48 CFR · Federal Acquisition Regulation and Defense supplement

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19 sections with “organizational type”

  • FAR 52.204-21 Basic Safeguarding of Covered Contractor Information Systems.
    …identities of those users, processes, or devices, as a prerequisite to allowing access to organizational information systems. (vii) Sanitize or destroy information system media containing Federal Contract Information before disposal or rel…
  • FAR 31.101 Objectives.
    In recognition of differing organizational characteristics, the cost principles and procedures in the succeeding subparts are grouped basically by organizational type; e.g., commercial concerns and educational institutions. The overall obje…
  • FAR 2.101 Definitions.
    … those services provided under contract by nongovernmental sources to support or improve: organizational policy development; decision-making; management and administration; program and/or project management and administration; or R&D activi…
  • FAR 4.802 Contract files.
    …ation of the functions are performed by the same office. (c) Files must be maintained at organizational levels that ensure— (1) Effective documentation of contract actions; (2) Ready accessibility to principal users; (3) Minimal establi…
  • FAR 15.408 Solicitation provisions and contract clauses.
    …old set forth at FAR 15.403-4 priced on the basis of adequate price competition. For interorganizational transfers priced at other than the cost of comparable competitive commercial work of the division, subsidiary, or affiliate of the cont…
  • FAR 31.001 Definitions.
    …ing a cost accounting period. Cost objective means (except for subpart 31.6) a function, organizational subdivision, contract, or other work unit for which cost data are desired and for which provision is made to accumulate and measure the…
  • FAR 52.216-7 Allowable Cost and Payment.
    …istribution. (M) Listing of decisions/agreements/approvals and description of accounting/organizational changes. (N) Certificate of final indirect costs (see 52.242-4, Certification of Final Indirect Costs). (O) Contract closing informat…
  • DFARS 252.244-7001 Contractor Purchasing System Administration.
    …rfeit Electronic Part Detection and Avoidance System, if applicable; (20) Provide for an organizational and administrative structure that ensures effective and efficient procurement of required quality materials and parts at the best value…
  • FAR 15.604 Agency points of contact.
    …. (2) Requirements concerning responsible prospective contractors (see subpart 9.1), and organizational conflicts of interest (see subpart 9.5). (3) Guidance on preferred methods for submitting ideas/concepts to the Government, such as an…
  • FAR 15.605 Content of unsolicited proposals.
    … past performance, and facilities to be used; (6) Other statements, if applicable, about organizational conflicts of interest, security clearances, and environmental impacts; and (7) The names and telephone numbers of agency technical or …
  • FAR 16.601 Time-and-materials contracts.
    … when— (A) It is the established practice of the transferring organization to price interorganizational transfers at other than cost for commercial work of the contractor or any division, subsidiary or affiliate of the contractor under a c…
  • FAR 31.205-6 Compensation for personal services.
    …the contractor for accounting purposes. (iv) Contractor's headquarters means the highest organizational level from which executive compensation costs are allocated to Government contracts. (2) Senior executive compensation limit for contr…
  • FAR 32.402 General.
    …tions, and for approval of contract terms concerning advance payments (see 32.410), at an organizational level high enough to ensure uniform application of this subpart (see the limitation at 50.102-1(b) which also applies to advance paymen…
  • FAR 35.017 Federally Funded Research and Development Centers.
    …ent, to operate in the public interest with objectivity and independence, to be free from organizational conflicts of interest, and to have full disclosure of its affairs to the sponsoring agency. It is not the Government's intent that an F…
  • FAR 37.104 Personal services contracts.
    …e Government. (3) Services are applied directly to the integral effort of agencies or an organizational subpart in furtherance of assigned function or mission. (4) Comparable services, meeting comparable needs, are performed in the same o…
  • FAR 42.1204 Applicability of novation agreements.
    …ontracts, the responsible contracting officer shall identify and evaluate any significant organizational conflicts of interest in accordance with subpart 9.5. If the responsible contracting officer determines that a conflict of interest can…
  • FAR 52.101 Using part 52.
    …o satisfy the needs of that particular suborganization; or (C) Developed for use at a suborganizational level of an agency, not meant for repetitive use, but intended to meet the needs of an individual acquisition and, thus, impractical to…
  • FAR 52.103 Identification of provisions and clauses.
    …at provision shall be “9952.214-70—Bid Envelopes (OCT 1983).” (2) Assume that Y, a major organizational element of the X Agency, is authorized to issue the Y Acquisition Regulation, which is not published in the Federal Register and codifi…
  • FAR 52.216-30 Time-and-Materials/Labor-Hour Proposal Requirements—Other Than Commercial Acquisition Without Adequate Price Competition.
    …t rate when it is the established practice of the transferring organization to price interorganizational transfers at other than cost for commercial work of the offeror or any division, subsidiary or affiliate of the offeror under a common …

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.