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18 sections with “lowest evaluated price”

  • FAR 15.101-2 Lowest price technically acceptable source selection process.
    (a) The lowest price technically acceptable source selection process is appropriate when best value is expected to result from selection of the technically acceptable proposal with the lowest evaluated price. (b) When using the lowest pric…
  • FAR 9.103 Policy.
    …S.C. 637) applies, see subpart 19.8.) (c) The award of a contract to a supplier based on lowest evaluated price alone can be false economy if there is subsequent default, late deliveries, or other unsatisfactory performance resulting in ad…
  • FAR 25.106 Determining reasonableness of cost.
    …offer by adding to the price of the low offer, inclusive of duty— (A) 20 percent, if the lowest domestic offer is from a large business concern; or (B) 30 percent, if the lowest domestic offer is from a small business concern. The contrac…
  • FAR 25.503 Group offers.
    … determining a tentative award pattern by selecting for each line item the offer with the lowest evaluated price. (2) Evaluate an offer that specifies an award restriction against the offered prices of the tentative award pattern, applying…
  • FAR 25.502 Application.
    …he low offer is a noneligible offer and there is an eligible offer that is lower than the lowest domestic offer, award on the low offer. The procedures at 25.106(b)(2) and 25.106(c)(2) do not apply. (4) Otherwise, apply the appropriate eva…
  • FAR 52.247-51 Evaluation of Export Offers.
    …ernment bill of lading. (1) Offers shall be evaluated and awards made on the basis of the lowest laid down cost to the Government at the overseas port of discharge, via methods and ports compatible with required delivery dates and condition…
  • FAR 13.106-2 Evaluation of quotations or offers.
    …tify from all quotations or offers received one that is suitable to the user, such as the lowest priced brand name product, and quickly screen all lower priced quotations or offers based on readily discernible value indicators, such as past…
  • FAR 17.106-2 Solicitations.
    …ontract including the requirements for each program year. (b) Criteria for comparing the lowest evaluated submission on the first program year requirements to the lowest evaluated submission on the multiyear requirements. (c) A provision …
  • FAR 52.214-10 Contract Award—Sealed Bidding.
    …licitation. (b) The Government may (1) reject any or all bids, (2) accept other than the lowest bid, and (3) waive informalities or minor irregularities in bids received. (c) The Government may accept any item or group of items of a bid, …
  • FAR 52.225-9 Buy American—Construction Materials.
    …s and does not exceed 55 percent domestic content, the Contracting Officer will treat the lowest offer of foreign construction material that exceeds 55 percent domestic content as a domestic offer and determine whether the cost of that offe…
  • FAR 52.225-11 Buy American—Construction Materials Under Trade Agreements.
    … that does not exceed 55 percent domestic content, the Contracting Officer will treat the lowest offer of foreign construction material that is manufactured in the United States and exceeds 55 percent domestic content as a domestic offer an…
  • FAR 17.207 Exercise of options.
    …tion and the exercise of the option is so short that it indicates the option price is the lowest price obtainable or the more advantageous offer. The contracting officer shall take into consideration such factors as market stability and com…
  • FAR 25.504-4 Group award basis.
    …TEP 1: Evaluate Offers A & B before considering Offer C and determine which offer has the lowest evaluated cost for each line item (the tentative award pattern): Item 1: Low offer A is domestic; select A. Item 2: Low offer B is eligible; …
  • FAR 47.305-3 F.o.b. origin solicitations.
    …tions, to select the mode of transportation that will provide the required service at the lowest possible overall cost.) (4)(i) The quantity of supplies to be shipped from each shipping point. (ii) The contracting officer shall insert in …
  • FAR 52.212-1 Instructions to Offerors—Commercial Products and Commercial Services.
    … reject any or all offers if such action is in the public interest; accept other than the lowest offer; and waive informalities and minor irregularities in offers received. (h) Multiple awards. The Government may accept any item or group o…
  • FAR 52.214-19 Contract Award—Sealed Bidding—Construction.
    …o cost for other work, and if there is a reasonable doubt that the bid will result in the lowest overall cost to the Government even though it may be the low evaluated bid, or if it is so unbalanced as to be tantamount to allowing an advanc…
  • DFARS 217.7004 Solicitation and award.
    …sted. (b) The contracting officer is not obligated to award on an exchange basis. If the lowest evaluated offer is an offer for the new items without any exchange, the contracting officer may award on that basis and forgo the exchange. (c…
  • DFARS 225.502 Application.
    …valuation factor, and there is another foreign offer that is exempt and is lower than the lowest domestic offer, award on the low foreign offer (see example in PGI 225.504(2)). (E) Otherwise, apply the 50 percent evaluation factor to the l…

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