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48 CFR · Federal Acquisition Regulation and Defense supplement

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40 sections with “prospective offerors”

  • DFARS 252.237-7012 Instruction to offerors (count-of-articles).
    … Officer may award by individual lot when it is more advantageous to the Government. (d) Prospective offerors may inspect the types of articles to be serviced. Contact the Contracting Officer to make inspection arrangements. (End of provi…
  • DFARS 252.237-7013 Instruction to offerors (bulk weight).
    … Officer may award by individual lot when it is more advantageous to the Government. (d) Prospective offerors may inspect the types of articles to be serviced. Contact the Contracting Officer to make inspection arrangements. (End of provi…
  • FAR 2.101 Definitions.
    …ctual, not judgmental; and are verifiable. While they do not indicate the accuracy of the prospective contractor's judgment about estimated future costs or projections, they do include the data forming the basis for that judgment. Cost or p…
  • FAR 9.105-1 Obtaining information.
    …contracting officer shall possess or obtain information sufficient to be satisfied that a prospective contractor currently meets the applicable standards in 9.104. (b)(1) Generally, the contracting officer shall obtain information regardin…
  • FAR 15.408 Solicitation provisions and contract clauses.
    …organizations (see subpart 31.2). (i) Waiver of Facilities Capital Cost of Money. If the prospective contractor does not propose facilities capital cost of money in its offer, the contracting officer shall insert the clause at 52.215-17, W…
  • FAR 33.104 Protests to GAO.
    …mented in the agency's file. (ii) When a protest is filed with the GAO, and an actual or prospective offeror so requests, the procuring agency shall, in accordance with any applicable protective orders, provide actual or prospective offero…
  • FAR 52.102 Incorporating provisions and clauses.
    …Government of fill-in material (see 52.104); or (4) Require completion by the offeror or prospective contractor. This instruction also applies to provisions completed as annual representations and certifications. (b) Except for provisions…
  • DFARS 252.215-7010 Requirements for Certified Cost or Pricing Data and Data Other Than Certified Cost or Pricing Data.
    …ation shall be provided in the form in which it is regularly maintained by the Offeror or prospective subcontractor in its business operations. (3) If the Offeror redacts data that identifies the customer (see DFARS 234.7002(e)(2)), then t…
  • FAR 7.105 Contents of written acquisition plans.
    … guidance only, shall become mandatory. (b) Plan of action—(1) Sources. (i) Indicate the prospective sources of supplies or services that can meet the need. (ii) Consider required sources of supplies or services (see part 8) and sources i…
  • FAR 9.204 Responsibilities for establishment of a qualification requirement.
    … of time, considering the duration and dollar value of anticipated future requirements. A prospective contractor requesting the United States to bear testing and evaluation costs must certify as to its status as a small business concern und…
  • FAR 9.206-1 General.
    …rement and establish an allowable time period, consistent with delivery requirements, for prospective offerors to demonstrate their abilities to meet the standards specified for qualification. The notice shall be publicized in accordance wi…
  • FAR 15.203 Requests for proposals.
    …sals (RFPs) are used in negotiated acquisitions to communicate Government requirements to prospective contractors and to solicit proposals. RFPs for competitive acquisitions shall, at a minimum, describe the— (1) Government's requirement; …
  • FAR 27.202-2 Notice of Government as a licensee.
    …ent and the contracting officer believes that the licensed patent will be applicable to a prospective contract, the Government should furnish the prospective offerors with— (1) Notice of the license; (2) The number of the patent; and (3)…
  • FAR 34.005-2 Mission-oriented solicitation.
    …licitation conference (see 15.201) and/or send copies of the proposed solicitation to all prospective offerors for their comments. After evaluation of these comments, the solicitation should be revised, if appropriate. (b) The contracting …
  • FAR 36.211 Distribution of advance notices and solicitations.
    (a) Advance notices and solicitations should be distributed to reach as many prospective offerors as practicable. Contracting officers may send notices and solicitations to organizations that maintain, without charge to the public, display …
  • FAR 47.202 Presolicitation planning.
    …2.10); (b) The possible requirement to provide, during the solicitation period, time for prospective offerors or contractors to inspect origin and destination locations; or (c) The possible requirement for inspection by agency personnel o…
  • FAR 1.706 Expiration.
    … the expiration date specified in the document. When a solicitation has been furnished to prospective offerors before the expiration date, the authority under the D&F will continue until award of the contract(s) resulting from that solicita…
  • FAR 10.002 Procedures.
    …ion of the notice at 5.201 is required, the contracting officer shall include a notice to prospective offerors that the Government does not intend to use part 12 for the acquisition. (e) The head of the agency shall document the results of…
  • FAR 15.204-5 Part IV—Representations and Instructions.
    … offerors or respondents in preparing proposals or responses to requests for information. Prospective offerors or respondents may be instructed to submit proposals or information in a specific format or severable parts to facilitate evaluat…
