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48 CFR · Federal Acquisition Regulation and Defense supplement

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  • FAR 14.404-2 Rejection of individual bids.
    …d that fails to conform to the essential requirements of the invitation for bids shall be rejected. (b) Any bid that does not conform to the applicable specifications shall be rejected unless the invitation authorized the submission of alt…
  • FAR 52.246-2 Inspection of Supplies—Fixed-Price.
    …plies with or without disposition instructions. (g) The Contractor shall remove supplies rejected or required to be corrected. However, the Contracting Officer may require or permit correction in place, promptly after notice, by and at the…
  • FAR 14.408-4 Economic price adjustment.
    …lly submitted. (3) Bids that contain economic price adjustments with no ceiling shall be rejected unless a clear basis for evaluation exists. (b) Government proposes economic price adjustment. (1) When an invitation contains an economic p…
  • FAR 3.103-2 Evaluating the certification.
    …f restricting competition. If the determination is positive, the bid or proposal shall be rejected; if it is negative, the bid or proposal shall be considered for award. (3) Whenever an offer is rejected under paragraph (b)(1) or (2) of th…
  • FAR 19.704 Subcontracting plan requirements.
    …ed annually by October 30 for the twelve-month period ending September 30. When an SSR is rejected, the contractor is required to submit a revised SSR within 30 days of receiving the notice of SSR rejection; (v) Ensure that its subcontract…
  • FAR 19.705-6 Postaward responsibilities of the contracting officer.
    …sides with the contracting officer who approved the commercial plan. (ii) If a report is rejected, the contracting officer must provide an explanation for the rejection to allow the prime contractor the opportunity to respond specifically …
  • FAR 52.211-8 Time of Delivery.
    …applicable required delivery period specified above, will be considered nonresponsive and rejected. The Government reserves the right to award under either the required delivery schedule or the proposed delivery schedule, when an offeror of…
  • FAR 52.211-9 Desired and Required Time of Delivery.
    …applicable required delivery period specified above, will be considered nonresponsive and rejected. If the offeror proposes no other delivery schedule, the desired delivery schedule above will apply. OFFEROR'S PROPOSED DELIVERY SCHEDULE (…
  • FAR 52.219-6 Notice of Total Small Business Set-Aside.
    …ncerns that are not small business concerns shall be considered nonresponsive and will be rejected. (2) Any award resulting from this solicitation will be made to a small business concern. (End of clause) Alternate I (MAR 2020). As presc…
  • FAR 52.225-12 Notice of Buy American Requirement—Construction Materials Under Trade Agreements.
    …e of the foreign construction material for which an exception was requested— (i) Will be rejected as nonresponsive if this acquisition is conducted by sealed bidding; or (ii) May be accepted if revised during negotiations. (End of provis…
  • FAR 52.225-24 Notice of Required Use of American Iron, Steel, and Manufactured Goods—Buy American Statute—Construction Materials Under Trade Agreements.
    …e of the foreign construction material for which an exception was requested— (i) Will be rejected as nonresponsive if this acquisition is conducted by sealed bidding; or (ii) May be accepted if revised during negotiations. (End of provis…
  • FAR 52.246-12 Inspection of Construction.
    …ropriate adjustment in contract price. The Contractor shall promptly segregate and remove rejected material from the premises. (g) If the Contractor does not promptly replace or correct rejected work, the Government may (1) by contract or …
  • FAR 4.803 Contents of contract files.
    …s or disapprovals of requests for waivers or deviations from contract requirements. (35) Rejected engineering change proposals. (36) Royalty, invention, and copyright reports (including invention disclosures) or reference thereto. (37) C…
  • FAR 9.105-2 Determinations and documentation.
    …with respect to that contract. When an offer on which an award would otherwise be made is rejected because the prospective contractor is found to be nonresponsible, the contracting officer shall make, sign, and place in the contract file a …
  • FAR 9.207 Changes in status regarding qualification requirements.
    …that do not meet the qualification requirement; (2) Products or services were previously rejected and the defects were not corrected when resubmitted for inspection or acceptance; (3) A supplier fails to request reevaluation following cha…
  • FAR 9.405 Effect of listing.
    …actor in response to an invitation for bids shall be entered on the abstract of bids, and rejected unless the agency head determines in writing that there is a compelling reason to consider the bid. (3) Proposals, quotations, or offers rec…
  • FAR 11.403 Supplies or services.
    …y date required by the invitation for bids, the bid shall be considered nonresponsive and rejected. If award is made, the delivery date will be the number of days offered in the bid after the contractor actually receives the notice of award…
  • FAR 14.202-4 Bid samples.
    …ion, if listed in accordance with paragraph (d)(1)(ii) of this section. (4) Bids will be rejected as nonresponsive if the sample fails to conform to each of the characteristics listed in the invitation. (b) When to use. The use of bid sam…
  • FAR 14.404-1 Cancellation of invitations after opening.
    …en met, the invitation shall be cancelled. (c) Invitations may be cancelled and all bids rejected before award but after opening when, consistent with paragraph (a)(1) above, the agency head determines in writing that— (1) Inadequate or a…
  • FAR 14.404-3 Notice to bidders of rejection of all bids.
