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58 sections with “plant or equipment”: the first 40

  • DFARS 217.171 Multiyear contracts for services.
    …when entering into a multiyear contract for services: (1) The portion of the cost of any plant or equipment amortized as a cost of contract performance should not exceed the ratio between the period of contract performance and the anticipa…
  • FAR 52.247-29 F.o.b. Origin.
    …ering agency. (c) These Contractor responsibilities are specified for performance at the plant or plants at which the supplies are to be finally inspected and accepted, unless the facilities for shipment by carrier's equipment are not avai…
  • FAR 52.247-31 F.o.b. Origin, Freight Allowed.
    …ering agency. (c) These Contractor responsibilities are specified for performance at the plant or plants at which the supplies are to be finally inspected and accepted, unless the facilities for shipment by carrier's equipment are not avai…
  • FAR 52.247-32 F.o.b. Origin, Freight Prepaid.
    …the contract. (c) These Contractor responsibilities are specified for performance at the plant or plants at which these supplies are to be finally inspected and accepted, unless the facilities for shipment by carrier's equipment are not av…
  • FAR 52.247-55 F.o.b. Point for Delivery of Government-Furnished Property.
    …ernment makes delivery by railroad, the f.o.b. point will be private siding, Contractor's plant. If the Contractor's plant is not served by rail, the f.o.b. point will be railroad cars in the same or nearest city having rail service. The Go…
  • DFARS 252.236-7003 Payment for mobilization and preparatory work.
    …h payment is provided under the terms of this contract, as follows— (1) For construction plant and equipment exceeding $25,000 in value per unit (as appraised by the Contracting Officer at the work site) acquired for the execution of the w…
  • FAR 52.246-19 Warranty of Systems and Equipment under Performance Specifications or Design Criteria.
    …ontract (irrespective of the f.o.b. point or the point of acceptance) to the Contractor's plant and return to the place of delivery specified in this contract. The Contractor shall also bear the responsibility for the supplies while in tran…
  • FAR 52.247-33 F.o.b. Origin, With Differentials.
    …nclude only the lowest cost to the Contractor for loading of shipment at the Contractor's plant or most favorable shipping point. The cost beyond that plant or point of bringing the supplies to the place of delivery and the cost of loading,…
  • DFARS 252.217-7016 Plant protection.
    As prescribed in 217.7104(a), use the following clause: Plant Protection (DEC 1991) (a) The Contractor shall provide, for the plant and work in process, reasonable safeguards against all hazards, including unauthorized entry, malicious mi…
  • FAR 2.101 Definitions.
    … limitation, buildings, structures, and improvements of all types, such as bridges, dams, plants, highways, parkways, streets, subways, tunnels, sewers, mains, power lines, pumping stations, heavy generators, railways, airports, terminals, …
  • FAR 22.401 Definitions.
    …roject; (2) Except as provided in paragraph (3) of this definition, includes fabrication plants, mobile factories, batch plants, borrow pits, job headquarters, tool yards, etc., provided— (i) They are dedicated exclusively, or nearly so, …
  • FAR 31.205-29 Plant protection costs.
    Costs of items such as (a) wages, uniforms, and equipment of personnel engaged in plant protection, (b) depreciation on plant protection capital assets, and (c) necessary expenses to comply with military requirements, are allowable.
  • FAR 45.602-3 Screening.
    The screening period begins upon the plant clearance officer's acceptance of an inventory disposal schedule. The plant clearance officer shall determine whether standard or special screening is appropriate and initiate screening actions. (…
  • FAR 47.305-3 F.o.b. origin solicitations.
    … Following are situations that might impose on the contractor a substantial cost above at plant or commercial shipping point prices because of Government-required routings: (i) The loading nature of the supplies; e.g., wheeled vehicles. (…
  • FAR 52.219-9 Small Business Subcontracting Plan.
    …mmercial services sold by either the entire company or a portion thereof (e.g., division, plant, or product line). Commercial product means a product that satisfies the definition of “commercial product” in Federal Acquisition Regulation (…
  • FAR 52.236-15 Schedules for Construction Contracts.
    …g and completing the several salient features of the work (including acquiring materials, plant, and equipment). The schedule shall be in the form of a progress chart of suitable scale to indicate appropriately the percentage of work schedu…
  • FAR 52.245-1 Government Property.
    …ractor's business; (2) All or substantially all of the Contractor's operation at any one plant or separate location; or (3) A separate and complete major industrial operation. Demilitarization means rendering a product unusable for, and …
  • FAR 52.247-57 Transportation Transit Privilege Credits.
    …truckload shipments of the supplies from offeror's original source, via offeror's transit plant or point, to the Government destination(s) including the carrier's transit privilege charge, less the applicable transit credit (i.e., the amoun…
  • FAR 9.508 Examples.
    … A agrees to provide systems engineering and technical direction for the Navy on the powerplant for a group of submarines (i.e., turbines, drive shafts, propellers, etc.). Company A should not be allowed to supply any powerplant components.…
  • FAR 15.407-2 Make-or-buy programs.