  • FAR 15.206 Amending the solicitation.
    …proposed for issuance after offers have been received is so substantial as to exceed what prospective offerors reasonably could have anticipated, so that additional sources likely would have submitted offers had the substance of the amendme…
  • FAR 15.303 Responsibilities.
    …1) After release of a solicitation, serve as the focal point for inquiries from actual or prospective offerors; (2) After receipt of proposals, control exchanges with offerors in accordance with 15.306; and (3) Award the contract(s).
  • FAR 15.507 Protests against award.
    …contracting officer shall provide the information in paragraph (c) of this section to all prospective offerors for the new solicitation; or (2) Issue a new request for revised proposals on the protested contract award, the contracting offi…
  • FAR 22.404-5 Expiration of project wage determinations.
    …tation to incorporate the new determination, and furnish the wage rate information to all prospective offerors that were sent a solicitation if the closing date for receipt of proposals has not yet occurred, or to all offerors that have not…
  • FAR 22.1009-2 Attempt to identify possible places of performance.
    …contractors and their competitors. (b) Databases available via the Internet for lists of prospective offerors and contractors. (c) Responses to a presolicitation notice (see 5.204).
  • FAR 36.210 Inspection of site and examination of data.
    The contracting officer should make appropriate arrangements for prospective offerors to inspect the work site and to have the opportunity to examine data available to the Government which may provide information concerning the performance …
  • FAR 47.207-3 Description of shipment, origin, and destination.
    …a clear nontechnical description. Include additional details necessary to ensure that the prospective offerors have complete information about the freight; e.g., size, weight, hazardous material, whether packed for export, or unusual value.…
  • FAR 1.301 Policy.
    …elationship between the agency, including any of its suborganizations, and contractors or prospective contractors. (2) Subject to the authorities in (c) below and other statutory authority, an agency head may issue or authorize the issuanc…
  • FAR 4.1201 Policy.
    …219-28. (c) Data in SAM is archived and is electronically retrievable. Therefore, when a prospective contractor has completed representations and certifications electronically in SAM, the contracting officer must reference the date of SAM …
  • FAR 9.104-2 Special standards.
    …l offerors. (b) Contracting officers shall award contracts for subsistence only to those prospective contractors that meet the general standards in 9.104-1 and are approved in accordance with agency sanitation standards and procedures.
  • FAR 9.202 Policy.
    … determination that it is unreasonable to specify the standards for qualification which a prospective offeror (or its product) must satisfy. After considering any comments of the advocate for competition reviewing the determination, the hea…
  • FAR 14.503-2 Step two.
    …mitted acceptable proposals in step one will be listed through the GPE for the benefit of prospective subcontractors (see 5.207).
  • FAR 15.305 Proposal evaluation.
    …osal evaluation is an assessment of the proposal and the offeror's ability to perform the prospective contract successfully. An agency shall evaluate competitive proposals and then assess their relative qualities solely on the factors and s…
  • FAR 15.604 Agency points of contact.
    …cited proposal acceptable for formal evaluation. (2) Requirements concerning responsible prospective contractors (see subpart 9.1), and organizational conflicts of interest (see subpart 9.5). (3) Guidance on preferred methods for submitti…
  • FAR 17.605 Award, renewal, and extension.
    …cting officers should take extraordinary steps before award to assure themselves that the prospective contractor's technical and managerial capacity are sufficient, that organizational conflicts of interest are adequately covered, and that …
  • FAR 17.802 Policy.
    …he awardee(s) of any reverse auction; or (3) Determine that the offeror is a responsible prospective contractor (see 9.103, 9.104-1, and 9.405(d)).
  • FAR 27.202-5 Solicitation provisions and contract clause.
    …rnate I. (b) If the Government is obligated to pay a royalty on a patent involved in the prospective contract, insert in the solicitation a provision substantially the same as the provision at 52.227-7, Patents—Notice of Government License…
  • DFARS 209.572 Conflicts of interest in certain consulting services.
    …ontract oversight entity and approved by the contracting officer. (d) Waiver. (1) If the prospective contractor(s) certified, in response to paragraph (c) of the provision at 252.209-7012, Prohibition Relating to Conflicts of Interest in C…
  • DFARS 225.7024-3 Procedures.
    …plified acquisition threshold, the contracting officer— (1) May request records from the prospective contractor to verify compliance with the following statutes and regulations only when the head of the contracting activity determines in w…
  • DFARS 252.215-7009 Proposal Adequacy Checklist.
    …not provided. In preparation of the offeror's checklist, offerors may elect to have their prospective subcontractors use the same or similar checklist as appropriate. Proposal Adequacy Checklist (End of provision)
  • DFARS 252.225-7065 Restriction on Acquisition of Fuel for Overseas Contingency Operations.
    … eligible for award. (c) Compliance. (1) When requested by the Contracting Officer, the prospective Contractor shall submit records necessary to demonstrate compliance with applicable laws and regulations regarding export-controlled items…

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.