48 CFR · Federal Acquisition Regulation and Defense supplement

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8 sections with “periodicals”

  • FAR 13.303-3 Preparation of BPAs.
    … that all shipments under the agreement, except those for newspapers, magazines, or other periodicals, shall be accompanied by delivery tickets or sales slips that shall contain the following minimum information: (i) Name of supplier. (ii…
  • DFARS 227.7105-2 Acquisition of existing works without modification.
    … A contract clause is not required to acquire existing works such as books, magazines and periodicals, in any storage or retrieval medium, when the Government will not reproduce the books, magazines or periodicals, or prepare derivative wor…
  • FAR 13.302-5 Clauses.
    … (see 31 U.S.C. 3324(d)(2)) for subscriptions or other charges for newspapers, magazines, periodicals, or other publications (i.e., any publication printed, microfilmed, photocopied, or magnetically or otherwise recorded for auditory or vis…
  • FAR 22.604-2 Regulatory exemptions.
    …f the statute were not included in the defaulted contract. (4) Newspapers, magazines, or periodicals, contracted for with sales agents or publisher representatives, which are to be delivered by the publishers thereof. (b)(1) Upon the requ…
  • FAR 27.405-4 Other existing data.
    …ubpart is required to be included in— (1) Contracts solely for the acquisition of books, periodicals, and other printed items in the exact form in which these items are to be obtained unless reproduction rights are to be acquired; or (2) …
  • FAR 31.205-43 Trade, business, technical, and professional activity costs.
    …al organizations. (b) Subscriptions to trade, business, professional, or other technical periodicals. (c) When the principal purpose of a meeting, convention, conference, symposium, or seminar is the dissemination of trade, business, tech…
  • FAR 35.016 Broad agency announcement.
    …uant to subpart 5.5, may also be published in noted scientific, technical, or engineering periodicals. The notice must be published no less frequently than annually. (d) Proposals received as a result of the BAA shall be evaluated in accor…
  • DFARS 212.7004 Procedures.
    …ay also publish a notice regarding the CSO in noted scientific, technical, or engineering periodicals. The contracting officer shall publish the notice at least annually. (c) Proposals received in response to the CSO shall be evaluated in …

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.