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48 CFR · Federal Acquisition Regulation and Defense supplement

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24 sections with “oral statement”

  • FAR 15.102 Oral presentations.
    (a) Oral presentations by offerors as requested by the Government may substitute for, or augment, written information. Use of oral presentations as a substitute for portions of a proposal can be effective in streamlining the source selectio…
  • FAR 52.247-27 Contract Not Affected by Oral Agreement.
    …acts for transportation or for transportation-related services: Contract Not Affected by Oral Agreement (APR 1984) No oral statement of any person shall modify or otherwise affect the terms, conditions, or specifications stated in this co…
  • FAR 15.208 Submission, modification, revision, and withdrawal of proposals.
    …roposal wrapper, other documentary evidence of receipt maintained by the installation, or oral testimony or statements of Government personnel. (d) If an emergency or unanticipated event interrupts normal Government processes so that propo…
  • FAR 52.212-1 Instructions to Offerors—Commercial Products and Commercial Services.
    …e offer wrapper, other documentary evidence of receipt maintained by the installation, or oral testimony or statements of Government personnel. (4) If an emergency or unanticipated event interrupts normal Government processes so that offer…
  • FAR 52.215-1 Instructions to Offerors—Competitive Acquisition.
    …roposal wrapper, other documentary evidence of receipt maintained by the installation, or oral testimony or statements of Government personnel. (iv) If an emergency or unanticipated event interrupts normal Government processes so that prop…
  • FAR 13.106-3 Award and documentation.
    …ng illustrate the extent to which quotation or offer information should be recorded: (1) Oral solicitations. The contracting office should establish and maintain records of oral price quotations in order to reflect clearly the propriety of…
  • FAR 22.1905 Enforcement of Executive Order Minimum Wage Requirements.
    … of this subpart has occurred. (2) The identity of any individual who makes a written or oral statement as a complaint or in the course of an investigation, as well as portions of the statement which would reveal the individual's identity,…
  • FAR 22.2109 Enforcement of Executive Order 13706 paid sick leave requirements.
    … of this subpart has occurred. (2) The identity of any individual who makes a written or oral statement as a complaint or in the course of an investigation, as well as portions of the statement which would reveal the individual's identity,…
  • FAR 15.404-2 Data to support proposal analysis.
    …ults, including supporting rationale, may be reported directly to the contracting officer orally, in writing, or by any other method acceptable to the contracting officer. (i) Whenever circumstances permit, the contracting officer and fiel…
  • FAR 16.504 Indefinite-quantity contracts.
    …of the activities authorized to issue orders; and (vi) Include authorization for placing oral orders, if appropriate, provided that the Government has established procedures for obligating funds and that oral orders are confirmed in writin…
  • FAR 5.101 Methods of disseminating information.
    …section when the exemptions at 5.202(a)(1), (a)(4) through (a)(9), or (a)(11) apply, when oral solicitations are used, or when providing access to a notice of proposed contract action and solicitation through the GPE and the notice permits …
  • FAR 5.207 Preparation and transmittal of synopses.
    …i) A description of the procedures to be used in awarding the contract (e.g., request for oral or written quotation or solicitation); and (ii) The anticipated award date. (13) For Architect-Engineer projects and other projects for which t…
  • FAR 8.406-1 Order placement.
    (a) Ordering activities may place orders orally, except for— (1) Supplies and services not requiring a statement of work exceeding the simplified acquisition threshold; (2) Services requiring a statement of work (SOW); and (3) Orders con…
  • FAR 13.305-4 Procedures.
    … adequate funds are available for the purchase. (b) Normally, purchases should be placed orally and without soliciting competition if prices are considered reasonable. (c) Since there is, for all practical purposes, simultaneous placement…
  • FAR 14.304 Submission, modification, and withdrawal of bids.
    …the bid wrapper, other documentary evidence of receipt maintained by the installation, or oral testimony or statements of Government personnel. (d) If an emergency or unanticipated event interrupts normal Government processes so that bids …
  • FAR 16.505 Ordering.
    …requirements to a minimum. Contracting officers may use streamlined procedures, including oral presentations. If the order does not exceed the simplified acquisition threshold, the contracting officer need not contact each of the multiple a…
  • FAR 22.406-8 Investigations.
    …labor laws and their application to contracts. (2) Do not disclose contractor employees' oral or written statements taken during an investigation or the employee's identity to anyone other than an authorized Government official without tha…
  • FAR 22.2105 Paid sick leave for Federal contractors and subcontractors.
    …permit an employee to use any or all of the employee's available paid sick leave upon the oral or written request of an employee that includes information sufficient to inform the contractor that the employee is seeking to be absent from wo…
  • FAR 31.001 Definitions.
    …the price of labor. Labor-time standard means a preestablished measure, expressed in temporal terms, of the quantity of labor. Material cost at standard means a preestablished measure of the material elements of cost, computed by multiply…
  • FAR 46.405 Subcontracts.
    …t, except occasionally to verify this evidence or when required under (b) above. (d) All oral and written statements and contract terms and conditions relating to Government quality assurance actions at the subcontract level shall be worde…
  • FAR 50.103-4 Facts and evidence.
    …ation: (1) Copies of any written instructions or assurances (or a sworn statement of any oral instructions or assurances) given the contractor, and identification of the Government official who gave them. (2) A statement as to when the co…
  • FAR 52.214-7 Late submissions, modifications, and withdrawals of bids.
    …the bid wrapper, other documentary evidence of receipt maintained by the installation, or oral testimony or statements of Government personnel. (d) If an emergency or unanticipated event interrupts normal Government processes so that bids …
  • FAR 52.214-23 Late submissions, modifications, revisions, and withdrawals of technical proposals under two-step sealed bidding.
    …roposal wrapper, other documentary evidence of receipt maintained by the installation, or oral testimony or statements of Government personnel. (d) If an emergency or unanticipated event interrupts normal Government processes so that techn…
  • FAR 52.243-4 Changes.
    … or (4) Directing acceleration in the performance of the work. (b) Any other written or oral order (which, as used in this paragraph (b), includes direction, instruction, interpretation, or determination) from the Contracting Officer that…

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.