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68 sections with “progress payment rate”: the first 40

  • FAR 32.501-1 Customary progress payment rates.
    (a) The customary progress payment rate is 80 percent, applicable to the total costs of performing the contract. The customary rate for contracts with small business concerns is 85 percent. (b) The contracting officer must— (1) Consider a…
  • DFARS 252.232-7004 DoD Progress Payment Rates.
    As prescribed in 232.502-4-70(b), use the following clause: DoD Progress Payment Rates (OCT 2014) If the Contractor is a small business concern, the Progress Payments clause of this contract is modified to change each mention of the progr…
  • DFARS 232.501-1 Customary progress payment rates.
    (a) The customary progress payment rates for DoD contracts, including contracts that contain foreign military sales (FMS) requirements, are 80 percent for large business concerns and 90 percent for small business concerns.
  • FAR 52.232-16 Progress Payments.
    As prescribed in 32.502-4(a), insert the following clause: Progress Payments (NOV 2021) The Government will make progress payments to the Contractor when requested as work progresses, but not more frequently than monthly, in amounts of $2…
  • DFARS 252.232-7018 Progress Payments—Multiple Lots.
    As prescribed in 232.502-4-70(c), use the following clause: Progress Payments—Multiple Lots (MAY 2023) (a) Definitions. As used in this clause— Lot means one or more fixed-price deliverable line items or deliverable subline items represe…
  • FAR 32.501-2 Unusual progress payments.
    (a) The contracting officer may provide unusual progress payments only if— (1) The contract necessitates predelivery expenditures that are large in relation to contract price and in relation to the contractor's working capital and credit; …
  • FAR 32.503-5 Administration of progress payments.
    (a) While the ACO may, in approving progress payment requests under 32.503-3 above, rely on the contractor's accounting system and certification without prepayment review, postpayment reviews (including audits when considered necessary) sha…
  • FAR 32.504 Subcontracts under prime contracts providing progress payments.
    …include either performance-based payments, provided they meet the criteria in 32.1003, or progress payments, provided they meet the criteria in subpart 32.5 for customary progress payments, but not both. Subcontracts for commercial purchase…
  • DFARS 252.232-7016 Notice of Progress Payments or Performance-Based Payments.
    As prescribed in 232.1005-70(c), insert the following provision: Notice of Progress Payments or Performance-Based Payments (APR 2020) (a) The need for customary progress payments in accordance with subpart 32.5 of the Federal Acquisition …
  • FAR 32.110 Payment of subcontractors under cost-reimbursement prime contracts.
    …g conditions: (a) The payments are made under the criteria in subpart 32.5 for customary progress payments based on costs, 32.202-1 for commercial product or commercial service purchase financing, or 32.1003 for performance-based payments,…
  • FAR 32.503-10 Establishing alternate liquidation rates.
    …iquidation rate is— (1) High enough to result in Government recoupment of the applicable progress payments on each billing; and (2) Supported by documentation included in the administration office contract file. (b) The minimum liquidati…
  • DFARS 252.232-7002 Progress Payments for Foreign Military Sales Acquisitions.
    As prescribed in 232.502-4-70(a), use the following clause: Progress Payments for Foreign Military Sales Acquisitions (MAY 2023) If this contract includes foreign military sales (FMS) requirements, the Contractor shall— (a) Submit separa…
  • FAR 32.503-6 Suspension or reduction of payments.
    (a) General. The Progress Payments clause provides a Government right to reduce or suspend progress payments, or to increase the liquidation rate, under specified conditions. These conditions and actions are discussed in paragraphs (b) thro…
  • FAR 32.503-9 Liquidation rates—alternate method.
    …n rate would result in the Government recouping under each invoice the full extent of the progress payments applicable to the costs allocable to that invoice; (6) The contractor would not be paid for more than the costs of items delivered …
  • FAR 32.904 Determining payment due dates.
    …rmination of an interest penalty on the actual date of acceptance. (ii) The due date for progress payments is the 30th day after Government approval of contractor estimates of work or services accomplished. For the sole purpose of computin…
  • FAR 52.216-7 Allowable Cost and Payment.
    …Invoicing. (1) The Government will make payments to the Contractor when requested as work progresses, but (except for small business concerns) not more often than once every 2 weeks, in amounts determined to be allowable by the Contracting …
  • FAR 52.232-5 Payments Under Fixed-Price Construction Contracts.
    …Government shall pay the Contractor the contract price as provided in this contract. (b) Progress payments. The Government shall make progress payments monthly as the work proceeds, or at more frequent intervals as determined by the Contra…
  • FAR 52.232-27 Prompt Payment for Construction Contracts.
    …re several types of invoice payments that may occur under this contract, as follows: (i) Progress payments, if provided for elsewhere in this contract, based on Contracting Officer approval of the estimated amount and value of work or serv…
  • DFARS 252.217-7007 Payments.
    As prescribed in 217.7104(a), use the following clause: Payments (DEC 1991) (a) Progress payments, as used in this clause, means payments made before completion of work in progress under a job order. (b) Upon submission by the Contractor…
  • FAR 32.501 General.
    Progress payments may be customary or unusual. Customary progress payments are those made under the general guidance in this subpart, using the customary progress payment rate, the cost base, and frequency of payment established in the Prog…
  • FAR 32.502-4 Contract clauses.
