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48 CFR · Federal Acquisition Regulation and Defense supplement

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18 sections with “major acquisitions for development”

  • FAR 7.106 Additional requirements for major systems.
    (a) In planning for the solicitation of a major system (see part 34) development contract, planners shall consider requiring offerors to include, in their offers, proposals to incorporate in the design of a major system— (1) Items which ar…
  • FAR 2.101 Definitions.
    … (see 9.505-1(b)) to ensure the effective operation and maintenance of a weapon system or major system as defined in OMB Circular No. A-109 or to provide direct support of a weapon system that is essential to research, development, producti…
  • FAR 15.407-2 Make-or-buy programs.
    …nformation required from a contractor in a make-or-buy program shall be confined to those major items or work efforts that normally would require company management review of the make-or-buy decision because they are complex, costly, needed…
  • FAR 27.409 Solicitation provisions and contract clauses
    …the clause at 52.227-21, Technical Data Declaration, Revision, and Withholding of Payment—Major Systems, in contracts for major systems acquisitions or for support of major systems acquisitions. This requirement includes contracts for detai…
  • DFARS 215.404-71-2 Performance risk.
    … should consider using values less than the norm. For innovative efforts that will have a major positive impact on the product or program, the contracting officer may use values above the norm. (e) Evaluation criteria for management/cost c…
  • FAR 7.105 Contents of written acquisition plans.
    …urce(s), and discuss why full and open competition cannot be obtained. (ii) Identify the major components or subsystems. Discuss component breakout plans relative to these major components or subsystems. Describe how competition will be so…
  • FAR 34.201 Policy.
    (a) An Earned Value Management System (EVMS) is required for major acquisitions for development, in accordance with OMB Circular A-11. The Government may also require an EVMS for other acquisitions, in accordance with agency procedures. (b…
  • DFARS 202.101 Definitions.
    …ice of the Secretary of Defense. (For emergency acquisition flexibilities, see 218.270.) Major defense acquisition program is defined in 10 U.S.C. 4201. Material weakness means a deficiency or combination of deficiencies in the internal c…
  • DFARS 227.7103-1 Policy.
    …g to those items may be restricted. (e) As provided in 10 U.S.C. 3208, solicitations for major systems development contracts shall not require offerors to submit proposals that would permit the Government to acquire competitively items ide…
  • FAR 13.201 General.
    … assistance pursuant to 22 U.S.C. 2292 et seq.; or to support response to an emergency or major disaster (42 U.S.C. 5122), the micro-purchase threshold is— (i) $25,000 in the case of any contract to be awarded and performed, or purchase to…
  • DFARS 208.7003-2 Assignments under coordinated acquisition.
    …e only from the original source for follow-on contract); (j) Items directly related to a major system and which are design controlled by and acquired from either the system manufacturer or a manufacturer of a major subsystem; (k) Items su…
  • DFARS 215.304 Evaluation factors and significant subfactors.
    …(including machine tools) manufactured in the United States, in source selections for all major defense acquisition programs as defined in 10 U.S.C. 4201. (iii) See 247.573-2(c) for additional evaluation factors required in solicitations f…
  • DFARS 216.405-2 Cost-plus-award-fee contracts.
    …elopment or operational system development acquisitions ancillary to the development of a major weapon system or equipment, where— (1) It is more advantageous; and (2) The purpose of the acquisition is clearly to determine or solve specif…
  • FAR 13.500 General.
    …provision of international disaster assistance; or to support response to an emergency or major disaster, or (2) The acquisition will be treated as an acquisition of commercial products or commercial services in accordance with 12.102(f)(1…
  • FAR 16.103 Negotiating contract type.
    … acquisition procedures; (ii) Contracts on a firm-fixed-price basis other than those for major systems or research and development; and (iii) Awards on the set-aside portion of sealed bid partial set-asides for small business.
  • FAR 16.405-1 Cost-plus-incentive-fee contracts.
    …ical performance incentives when it is highly probable that the required development of a major system is feasible and the Government has established its performance objectives, at least in general terms. This approach may also apply to oth…
  • FAR 52.245-1 Government Property.
    …ractor's operation at any one plant or separate location; or (3) A separate and complete major industrial operation. Demilitarization means rendering a product unusable for, and not restorable to, the purpose for which it was designed or …
  • DFARS 215.408 Solicitation provisions and contract clauses.
    …ld-Cost Review, in all solicitations and contracts for the development or production of a major weapon system, as defined in 234.7001.

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.