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54 sections with “responsive”: the first 40

  • FAR 14.301 Responsiveness of bids.
    (a) To be considered for award, a bid must comply in all material respects with the invitation for bids. Such compliance enables bidders to stand on an equal footing and maintain the integrity of the sealed bidding system. (b) Facsimile bi…
  • DFARS 252.225-7021 Trade Agreements.
    … (2)(i) Offers of U.S.-made, qualifying country, or designated country end products from responsive, responsible offerors are either not received or are insufficient to fill the Government's requirements; or (ii) A national interest waive…
  • DFARS 236.273 Construction in foreign countries.
    … Kuwait, and Iraq), shall be awarded only to United States firms, unless— (1) The lowest responsive and responsible offer of a United States firm exceeds the lowest responsive and responsible offer of a foreign firm by more than 20 percent…
  • FAR 14.202-4 Bid samples.
    …pecification or purchase description. (2) Bid samples will be used only to determine the responsiveness of the bid and will not be used to determine a bidder's ability to produce the required items. (3) Bid samples may be examined for any…
  • FAR 14.404-1 Cancellation of invitations after opening.
    … have been opened, award must be made to that responsible bidder who submitted the lowest responsive bid, unless there is a compelling reason to reject all bids and cancel the invitation. (2) Every effort shall be made to anticipate change…
  • FAR 14.404-4 Restrictions on disclosure of descriptive literature.
    … prevents the public disclosure of such literature, the restriction may render the bid nonresponsive. The restriction renders the bid nonresponsive if it prohibits the disclosure of sufficient information to permit competing bidders to know…
  • FAR 14.407-3 Other mistakes disclosed before award.
    …rd. The authority to permit correction of bids is limited to bids that, as submitted, are responsive to the invitation and may not be used to permit correction of bids to make them responsive. This authority is in addition to that in 14.407…
  • FAR 14.408-4 Economic price adjustment.
    …d economic price adjustment provisions of the invitation, the bid shall be rejected as nonresponsive. (3) When a bid indicates deletion of the economic price adjustment clause, the bid shall be rejected as nonresponsive since the downward …
  • FAR 22.1003-4 Administrative limitations, variations, tolerances, and exemptions.
    …titive range, if discussions are to be conducted (see FAR 15.306)(c)); or (2) Considered responsive, if award is to be made without discussions (see FAR 15.306(a)). (3) Contract award or resolicitation. (i) If the apparent successful offe…
  • FAR 52.211-8 Time of Delivery.
    …all within the 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, whe…
  • FAR 52.211-9 Desired and Required Time of Delivery.
    …all within the 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 DELIV…
  • FAR 52.219-6 Notice of Total Small Business Set-Aside.
    …Offers received from concerns 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…
  • FAR 52.225-12 Notice of Buy American Requirement—Construction Materials Under Trade Agreements.
    …n 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 provision) Alternate…
  • FAR 52.225-24 Notice of Required Use of American Iron, Steel, and Manufactured Goods—Buy American Statute—Construction Materials Under Trade Agreements.
    …n 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 provision) Alternate…
  • FAR 52.247-51 Evaluation of Export Offers.
    …rts as the point to which delivery will be made by the Contractor may render the offer nonresponsive. [Offerors insert at least one of the ports listed in paragraph (d) below.] (d) Ports of loading for evaluation of offers. Terminals to b…
  • DFARS 225.403 World Trade Organization Government Procurement Agreement and Free Trade Agreements.
    …nes that offers of U.S.-made, qualifying country, or designated country end products from responsive, responsible offerors are either— (A) Not received; or (B) Insufficient to fill the Government's requirements. In this case, accept all r…
  • DFARS 252.244-7001 Contractor Purchasing System Administration.
    …ystem, if applicable; (21) Establish and maintain selection processes to ensure the most responsive and responsible sources for furnishing required quality parts and materials and to promote competitive sourcing among dependable suppliers …
  • FAR 1.102-2 Performance standards.
    …ers and line managers, acting on behalf of the American taxpayer. (2) The System must be responsive and adaptive to customer needs, concerns, and feedback. Implementation of acquisition policies and procedures, as well as consideration of …
  • FAR 5.403 Requests from Members of Congress.