    (a)(1) Insert the clause at 52.232-16, Progress Payments, in— (i) Solicitations that may result in contracts providing for progress payments based on costs; and (ii) Fixed-price contracts under which the Government will provide progress p…
  • FAR 32.503-8 Liquidation rates—ordinary method.
    The Government recoups progress payments through the deduction of liquidations from payments that would otherwise be due to the contractor for completed contract items. To determine the amount of the liquidation, the contracting officer app…
  • FAR 32.503-12 Maximum unliquidated amount.
    (a) The contracting officer shall ensure that any excess of the unliquidated progress payments over the contractual limitation in paragraph (a) of the Progress Payments clause in the contract is promptly corrected through one or more of the…
  • FAR 52.232-12 Advance Payments.
    …nting control over the property on its books and records. (3) If, at any time during the progress of the work on the contract, it becomes necessary to deliver to a third person any items or materials on which the Government has a lien, the…
  • FAR 52.237-4 Payment by Government to Contractor.
    …overnment will pay to the Contractor ___ [fill in amount]. (b) The Government shall make progress payments monthly as the work proceeds, or at more frequent intervals as determined by the Contracting Officer, on estimates approved by the C…
  • DFARS 215.404-71-3 Contract type risk and working capital adjustment.
    …jective for contract type risk. It only applies to fixed-price contracts that provide for progress payments. Though it uses a formula approach, it is not intended to be an exact calculation of the cost of working capital. Its purpose is to …
  • DFARS 232.502-4-70 Additional clauses.
    (a) Use the clause at 252.232-7002, Progress Payments for Foreign Military Sales Acquisitions, in solicitations and contracts that— (i) Contain FMS requirements; and (ii) Provide for progress payments. (b) Use the clause at 252.232-7004,…
  • DFARS 232.503-6 Suspension or reduction of payments.
    …contracting officer must prepare a supplementary analysis of the contractor's request for progress payments and calculate the loss ratio adjustment using the procedures in FAR 32.503-6(g). (ii) The contracting officer may request the contr…
  • FAR 32.112-1 Subcontractor assertions of nonpayment.
    …er may determine— (1) For a construction contract, whether the contractor has made— (i) Progress payments to the subcontractor or supplier in compliance with Chapter 39 of Title 31, United States Code (Prompt Payment Act); or (ii) Final …
  • DFARS 252.232-7003 Electronic Submission of Payment Requests and Receiving Reports.
    …; (ii) Performance-based payments; (iii) Commercial advance and interim payments; (iv) Progress payments based on cost under the clause at Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 52.232-16, Progress Payments; (v) Progress payments based on…
  • FAR 32.102 Description of contract financing methods.
    …e of the contracts. Since they are not measured by performance, they differ from partial, progress, or other payments based on the performance or partial performance of a contract. Advance payments may be made to prime contractors for the p…
  • FAR 32.502-2 Contract finance office clearance.
    …ated under agency procedures before taking any of the following actions: (a) Providing a progress payment rate higher than the customary rate (see 32.501-1). (b) Deviating from the progress payments terms prescribed in this part. (c) Pro…
  • FAR 52.236-15 Schedules for Construction Contracts.
    …luding 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 scheduled for completion by any given date during the period. If the…
  • DFARS 252.232-7005 Reimbursement of Subcontractor Advance Payments—DoD Mentor-Protégé Program.
    …yments made to a protégé firm shall be paid and administered as if there were 100 percent progress payments. The Contractor shall include as a separate attachment with each Standard Form (SF) 1443, Contractor's Request for Progress Payment,…
  • FAR 49.112-1 Partial payments.
    …ny partial payment otherwise payable under 49.112-1(b)— (1) All unliquidated balances of progress and advance payments (including interest) made to the contractor, which are allocable to the terminated portion of the contract; and (2) The…
  • FAR 52.216-5 Price Redetermination—Prospective.
    …) and accepted by the Government (including amounts applied or to be applied to liquidate progress payments). (2) The statement required by subparagraph (1) above need not be submitted for any quarter for which either no costs are to be re…
  • FAR 52.216-6 Price Redetermination—Retroactive.
    …) and accepted by the Government (including amounts applied or to be applied to liquidate progress payments). (2) Notwithstanding any provision of this contract authorizing greater payments, if on any quarterly statement the amount under s…
  • FAR 52.216-16 Incentive Price Revision—Firm Target.
    …) and accepted by the Government (including amounts applied or to be applied to liquidate progress payments). (2) Notwithstanding any provision of this contract authorizing greater payments, if on any quarterly statement the amount under s…
  • FAR 52.216-17 Incentive Price Revision—Successive Targets.
    …) and accepted by the Government (including amounts applied or to be applied to liquidate progress payments). (2) Notwithstanding any provision of this contract authorizing greater payments, if on any quarterly statement the amount under s…
  • FAR 52.216-26 Payments of Allowable Costs Before Definitization.
    … (c) Invoicing. Payments shall be made promptly to the Contractor when requested as work progresses, but (except for small business concerns) not more often than every 2 weeks, in amounts approved by the Contracting Officer. The Contractor…

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