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160 sections with “percentage”: the first 40

  • FAR 52.223-9 Estimate of Percentage of Recovered Material Content for EPA-Designated Items.
    As prescribed in 23.109(b)(2), insert the following clause: Estimate of Percentage of Recovered Material Content for EPA-Designated Items (MAY 2008) (a) Definitions. As used in this clause— Postconsumer material means a material or finis…
  • FAR 52.222-31 Construction Wage Rate Requirements—Price Adjustment (Percentage Method).
    …7(f), insert the following clause: Construction Wage Rate Requirements—Price Adjustment (Percentage Method) (AUG 2018) (a) The wage determination issued under the Construction Wage Rate Requirements statute by the Administrator, Wage and …
  • FAR 49.305-2 Construction contracts.
    (a) The percentage of completion basis refers to the contractor's total effort and not solely to the actual construction work. Generally, the effort of a contractor under a cost-reimbursement construction or professional services contract c…
  • FAR 52.219-9 Small Business Subcontracting Plan.
    …llowing: (1) Separate goals, expressed in terms of total dollars subcontracted, and as a percentage of total planned subcontracting dollars, for the use of small business, veteran-owned small business, service-disabled veteran-owned small …
  • FAR 52.249-6 Termination (Cost-Reimbursement).
    …tract is terminated for the convenience of the Government, the settlement shall include a percentage of the fee equal to the percentage of completion of work contemplated under the contract, but excluding subcontract effort included in subc…
  • DFARS 252.225-7001 Buy American and Balance of Payments Program.
    …n the United States exceeds 60 percent of the cost of all its components, except that the percentage will be 65 percent for items delivered in calendar years 2024 through 2028 and 75 percent for items delivered starting in calendar year 202…
  • DFARS 252.225-7035 Buy American—Free Trade Agreements—Balance of Payments Program Certificate.
    …end products exceed 55 percent domestic content, except those that are COTS items. If the percentage of the domestic content is unknown, select “no”. (3) The Offeror shall list the line item numbers of domestic end products that contain a …
  • DFARS 252.225-7036 Buy American—Free Trade Agreements—Balance of Payments Program.
    …n the United States exceeds 60 percent of the cost of all its components, except that the percentage will be 65 percent for items delivered in calendar years 2024 through 2028 and 75 percent for items delivered starting in calendar year 202…
  • DFARS 252.225-7045 Balance of Payments Program—Construction Material Under Trade Agreements.
    …n the United States exceeds 60 percent of the cost of all its components, except that the percentage will be 65 percent for items delivered in calendar years 2024 through 2028 and 75 percent for items delivered starting in calendar year 202…
  • DFARS 252.242-7005 Contractor business systems.
    …ents and performance-based payments, and direct the Contractor, in writing, to reduce the percentage withheld on interim cost vouchers to 2 percent until the Contracting Officer determines the Contractor has corrected all material weaknesse…
  • FAR 11.701 Supply contracts.
    … by allowances in manufacturing processes. Any permissible variation shall be stated as a percentage and it may be an increase, a decrease, or a combination of both; however, contracts for subsistence items may use other applicable terms of…
  • FAR 19.704 Subcontracting plan requirements.
    …uired under 19.301-2(e) and 19.702(a)(1)(i), (ii), and (iii) shall include— (1) Separate percentage goals for using small business (including ANCs and Indian tribes), veteran-owned small business, service-disabled veteran-owned small busin…
  • FAR 22.404-12 Labor standards for contracts containing construction requirements and option provisions that extend the term of the contract.
    …(3) The contracting officer may provide for a contract price adjustment based solely on a percentage rate determined by the contracting officer using a published economic indicator incorporated into the solicitation and resulting contract. …
  • FAR 25.003 Definitions.
    …n the United States exceeds 60 percent of the cost of all its components, except that the percentage will be 65 percent for items delivered in calendar years 2024 through 2028 and 75 percent for items delivered starting in calendar year 202…
  • FAR 25.1102 Acquisition of construction.
    …ents of the Buy American statute. (2) If the head of the agency determines that a higher percentage is appropriate, substitute the higher evaluation percentage in paragraph (b)(3)(i) of the clause. (3) The contracting officer shall use th…
  • DFARS 225.003 Definitions.
    …n the United States exceeds 60 percent of the cost of all its components, except that the percentage will be 65 percent for items delivered in calendar years 2024 through 2028 and 75 percent for items delivered starting in calendar year 202…
  • DFARS 252.225-7000 Buy American—Balance of Payments Program Certificate.
    …products exceed 55 percent domestic content, except for those that are COTS items. If the percentage of the domestic content is unknown, select “no”. (2) The Offeror certifies that the following end products are qualifying country end prod…
  • DFARS 252.225-7021 Trade Agreements.
    …types of components exceeds 60 percent of the cost of all its components, except that the percentage will be 65 percent for items delivered in calendar years 2024 through 2028 and 75 percent for items delivered starting in calendar year 202…
  • DFARS 252.225-7044 Balance of Payments Program—Construction Material.
    …n the United States exceeds 60 percent of the cost of all its components, except that the percentage will be 65 percent for items delivered in calendar years 2024 through 2028 and 75 percent for items delivered starting in calendar year 202…
  • FAR 2.101 Definitions.
