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55 sections with “separate items of work”: the first 40

  • FAR 4.1003 Establishing line items.
    Establish separate line items for deliverables that have the following characteristics except as provided at 4.1005-2: (a) Separately identifiable. (1) A supply is separately identifiable if it has its own identification (e.g., national s…
  • DFARS 252.225-7045 Balance of Payments Program—Construction Material Under Trade Agreements.
    …ovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan (known in the World Trade Organization as “the Separate Customs Territory of Taiwan, Penghu, Kinmen, and Matsu” (Chinese Taipei)), Ukraine, or the United Kingdom); (2) A Free Trade Agreement count…
  • FAR 2.101 Definitions.
    …two or more requirements for supplies or services, previously provided or performed under separate smaller contracts (see paragraph (2) of this definition), into a solicitation for a single contract, a multiple-award contract, or a task or …
  • FAR 15.404-1 Proposal analysis techniques.
    …alysis is the process of examining and evaluating a proposed price without evaluating its separate cost elements and proposed profit. Unless an exception from the requirement to obtain certified cost or pricing data applies under 15.403-1(b…
  • FAR 15.407-4 Should-cost review.
    …tems. When a program should-cost review is conducted relative to a contractor proposal, a separate audit report on the proposal is required. (2) A program should-cost review should be considered, particularly in the case of a major system …
  • FAR 15.408 Solicitation provisions and contract clauses.
    …ial products fabricated by the offeror that are generally stocked in inventory, provide a separate cost breakdown, if priced based on cost. For interorganizational transfers priced at cost, provide a separate breakdown of cost elements. Ana…
  • FAR 52.232-16 Progress Payments.
    …he undefinitized contract action or such lower limit specified elsewhere in the contract. Separate limits may be specified for separate actions. (l) Due date. The designated payment office will make progress payments on the ____ [Contracti…
  • FAR 52.245-1 Government Property.
    …business; (2) All or substantially all of the Contractor's operation at any one plant or separate location; or (3) A separate and complete major industrial operation. Demilitarization means rendering a product unusable for, and not resto…
  • FAR 52.246-8 Inspection of Research and Development—Cost-Reimbursement.
    …business; (2) All or substantially all of the Contractor's operation at any one plant or separate location where the contract is being performed; or (3) A separate and complete major industrial operation connected with performing this con…
  • DFARS 204.7103-1 Criteria for establishing.
    Contracts shall identify the items or services to be acquired as separate contract line items unless it is not feasible to do so. (a) Contract line items shall have all four of the following characteristics; however, there are exceptions w…
  • DFARS 204.7104-1 Criteria for establishing.
    …h are informational in nature and those which consist of more than one item that requires separate identification. (a) Informational subline items. (1) This type of subline item identifies information that relates directly to the contract …
  • DFARS 227.7203-2 Acquisition of other than commercial computer software and computer software documentation and associated rights.
    …sh each type of computer software or computer software documentation to be delivered as a separate contract line item (this requirement may be satisfied by an exhibit to the contract); (3) Identify the prices established for each separatel…
  • FAR 8.404 Use of Federal Supply Schedules.
    …acts to be fair and reasonable. Therefore, ordering activities are not required to make a separate determination of fair and reasonable pricing, except for a price evaluation as required by 8.405-2(d). By placing an order against a schedule…
  • FAR 9.505-2 Preparing specifications or work statements.
    …ing a product they provide, even though the specifications or data may have been paid for separately or in the price of the product; or (ii) Situations in which contractors, acting as industry representatives, help Government agencies prep…
  • FAR 14.404-2 Rejection of individual bids.
    …ed only if, before date of award, the bidder receives (or does not receive) award under a separate solicitation; (5) Requires that the Government is to determine that the bidder's product meets applicable Government specifications; or (6)…
  • FAR 52.204-21 Basic Safeguarding of Covered Contractor Information Systems.
    …nt subnetworks for publicly accessible system components that are physically or logically separated from internal networks. (xii) Identify, report, and correct information and information system flaws in a timely manner. (xiii) Provide pr…
  • FAR 52.212-1 Instructions to Offerors—Commercial Products and Commercial Services.
    … satisfying the requirements of this solicitation. Each offer submitted will be evaluated separately. (f) Late submissions, modifications, revisions, and withdrawals of offers. (1) Offerors are responsible for submitting offers, and any mo…
  • FAR 52.212-3 Offeror Representations and Certifications—Commercial Products and Commercial Services.
