48 CFR · Federal Acquisition Regulation and Defense supplement

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12 sections with “priced proposals”

  • FAR 15.408 Solicitation provisions and contract clauses.
    … (that is, new contract, change order, price revision/redetermination, letter contract, unpriced order, or other); (6) Proposed cost; profit or fee; and total; (7) Whether you will require the use of Government property in the performance…
  • FAR 30.604 Processing changes to disclosed or established cost accounting practices.
    … each of the following groups: (A) Fixed-price contracts and subcontracts. (B) Flexibly-priced contracts and subcontracts. (iii) Any other method that provides a reasonable approximation of the total increase or decrease in cost accumula…
  • FAR 52.230-6 Administration of Cost Accounting Standards.
    …me-and-materials and labor-hours contracts and subcontracts (FAR Subpart 16.6). Flexibly-priced contracts and subcontracts means— (1) Fixed-price contracts and subcontracts described at FAR 16.203-1(a)(2), 16.204, 16.205, and 16.206; (2)…
  • FAR 34.005-4 Demonstration contracts.
    …he demonstration phase should provide for contractors to submit, by the end of the phase, priced proposals, totally funded by the Government, for full-scale development. The contracting officer should provide contractors with operational te…
  • FAR 34.005-5 Full-scale development contracts.
    …icable, the full-scale development contracts should provide for the contractors to submit priced proposals for production that are based on the latest quantity, schedule, and logistics requirements and other considerations that will be used…
  • FAR 42.302 Contract administration functions.
    …y delivery schedule change with the contracting office. (2) Negotiate prices and execute priced exhibits for unpriced orders issued by the contracting officer under basic ordering agreements. (3) Negotiate or negotiate and execute supplem…
  • FAR 2.101 Definitions.
    … disclosure of the competing offerors' identity, and have the opportunity to submit lower priced offers until the close of the auction. Scrap means personal property that has no value except its basic metallic, mineral, or organic content.…
  • FAR 14.501 General.
    …but not responsibility as defined in 9.1. (b) Step two involves the submission of sealed priced bids by those who submitted acceptable technical proposals in step one. Bids submitted in step two are evaluated and the awards made in accorda…
  • FAR 15.404-1 Proposal analysis techniques.
    …r separate line items of an indefinite-delivery contract. (2) All offers with separately priced line items or subline items shall be analyzed to determine if the prices are unbalanced. If cost or price analysis techniques indicate that an …
  • FAR 48.101 General.
    …nd level of effort required by the Government's program plan and included as a separately priced item of work in the contract Schedule. No value engineering (VE) sharing is permitted in architect-engineer contracts. All other contracts with…
  • FAR 52.248-2 Value Engineering—Architect-Engineer.
    …ent design state or at such stages as the Contracting Officer may direct. Each separately priced line item for VE services shall define specifically the scope of work to be accomplished and may include VE studies of items other than design …
  • DFARS 207.106 Additional requirements for major systems.
    …ditional guidance see PGI 207.105(b)(14)(ii)(2); (iii) Address the merits of including a priced contract option for the future delivery of technical data and computer software, and associated license rights, that were not acquired upon ini…

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