    …e modification and the comparative value and size of the final product. Dollar values and percentages may be used as guideposts, but are not conclusive evidence that a modification is minor; (4) Any combination of products meeting the requ…
  • FAR 17.106-1 General.
    …ne Item Summaries C(8)) are estimated at 10 percent of the total multiyear price, and the percentages for each of the program year requirements for 5 years are (i) 30 in the first year, (ii) 30 in the second, (iii) 20 in the third, (iv) 10 …
  • FAR 31.205-47 Costs related to legal and other proceedings.
    …r a third party, either directly as a result of the proceeding or otherwise; and (3) The percentage of costs allowed does not exceed the percentage determined to be appropriate considering the complexity of procurement litigation, generall…
  • FAR 32.1004 Procedures.
    …ally state the amount of each performance-based payment either as a dollar amount or as a percentage of a specifically identified price (e.g., contract price or unit price of the deliverable item). The payment of contract financing has a co…
  • FAR 36.501 Performance of work by the contractor.
    …tract work with its own forces. The contract shall express this requirement in terms of a percentage that reflects the minimum amount of work the contractor must perform with its own forces. This percentage is (1) as high as the contracting…
  • FAR 49.305-1 General.
    …if any, in the manner provided by the contract. The determination is generally based on a percentage of completion of the contract or of the terminated portion. When this basis is used, factors such as the extent and difficulty of the work …
  • FAR 52.211-16 Variation in Quantity.
    …rmissible variation shall be limited to: __ Percent increase [Contracting Officer insert percentage] __ Percent decrease [Contracting Officer insert percentage] This increase or decrease shall apply to __ * (End of clause) *Contracting…
  • FAR 52.212-3 Offeror Representations and Certifications—Commercial Products and Commercial Services.
    …products exceed 55 percent domestic content, except for those that are COTS items. If the percentage of the domestic content is unknown, select “no”. (iii) The Offeror shall separately list the line item numbers of domestic end products th…
  • FAR 52.213-4 Terms and Conditions—Simplified Acquisitions (Other Than Commercial Products and Commercial Services).
    … exceeds __ percent of the cost of all its components. [Contracting officer to insert the percentage per instructions at 13.302-5(d)(4).]) (xix) 52.226-6, Promoting Excess Food Donation to Nonprofit Organizations (JUN 2020) (42 U.S.C. 1792…
  • FAR 52.222-9 Apprentices and Trainees.
    …her than that in which its program is registered, the ratios and wage rates (expressed in percentages of the journeyman's hourly rate) specified in the Contractor's or subcontractor's registered program shall be observed. Every apprentice m…
  • FAR 52.248-1 Value Engineering.
    … VECP is accepted, the Contractor shall share in net acquisition savings according to the percentages shown in the table below. The percentage paid the Contractor depends upon (1) this contract's type (fixed-price, incentive, or cost-reimbu…
  • DFARS 217.7505 Limitations on price increases.
    …sed by 25 percent or more over the most recent 12-month period. (1) Before computing the percentage difference between the current price and the prior price, adjust for quantity, escalation, and other factors necessary to achieve comparabi…
  • DFARS 242.7000 Contractor business system deficiencies.
    …ents and performance-based payments, and direct the contractor, in writing, to reduce the percentage withheld on interim cost vouchers by at least 50 percent, until the contracting officer makes a determination in accordance with paragraph …
  • DFARS 252.216-7001 Economic Price Adjustment-Nonstandard Steel Items.
    …ill be finally fabricated or processed into the contract item. 5 Offeror insert the same percentage figures for the corresponding blanks in paragraphs (b), (e)(3)(i), and (e)(3)(ii). In paragraph (e)(3)(iii), insert the percentage represen…
  • FAR 12.403 Termination.
    …cial services for the Government's convenience, the contractor shall be paid— (i)(A) The percentage of the contract price reflecting the percentage of the work performed prior to the notice of the termination for fixed-price or fixed-price…
  • FAR 14.408-4 Economic price adjustment.
    …allowable economic price adjustment being added. (2) When a bidder increases the maximum percentage of economic price adjustment stipulated in the invitation or limits the downward economic price adjustment provisions of the invitation, th…
  • FAR 16.102 Policies.
    …gulation shall not be used, except as a deviation under subpart 1.4. (c) The cost-plus-a-percentage-of-cost system of contracting shall not be used (see 10 U.S.C. 3322(a) and 41 U.S.C. 3905(a)). Prime contracts (including letter contracts)…
  • FAR 23.107-1 Products containing recovered materials.
    …d either an estimate or a certification at contract completion (see 52.223-9, Estimate of Percentage of Recovered Material Content for EPA-Designated Items, and its Alternate), as well as agency procedures for verification of estimates and …
  • FAR 28.102-3 Contract clauses.
    …ing officer may revise paragraphs (b)(1) and/or (b)(2) of the clause to establish a lower percentage in accordance with 28.102-2(b). If the provision at 52.228-1 is not included in the solicitation, the contracting officer must set a period…
  • FAR 28.106-6 Furnishing information.
    …st, may be furnished information on the progress of the work, payments, and the estimated percentage of completion, concerning the contract for which the bond was furnished. (b) When a payment bond has been provided, the contracting office…
  • FAR 32.102 Description of contract financing methods.
    …he contract. This form of contract financing does not include— (1) Payments based on the percentage or stage of completion accomplished; (2) Payments for partial deliveries accepted by the Government; (3) Partial payments for a contract …

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