    …reject all bids, the contracting officer shall notify each bidder that all bids have been rejected and shall state the reason for such action.
  • FAR 14.406 Receipt of an unreadable electronic bid.
    …rtained, the contracting officer immediately shall notify the bidder that the bid will be rejected unless the bidder provides clear and convincing evidence— (a) Of the content of the bid as originally submitted; and (b) That the unreadabl…
  • FAR 15.404-1 Proposal analysis techniques.
    … result in paying unreasonably high prices for contract performance. (3) An offer may be rejected if the contracting officer determines that the lack of balance poses an unacceptable risk to the Government. (h) Review and justification of…
  • FAR 15.606-1 Receipt and initial review.
    … point shall promptly acknowledge receipt and process the proposal. (c) If a proposal is rejected because the proposal does not meet the requirements of paragraph (a) of this subsection, the agency contact point shall promptly inform the o…
  • FAR 19.502-3 Partial set-asides of contracts other than multiple-award contracts.
    … do not qualify as small business concerns shall be considered nonresponsive and shall be rejected on the set-aside portion of partial set-asides. However, before rejecting an offer otherwise eligible for award because of questions concerni…
  • FAR 19.502-4 Partial set-asides of multiple-award contracts.
    … do not qualify as small business concerns shall be considered nonresponsive and shall be rejected on the set-aside portion of partial set-asides. However, before rejecting an offer otherwise eligible for award because of questions concerni…
  • FAR 28.203-1 Acceptability of individual sureties.
    …rt of a bid guarantee is acceptable, the offeror utilizing the individual surety shall be rejected as nonresponsible, except as provided in 28.101-4. A finding of nonresponsibility based on unacceptability of an individual surety, need not …
  • FAR 32.906 Making payments.
    …terest penalty. (4) When it is determined that the designated billing office erroneously rejected a proper invoice and upon resubmission of the invoice, will enter in the payment system the original date the invoice was received by the des…
  • FAR 46.102 Policy.
    …es the Government from performing inspection; (e) Nonconforming supplies or services are rejected, except as otherwise provided in 46.407; (f) Contracts for commercial products rely on a contractor's existing quality assurance system as a…
  • FAR 46.407 Nonconforming supplies or services.
    …matter of law. The notice must, be in writing if— (1) The supplies or services have been rejected at a place other than the contractor's plant; (2) The contractor persists in offering nonconforming supplies or services for acceptance; or …
  • FAR 47.305-3 F.o.b. origin solicitations.
    …gin offers only are desired, a statement that offers submitted on any other basis will be rejected as nonresponsive. (f)(1) The methods of transportation used in evaluating offers. The Government normally uses land transportation by regula…
  • FAR 47.305-4 F.o.b. destination solicitations.
    …tation shall state that offers submitted on a basis other than f.o.b. destination will be rejected as nonresponsive. (c) When supplies will or may be purchased f.o.b. destination but inspection and acceptance will be at origin, the contrac…
  • FAR 50.102-3 Limitations on exercise of authority.
    …ent or modification shall increase the contract price to an amount higher than the lowest rejected bid of any responsible bidder, if the contract was negotiated under 14.404-1(f). (d) No informal commitment shall be formalized unless— (1)…
  • FAR 52.214-16 Minimum Bid Acceptance Period.
    …ar days. (e) A bid allowing less than the Government's minimum acceptance period will be rejected. (f) The bidder agrees to execute all that it has undertaken to do, in compliance with its bid, if that bid is accepted in writing within (1…
  • FAR 52.214-34 Submission of Offers in the English Language.
    …citation shall be in the English language. Offers received in other than English shall be rejected. (End of provision)
  • FAR 52.214-35 Submission of Offers in U.S. Currency.
    …on shall be in terms of U.S. dollars. Offers received in other than U.S. dollars shall be rejected. (End of provision)
  • FAR 52.215-1 Instructions to Offerors—Competitive Acquisition.
    …d as indicated by the application of cost or price analysis techniques. A proposal may be rejected if the Contracting Officer determines that the lack of balance poses an unacceptable risk to the Government. (9) If a cost realism analysis …
  • FAR 52.219-7 Notice of Partial Small Business Set-Aside.
    … do not qualify as small business concerns shall be considered nonresponsive and shall be rejected on the set-aside portion of the requirement. (2) Small business concerns may submit offers and compete for the non-set-aside portion and the…
  • FAR 52.219-9 Small Business Subcontracting Plan.
    …eographical region; and philanthropic contributions. This report shall be acknowledged or rejected in eSRS by the Contracting Officer who approved the plan. This report shall be submitted within 30 days after the end of the Government's fis…
  • FAR 52.225-10 Notice of Buy American Requirement—Construction Materials.
    …e of the foreign construction material for which an exception was requested— (i) Will be rejected as nonresponsive if this acquisition is conducted by sealed bidding; or (ii) May be accepted if revised during negotiations. (End of provis…
  • FAR 52.225-22 Notice of Required Use of American Iron, Steel, and Manufactured Goods—Buy American Statute—Construction Materials.
    …e of the foreign construction material for which an exception was requested— (i) Will be rejected as nonresponsive if this acquisition is conducted by sealed bidding; or (ii) May be accepted if revised during negotiations. (End of provis…

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