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48 CFR · Federal Acquisition Regulation and Defense supplement

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49 sections with “make progress”: the first 40

  • FAR 52.232-16 Progress Payments.
    …502-4(a), insert the following clause: Progress Payments (NOV 2021) The Government will make progress payments to the Contractor when requested as work progresses, but not more frequently than monthly, in amounts of $2,500 or more approve…
  • FAR 49.402-3 Procedure for default.
    …) of the Default clause covers situations when the contractor has defaulted by failure to make delivery of the supplies or to perform the services within the specified time. In these situations, no notice of failure or of the possibility of…
  • FAR 52.232-12 Advance Payments.
    …s of the advance payment terms; (B) Comply with any material term of this contract; (C) Make progress or maintain a financial condition adequate for performance of this contract; (D) Limit inventory allocated to this contract to reasonab…
  • FAR 52.249-6 Termination (Cost-Reimbursement).
    …ing Officer) after receiving a notice specifying the default. Default includes failure to make progress in the work so as to endanger performance. (b) The Contracting Officer shall terminate by delivering to the Contractor a Notice of Term…
  • FAR 32.503-6 Suspension or reduction of payments.
    …gress payments) is endangered by the contractor's financial condition, or by a failure to make progress, the contracting officer shall require the contractor to make additional operating or financial arrangements adequate for completing the…
  • FAR 52.216-7 Allowable Cost and Payment.
    …ng clause: Allowable Cost and Payment (AUG 2018) (a) Invoicing. (1) The Government will make payments to the Contractor when requested as work progresses, but (except for small business concerns) not more often than once every 2 weeks, in…
  • FAR 52.222-27 Affirmative Action Compliance Requirements for Construction.
    …s also required to comply with its obligations under the Equal Opportunity clause, and to make a good faith effort to achieve each goal under the plan in each trade in which it has employees. The overall good-faith performance by other Cont…
  • FAR 52.222-41 Service Contract Labor Standards.
    …ilure to comply with subparagraph (c)(2) of this clause, the Wage and Hour Division shall make a final determination of conformed classification, wage rate, and/or fringe benefits which shall be retroactive to the date such class or classes…
  • FAR 52.232-26 Prompt Payment for Fixed-Price Architect-Engineer Contracts.
    …(JAN 2017) Notwithstanding any other payment terms in this contract, the Government will make invoice payments under the terms and conditions specified in this clause. The Government considers payment as being made on the day a check is da…
  • FAR 52.232-27 Prompt Payment for Construction Contracts.
    …(JAN 2017) Notwithstanding any other payment terms in this contract, the Government will make invoice payments under the terms and conditions specified in this clause. The Government considers payment as being made on the day a check is da…
  • FAR 52.237-4 Payment by Government to Contractor.
    …val of improvements whenever the contracting officer determines that the Government shall make payment to the contractor in addition to any title to property that the contractor may receive under the contract: Payment by Government to Cont…
  • FAR 32.503-2 Supervision of progress payments.
    …o protecting the Government's interests better and taking such action as may be proper to make contract performance more certain. (d) So far as practicable, all cost problems, particularly those involving indirect costs, that are likely to…
  • FAR 32.904 Determining payment due dates.
    …t officials to accept supplies or services, perform contract administration functions, or make payment prior to fulfilling their responsibilities; and (4) Except for a contract for the purchase of a commercial product or commercial service…
  • FAR 49.402-1 The Government's right.
    …terminate the contract completely or partially for default if the contractor fails to (a) make delivery of the supplies or perform the services within the time specified in the contract, (b) perform any other provision of the contract, or (…
  • FAR 52.232-32 Performance-Based Payments.
    …ause). (2) Performance of this contract is endangered by the Contractor's (i) failure to make progress, or (ii) unsatisfactory financial condition. (3) The Contractor is delinquent in payment of any subcontractor or supplier under this co…
  • FAR 52.236-16 Quantity Surveys.
    …pleted and in place. (b) The Government shall conduct the original and final surveys and make the computations based on them. The Contractor shall conduct the surveys for any periods for which progress payments are requested and shall make…
  • FAR 52.246-17 Warranty of Supplies of a Noncomplex Nature.
    …Contractor the cost occasioned to the Government thereby if the Contractor— (A) Fails to make redelivery of the corrected or replaced supplies within the time established for their return; or (B) Fails either to accept return of the nonco…
  • FAR 52.249-8 Default (Fixed-Price Supply and Service).
    …o perform the services within the time specified in this contract or any extension; (ii) Make progress, so as to endanger performance of this contract (but see subparagraph (a)(2) below); or (iii) Perform any of the other provisions of th…
  • FAR 52.249-14 Excusable Delays.
    …ontrol and without the fault or negligence of the Contractor. Default includes failure to make progress in the work so as to endanger performance. (b) If the failure to perform is caused by the failure of a subcontractor at any tier to per…
  • DFARS 242.7502 Policy.