    …ongress, upon their request, detailed information regarding any particular contract. When responsiveness would result in disclosure of classified matter, business confidential information, or information prejudicial to competitive acquisiti…
  • FAR 8.713 Optional acquisition of supplies and services.
    … on the Procurement List from a AbilityOne participating nonprofit agency that is the low responsive, responsible offeror under a solicitation issued by other authorized acquisition methods. (b) Ordering offices should forward solicitation…
  • FAR 9.104-3 Application of standards.
    …that has not agreed to comply with the limitations on subcontracting may be considered nonresponsive.
  • FAR 9.105-2 Determinations and documentation.
    … state the basis for the determination. (2) If the contracting officer determines that a responsive small business lacks certain elements of responsibility, the contracting officer shall comply with the procedures in subpart 19.6. When a C…
  • FAR 11.403 Supplies or services.
    …han the delivery 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 …
  • FAR 14.103-2 Limitations.
    …have been met; and (d) An award is made to the responsible bidder (see 9.1) whose bid is responsive to the terms of the invitation for bids and is most advantageous to the Government, considering only price and the price-related factors in…
  • FAR 14.202-6 Final review of invitations for bids.
    … discrepancies or ambiguities that could limit competition or result in the receipt of nonresponsive bids. Contracting officers are responsible for the reviews.
  • FAR 14.404-5 All or none qualifications.
    Unless the solicitation provides otherwise, a bid may be responsive notwithstanding that the bidder specifies that award will be accepted only on all, or a specified group, of the items. Bidders shall not be permitted to withdraw or modify …
  • FAR 14.503-1 Step one.
    …irements or specifications of, the request for technical proposals shall be considered nonresponsive and categorized as unacceptable. (f)(1) The contracting officer may proceed directly with step two if there are sufficient acceptable prop…
  • FAR 19.502-3 Partial set-asides of contracts other than multiple-award contracts.
    …eived from concerns that 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 becau…
  • FAR 19.502-4 Partial set-asides of multiple-award contracts.
    …eived from concerns that 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 becau…
  • FAR 19.705-4 Reviewing the subcontracting plan.
    …within the time allotted, the bidder shall be ineligible for award. If the plan, although responsive, evidences the bidder's intention not to comply with its obligations under the clause at 52.219-8, Utilization of Small Business Concerns, …
  • FAR 25.502 Application.
    …inate all offers or offerors that are unacceptable for reasons other than price; e.g., nonresponsive, debarred or suspended, or a prohibited source (see Subpart 25.7). (2) Rank the remaining offers by price. (3) If the solicitation specif…
  • FAR 28.101-3 Authority of an attorney-in-fact for a bid bond.
    …to provide a signed and dated power of attorney at the time of bid opening as a matter of responsiveness; and (2) Treat questions regarding the authenticity and enforceability of the power of attorney at the time of bid opening as a matter…
  • FAR 32.204 Procedures for contracting officer-specified commercial contract financing.
    …y the offeror does not alter the evaluation of the offer, nor does it render the offer nonresponsive or otherwise unacceptable. In the event of award to an offeror who declined the proposed contract financing, the contract financing provisi…
  • FAR 32.502-1 Use of customary progress payments.
    …and contracts, in accordance with this subpart. The contracting officer must reject as nonresponsive bids conditioned on progress payments when the solicitation did not provide for progress payments.
  • FAR 37.102 Policy.
    … be resolved, through service contracting in a manner that ensures full understanding and responsive performance by contractors and, in so doing, should obtain assistance from contracting officials, as needed. To the maximum extent practica…
  • FAR 47.305-3 F.o.b. origin solicitations.
    … 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 regulated common carr…
  • FAR 47.305-4 F.o.b. destination solicitations.
    …ate 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 contracting officer sh…
  • FAR 50.102-3 Limitations on exercise of authority.
    …g shall not increase the original contract price to an amount higher than the next lowest responsive offer of a responsible offeror. (f) No executive department or agency shall exercise the indemnification authority granted under paragraph…
  • FAR 52.204-22 Alternative Line Item Proposal.
    … not comply with the line items specified in this solicitation may be determined to be nonresponsive or unacceptable. (End of provision)
  • FAR 52.211-7 Alternatives to Government-unique standards.
    …the Government-unique standards specified in this solicitation may be determined to be nonresponsive or unacceptable. The offeror may submit an offer that complies with the Government-unique standards specified in this solicitation, in addi…

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.