Act 34 sections
- Part 51 Use of Government Sources by Contractors 15 sections
- Part 52 Solicitation Provisions and Contract Clauses 680 sections
- Part 53 Forms 61 sections
DFARS (chapter 2, Defense)
- Part 201 Federal Acquisition Regulations System 24 sections
- Part 202 Definitions of Words and Terms 1 sections
- Part 203 Improper Business Practices and Personal Conflicts of Interest 28 sections
- Part 204 Administrative and Information Matters 76 sections
- Part 205 Publicizing Contract Actions 11 sections
- Part 206 Competition Requirements 20 sections
- Part 207 Acquisition Planning 22 sections
- Part 208 Required Sources of Supplies and Services 31 sections
- Part 209 Contractor Qualifications 55 sections
- Part 210 Market Research 2 sections
- Part 211 Describing Agency Needs 22 sections
- Part 212 Acquisition of Commercial Products and Commercial Services 24 sections
- Part 213 Simplified Acquisition Procedures 23 sections
- Part 214 Sealed Bidding 14 sections
- Part 215 Contracting by Negotiation 66 sections
- Part 216 Types of Contracts 36 sections
- Part 217 Special Contracting Methods 64 sections
- Part 218 Emergency Acquisitions 7 sections
- Part 219 Small Business Programs 47 sections
- Part 222 Application of Labor Laws to Government Acquisitions 56 sections
- Part 223 Environment, Sustainable Acquisition, and Material Safety 34 sections
- Part 224 Protection of Privacy and Freedom of Information 2 sections
- Part 225 Foreign Acquisition 251 sections
- Part 226 Other Socioeconomic Programs 14 sections
- Part 227 Patents, Data, and Copyrights 99 sections
- Part 228 Bonds and Insurance 17 sections
- Part 229 Taxes 9 sections
- Part 230 Cost Accounting Standards Administration 2 sections
- Part 231 Contract Cost Principles and Procedures 13 sections
- Part 232 Contract Financing 74 sections
- Part 233 Protests, Disputes, and Appeals 8 sections
- Part 234 Major System Acquisition 13 sections
- Part 235 Research and Development Contracting 16 sections
- Part 236 Construction and Architect-engineer Contracts 25 sections
- Part 237 Service Contracting 67 sections
- Part 239 Acquisition of Information Technology 38 sections
- Part 241 Acquisition of Utility Services 8 sections
- Part 242 Contract Administration and Audit Services 40 sections
- Part 243 Contract Modifications 18 sections
- Part 244 Subcontracting Policies and Procedures 13 sections
- Part 245 Government Property 23 sections
- Part 246 Quality Assurance 39 sections
- Part 247 Transportation 27 sections
- Part 249 Termination of Contracts 14 sections
- Part 250 Extraordinary Contractual Actions and the Safety Act 16 sections
- Part 251 Use of Government Sources by Contractors 5 sections
- Part 252 Solicitation Provisions and Contract Clauses 405 sections
- Part 253 Forms 10 sections
- Part 270 Defense Contracting Programs 7 sections
Source: eCFR, 48 CFR chapters 1 and 2 (GPO GovInfo bulk data) ↗. Rule changes in progress: FAR, DFARS. Terms: glossary.