    …e contracting officer to evaluate the categorization or proposal. (v) Designation of the plant or division proposed to make each item or perform each work effort, and a statement as to whether the existing or proposed new facility is in or…
  • FAR 17.103 Definitions.
    …ns those costs which are generally incurred on a one-time basis and include such costs as plant or equipment relocation, plant rearrangement, special tooling and special test equipment, preproduction engineering, initial spoilage and rework…
  • FAR 32.202-4 Security for Government financing.
    …contract shall specify what the lien is upon, e.g., the work in process, the contractor's plant, or the contractor's inventory. Contracting officers may be flexible in the choice of assets. The contract must also give the Government a right…
  • FAR 45.602-2 Reutilization priorities.
    Plant clearance officers shall initiate reutilization actions for all property not meeting the abandonment or destruction criteria of 45.603(b). Authorized methods, listed in descending order from highest to lowest priority, are— (a) Reuse…
  • FAR 52.212-3 Offeror Representations and Certifications—Commercial Products and Commercial Services.
    …lies; (3) PSG 88, Live Animals; (4) PSG 89, Subsistence; (5) PSC 9410, Crude Grades of Plant Materials; (6) PSC 9430, Miscellaneous Crude Animal Products, Inedible; (7) PSC 9440, Miscellaneous Crude Agricultural and Forestry Products; …
  • FAR 52.222-2 Payment for Overtime Premiums.
    …uties in connection with administration, protection, transportation, maintenance, standby plant protection, operation of utilities, or accounting; (3) To perform tests, industrial processes, laboratory procedures, loading or unloading of t…
  • FAR 52.232-12 Advance Payments.
    … (1) The Contractor shall maintain with responsible insurance carriers— (i) Insurance on plant and equipment against fire and other hazards, to the extent that similar properties are usually insured by others operating plants and propertie…
  • DFARS 252.217-7010 Performance.
    …thout charge and without specific requirement in a job order,— (1) Make available at the plant to personnel of the vessel while in dry dock or on a marine railway, sanitary lavatory and similar facilities acceptable to the Contracting Offi…
  • DFARS 252.236-7004 Payment for mobilization and demobilization.
    …ent will pay all costs for the mobilization and demobilization of all of the Contractor's plant and equipment at the contract lump sum price for this item. (1) ________ percent of the lump sum price upon completion of the contractor's mobi…
  • DFARS 253.209-1 Responsible prospective contractors.
    …he surveying activity will refer this factor to the Defense Security Service (DSS)). (E) Plant safety. An assessment of the prospective contractor's ability to meet the safety requirements in the solicitation. (F) Environmental/energy con…
  • FAR 17.106-1 General.
    …r the multiyear requirements. Nonrecurring costs include such costs, where applicable, as plant or equipment relocation or rearrangement, special tooling and special test equipment, preproduction engineering, initial rework, initial spoilag…
  • FAR 31.109 Advance agreements.
    …s and idle capacity; (10) Severance pay to employees on support service contracts; (11) Plant reconversion; (12) Professional services (e.g., legal, accounting, and engineering); (13) General and administrative costs (e.g., corporate, d…
  • FAR 42.302 Contract administration functions.
    …nd coordinate the removal of urgently required material from the strikebound contractor's plant upon instruction from, and authorization of, the contracting officer. (35) Perform traffic management services, including issuance and control …
  • FAR 52.246-18 Warranty of Supplies of a Complex Nature.
    …ontract (irrespective of the f.o.b. point or the point of acceptance) to the Contractor's plant and return. (6) All implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose are excluded from any obligation contained in th…
  • DFARS 252.217-7009 Default.
    …ficer may deem appropriate, arrange for the completion of the work so terminated, at such plant or plants, including that of the Contractor, as may be designated by the Contracting Officer. (i) The Contractor shall continue the performance…
  • FAR 15.407-4 Should-cost review.
    …an range from a large-scale review examining the contractor's entire operation (including plant-wide overhead and selected major subcontractors) to a small-scale tailored review examining specific portions of a contractor's operation. (b) …
  • FAR 31.205-17 Idle facilities and idle capacity costs.
    …other related costs; e.g., property taxes, insurance, and depreciation. Facilities means plant or any portion thereof (including land integral to the operation), equipment, individually or collectively, or any other tangible capital asset,…
  • FAR 46.706 Warranty terms and conditions.
    …ontract (irrespective of the f.o.b. point or the point of acceptance) to the contractor's plant and subsequent return. When defective items are returned to the contractor from other than the place of delivery specified in the contract, or w…
  • DFARS 231.205-70 External restructuring costs.
    …ings and redeployments of a contractor's productive facilities or workforce (e.g., normal plant rearrangement or employee relocation), nor do they include other routine or ordinary activities charged as indirect costs that would otherwise h…
  • DFARS 236.570 Additional provisions and clauses.
    …this clause for major construction contracts that require— (A) Major or special items of plant and equipment; or (B) Large stockpiles of material which are in excess of the type, kind, and quantity which would be normal for a contractor q…
  • FAR 17.107 Options.
    …cers must follow the requirements of subpart 17.2. Options should not include charges for plant and equipment already amortized, or other nonrecurring charges which were included in the basic contract.

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.