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48 CFR · Federal Acquisition Regulation and Defense supplement

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41 sections with “resolicit”: the first 40

  • FAR 36.213-2 Presolicitation notices.
    … the head of the contracting activity or a designee, the contracting officer shall issue presolicitation notices on any construction requirement when the proposed contract is expected to exceed the simplified acquisition threshold. Presolic…
  • DFARS 252.215-7007 Notice of Intent to Resolicit.
    As prescribed at 215.371-6, use the following provision: Notice of Intent To Resolicit (JUN 2012) This solicitation provides offerors fewer than 30 days to submit proposals. In the event that only one offer is received in response to this…
  • FAR 5.204 Presolicitation notices.
    Contracting officers must provide access to presolicitation notices through the GPE (see 15.201 and 36.213-2). The contracting officer must synopsize a proposed contract action before issuing any resulting solicitation (see 5.201 and 5.203)…
  • FAR 14.205 Presolicitation notices.
    In lieu of initially forwarding complete bid sets, the contracting officer may send presolicitation notices to concerns. The notice shall— (a) Specify the final date for receipt of requests for a complete bid set; (b) Briefly describe the…
  • FAR 8.1102 Presolicitation requirements.
    (a) Except as specified in 8.1102(b), before preparing solicitations for leasing of motor vehicles, contracting officers shall obtain from the requiring activity a written certification that— (1) The vehicles requested are of maximum fuel …
  • FAR 47.202 Presolicitation planning.
    Contracting officers shall inform activities that plan to acquire transportation or transportation-related services of the applicable lead-time requirements, that is— (a) The Service Contract Labor Standards statute requirement to obtain a…
  • FAR 15.201 Exchanges with industry before receipt of proposals.
    …paragraph (f) of this section regarding restrictions on disclosure of information); (5) Presolicitation notices; (6) Draft RFPs; (7) RFIs; (8) Presolicitation or preproposal conferences; and (9) Site visits. (d) The special notices of…
  • FAR 9.206-1 General.
    …ification requirements, the contracting officer shall take the following steps: (1) Use presolicitation notices in appropriate cases to advise potential suppliers before issuing solicitations involving qualification requirements. The notic…
  • FAR 14.404-1 Cancellation of invitations after opening.
    …) As a general rule, after the opening of bids, an invitation should not be cancelled and resolicited due solely to increased requirements for the items being acquired. Award should be made on the initial invitation for bids and the additio…
  • FAR 15.202 Advisory multi-step process.
    (a) The agency may publish a presolicitation notice (see 5.204) that provides a general description of the scope or purpose of the acquisition and invites potential offerors to submit information that allows the Government to advise the off…
  • FAR 17.106-1 General.
    … Government's liability will be determined by the terms of the applicable contract. (f) Presolicitation or pre-bid conferences. To ensure that all interested sources of supply are thoroughly aware of how multiyear contracting is accomplish…
  • FAR 22.1003-4 Administrative limitations, variations, tolerances, and exemptions.
    …e, if award is to be made without discussions (see FAR 15.306(a)). (3) Contract award or resolicitation. (i) If the apparent successful offeror does not certify to the conditions, the contracting officer shall insert in the contract the ap…
  • FAR 4.403 Responsibilities of contracting officers.
    (a) Presolicitation phase. Contracting officers shall review all proposed solicitations to determine whether access to classified information may be required by offerors, or by a contractor during contract performance. (1) If access to cla…
  • FAR 4.803 Contents of contract files.
    … office contract file. (1) Purchase request, acquisition planning information, and other presolicitation documents. (2) Justifications and approvals, determinations and findings, and associated documents. (3) Evidence of availability of f…
  • FAR 5.405 Exchange of acquisition information.
    …ion of information is particularly beneficial during the period of acquisition planning, presolicitation, evaluation, and pre-award survey. (b) When substantial acquisitions of major items are involved or when the contracting activity deem…
  • FAR 5.701 Scope.
    This subpart prescribes posting requirements for presolicitation and award notices for actions funded in whole or in part by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Pub. L. 111-5) (Recovery Act). The requirements of this subpart…
  • FAR 7.105 Contents of written acquisition plans.
    …s and procedures to: (i) Encourage industry participation by using draft solicitations, presolicitation conferences, and other means of stimulating industry involvement during design and development in recommending the most appropriate app…
  • FAR 9.206-3 Competition.
    (a) Presolicitation. If a qualification requirement applies to an acquisition, the contracting officer shall review the applicable QPL, QML, or QBL or other identification of those sources which have met the requirement before issuing a sol…
  • FAR 10.002 Procedures.
    …rs, and dealers or available on-line. (viii) Conducting interchange meetings or holding presolicitation conferences to involve potential offerors early in the acquisition process. (ix) Reviewing systems such as the System for Award Manage…
  • FAR 14.202-1 Bidding time.