    …stem criteria in the clause at 252.242-7006, the contracting officer shall— (A) Promptly make an initial written determination on any material weaknesses and notify the contractor, in writing, providing a description of each material weakn…
  • DFARS 252.217-7007 Payments.
    … the Contracting Officer, and as approved by the Contracting Officer, the Government will make progress payments as work progresses under the job order. (1) Generally, the Contractor may submit invoices on a semi-monthly basis, unless expe…
  • DFARS 252.217-7009 Default.
    …ntractor, terminate the whole or any part of a job order if the Contractor fails to— (1) Make delivery of the supplies or to perform the services within the time specified in a job order or any extension; (2) Make progress, so as to endan…
  • FAR 32.501-3 Contract price.
    …ts only shall be excluded from the contract price. (b) The contracting officer shall not make progress payments or increase the contract price beyond the funds obligated under the contract, as amended.
  • FAR 52.209-3 First Article Approval—Contractor Testing.
    …or all first article tests. After each request for additional tests, the Contractor shall make any necessary changes, modifications, or repairs to the first article or select another first article for testing. All costs related to these tes…
  • FAR 52.209-4 First Article Approval—Government Testing.
    … submit an additional first article for testing. After each request, the Contractor shall make any necessary changes, modifications, or repairs to the first article or select another first article for testing. All costs related to these tes…
  • FAR 52.232-5 Payments Under Fixed-Price Construction Contracts.
    …contract price as provided in this contract. (b) Progress payments. The Government shall make progress payments monthly as the work proceeds, or at more frequent intervals as determined by the Contracting Officer, on estimates of work acco…
  • FAR 52.245-1 Government Property.
    …inspect such property prior to the property being provided. In such cases, the Government makes no warranty with respect to the serviceability and/or suitability of the property for contract performance. Any repairs, replacement, and/or ref…
  • DFARS 242.7000 Contractor business system deficiencies.
    …6 of Pub. L. 112-81). (b) Determination to withhold payments. If the contracting officer makes a final determination to disapprove a contractor's business system in accordance with the clause at 252.242-7005, Contractor Business Systems, t…
  • FAR 15.407-1 Defective certified cost or pricing data.
    …sed on a postaward review that indicates defective pricing, the contracting officer shall make a determination as to whether or not the data submitted were defective and relied upon. Before making such a determination, the contracting offic…
  • FAR 28.106-6 Furnishing information.
    …sh a certified copy of the bond and the contract for which it was given to any person who makes a request therefor and who furnishes an affidavit that the requestor has supplied labor or materials for such work and payment therefor has not …
  • FAR 42.302 Contract administration functions.
    …sts for payments under the progress payments or performance-based payments clauses. (14) Make payments on assigned contracts when prescribed in agency acquisition regulations. (15) Manage special bank accounts. (16) Ensure timely notific…
  • FAR 49.603-2 Fixed-price contracts—partial termination.
    …____________, all obligations of the Contractor to perform further work or services or to make further deliveries under the terminated portion of the contract and all obligations of the Government to make further payments or carry out other…
  • DFARS 252.232-7003 Electronic Submission of Payment Requests and Receiving Reports.
    …contract administration data section of this contract or task or delivery order; (2) DoD makes payment for commercial transportation services provided under a Government rate tender or a contract for transportation services using a DoD-app…
  • FAR 9.508 Examples.
    …asers in communications. The agency intends to ask that firms doing research in the field make proprietary information available to Company A. The contract must require Company A to— (1) Enter into agreements with these firms to protect an…
  • FAR 16.104 Factors in selecting contract types.
    …ch and development contracts, when performance uncertainties or the likelihood of changes makes it difficult to estimate performance costs in advance. As a requirement recurs or as quantity production begins, the cost risk should shift to t…
  • FAR 32.001 Definitions.
    …rnmental agent. Designated payment office means the office designated in the contract to make invoice payments or contract financing payments. Normally, this will be the Government disbursing office. Due date means the date on which payme…
  • FAR 32.104 Providing contract financing.
    … 4 months or more for small business concerns, and 6 months or more for others), and will make expenditures for contract performance during the predelivery period that have a significant impact on the contractor's working capital; or (ii) …
  • FAR 32.110 Payment of subcontractors under cost-reimbursement prime contracts.
    If the contractor makes financing payments to a subcontractor under a cost-reimbursement prime contract, the contracting officer should accept the financing payments as reimbursable costs of the prime contract only under the following condi…
  • FAR 32.112-1 Subcontractor assertions of nonpayment.
    …actor is not in compliance, the contracting officer may— (1) Encourage the contractor to make timely payment to the subcontractor or supplier; or (2) If authorized by the applicable payment clauses, reduce or suspend progress payments to …
  • FAR 32.503-9 Liquidation rates—alternate method.
    …rovided by the consideration included in the initial contract. The parties shall promptly make the payment or liquidation required in the circumstances.

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