    …ty of requirement; (3) anticipated extent of subcontracting; (4) whether use was made of presolicitation notices; (5) geographic distribution of bidders; and (6) normal transmittal time for both invitations and bids.
  • FAR 14.203-1 Transmittal to prospective bidders.
    Invitations for bids or presolicitation notices must be provided in accordance with 5.102. When a contracting office is located in the United States, any solicitation sent to a prospective bidder located outside the United States shall be s…
  • FAR 14.209 Cancellation of invitations before opening.
    …ropriate, assure prospective bidders that they will be given an opportunity to bid on any resolicitation of bids or any future requirements for the type of supplies or services involved. Cancellations shall be recorded in accordance with 14…
  • FAR 14.211 Release of acquisition information.
    …acquisitions shall not be released outside the Government before solicitation except for presolicitation notices in accordance with 14.205 or 36.213-2, or long-range acquisition estimates in accordance with 5.404, or synopses in accordance …
  • FAR 19.502-2 Total small business set-asides.
    … concerns, the set-aside shall be withdrawn and the requirement, if still valid, shall be resolicited on an unrestricted basis. The small business set-aside does not preclude the award of a contract as described in 19.203. (b) Before setti…
  • FAR 22.1006 Solicitation provisions and contract clauses.
    … the Service Contract Labor Standards statute in accordance with 22.1003-4(d). (ii) When resoliciting in accordance with 22.1003-4(d)(3)(iii), amend the solicitation by removing the provision at 52.222-52 from the solicitation. (4) The co…
  • FAR 22.1009-2 Attempt to identify possible places of performance.
    … via the Internet for lists of prospective offerors and contractors. (c) Responses to a presolicitation notice (see 5.204).
  • FAR 33.103 Protests to the agency.
    …e for acceptance of their offers, to extend the time for acceptance to avoid the need for resolicitation. In the event of failure to obtain such extension of offers, consideration should be given to proceeding with award pursuant to paragra…
  • FAR 33.104 Protests to GAO.
    …me for acceptance of their offer, to extend the time for acceptance to avoid the need for resolicitation. In the event of failure to obtain such extensions of offers, consideration should be given to proceeding under subparagraph (b)(1) of …
  • FAR 34.005-2 Mission-oriented solicitation.
    … would be beneficial and is not prohibited, foreign sources. (2) If appropriate, hold a presolicitation conference (see 15.201) and/or send copies of the proposed solicitation to all prospective offerors for their comments. After evaluatio…
  • FAR 36.213-3 Invitations for bids.
    …l send invitations for bids to prospective bidders who requested them in response to the presolicitation notice, and should send them to other prospective bidders upon their specific request (see 5.102(a)).
  • FAR 52.207-4 Economic Purchase Quantity—Supplies.
    …items. However, the Government reserves the right to amend or cancel the solicitation and resolicit with respect to any individual item in the event quotations received and the Government's requirements indicate that different quantities sh…
  • DFARS 205.203 Publicizing and response time.
    … days for receipt of offers and resulted in only one offer, the contracting officer shall resolicit, allowing an additional period of at least 30 days for receipt of offers, except as provided in 215.371-4 and 215.371-5.
  • DFARS 208.404 Use of Federal Supply Schedules.
    …and FAR part 25 to be made. (iv) Use the provisions at 252.215-7007, Notice of Intent to Resolicit, and 252.215-7008, Only One Offer, as prescribed at 215.371-6 and 215.408(3), respectively.
  • DFARS 212.370 Inapplicability of certain provisions and clauses to contracts and subcontracts for the acquisition of commercial products, commercial services, and commercially available off-the-shelf items.
    ….203-7003, Agency Office of the Inspector General. (c) 252.215-7007, Notice of Intent to Resolicit.
  • DFARS 214.201-6 Solicitation provisions.
    (2) Use the provisions at 252.215-7007, Notice of Intent to Resolicit, and 252.215-7008, Only One Offer, as prescribed at 215.371-6 and 215.408(3), respectively.
  • DFARS 214.209 Cancellation of invitations before opening.
    …ceipt of offers, and resulted in only one offer, the contracting officer shall cancel and resolicit, allowing an additional period of at least 30 days for receipt of offers, as provided in 215.371.
  • DFARS 215.371-2 Promote competition.
    …d be revised in order to promote more competition (see FAR 6.502(b) and 11.002); and (2) Resolicit, allowing an additional period of at least 30 days for receipt of proposals; and (b) For competitive solicitations in which more than one p…
  • DFARS 215.371-3 Fair and reasonable price and the requirement for additional cost or pricing data.
    …ly one offer is received when competitive procedures were used and it is not necessary to resolicit in accordance with 215.371-2(a), then then the contracting officer shall comply with the following: (a) If no additional cost or pricing da…
  • DFARS 215.371-5 Waiver.
    …e head of the contracting activity is authorized to waive the requirement at 215.371-2 to resolicit for an additional period of at least 30 days. (b) This waiver authority cannot be delegated below one level above the contracting officer.
  • DFARS § 215.371-6 215.371-6 Solicitation provision.
    Use the provision at 252.215-7007, Notice of Intent to Resolicit, in competitive solicitations that will be solicited for fewer than 30 days, unless an exception at 215.371-4 applies or the requirement is waived in accordance with 215.371-5…

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