    … the percentage of the domestic content is unknown, select “no”. (iii) The Offeror shall separately list the line item numbers of domestic end products that contain a critical component (see FAR 25.105). (iv) The terms “commercially avail…
  • FAR 52.216-16 Incentive Price Revision—Firm Target.
    … ceiling price of ___ dollars ($___). Any supplies or services that are to be (1) ordered separately under, or otherwise added to, this contract and (2) subject to price revision in accordance with the terms of this clause shall be identifi…
  • FAR 52.216-17 Incentive Price Revision—Successive Targets.
    …] percent of the initial target cost. Any supplies or services that are to be (1) ordered separately under, or otherwise added to, this contract and (2) subject to price revision in accordance with this clause shall be identified as such in…
  • DFARS 215.404-71-3 Contract type risk and working capital adjustment.
    … allowable incurred costs on an undefinitized contract action, it is appropriate to apply separate contract risk factors for allowable incurred costs and estimated costs to complete when completing the contract risk sections of DD Form 1547…
  • DFARS 227.7103-2 Acquisition of technical data.
    …media in which the data will be delivered; (2) Establish each deliverable data item as a separate contract line item (this requirement may be satisfied by listing each deliverable data item on an exhibit to the contract); (3) Identify the…
  • DFARS 252.225-7021 Trade Agreements.
    …ovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan (known in the World Trade Organization as “the Separate Customs Territory of Taiwan, Penghu, Kinmen, and Matsu” (Chinese Taipei)), Ukraine, or the United Kingdom); (2) A Free Trade Agreement count…
  • FAR 32.904 Determining payment due dates.
    …and payments for partial deliveries that have been accepted by the Government (e.g., each separate building, public work, or other division of the contract for which the price is stated separately in the contract) is as follows: (A) The la…
  • FAR 36.205 Statutory cost limitations.
    …st limitations shall state (1) the applicable cost limitation for each affected item in a separate schedule; (2) that an offer which does not contain separately-priced schedules will not be considered; and (3) that the price on each schedul…
  • FAR 52.222-37 Employment Reports on Veterans.
    …med Forces service medal veteran,” “disabled veteran,” “protected veteran,” and “recently separated veteran,” have the meanings given in Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 22.1301. (b) Unless the Contractor is a State or local government…
  • DFARS 247.270-2 Technical provisions.
    … other dock and terminal work under a stevedoring contract, include these requirements as separate items of work.
  • DFARS 252.228-7001 Ground and Flight Risk.
    …siness; (2) All, or substantially all, of the Contractor's operation at any one plant or separate location; or (3) A separate and complete major industrial operation. Contractor's premises means those premises, including subcontractors' …
  • FAR 45.101 Definitions.
    …business; (2) All or substantially all of the contractor's operation at any one plant or separate location; or (3) A separate and complete major industrial operation. Demilitarization means rendering a product unusable for, and not resto…
  • FAR 45.606 Contractor scrap procedures.
    …nagement procedures. (b) The property administrator should determine the extent to which separate disposal processing or physical segregation for different scrap types is or may be required. Such scrap may require physical segregation, uni…
  • FAR 49.606 Granting subcontract settlement authorization.
    … the contract, and do not require approval of the Contracting Officer. (5) Any number of separate settlements of $____________ [insert limit of authorization granted] or less may be made with a single subcontractor. Settlement proposals th…
  • FAR 52.212-4 Contract Terms and Conditions—Commercial Products and Commercial Services.
    …an indefinite delivery contract, the Contracting Officer may insert “Each order must list separately the elements of other direct charge(s) for that order or, if no reimbursement for other direct costs will be provided, insert ‘None’”.] (2…
  • FAR 52.232-27 Prompt Payment for Construction Contracts.
    …and payments for partial deliveries that have been accepted by the Government (e.g., each separate building, public work, or other division of the contract for which the price is stated separately in the contract). (A) The due date for mak…
  • FAR 52.246-6 Inspection—Time-and-Material and Labor-Hour.
    …business; (2) All or substantially all of the Contractor's operation at any one plant or separate location where the contract is being performed; or (3) A separate and complete major industrial operation connected with the performance of …
  • FAR 52.247-64 Preference for Privately Owned U.S.-Flag Commercial Vessels.
    …f equipment, materials, or commodities that may be transported in ocean vessels (computed separately for dry bulk carriers, dry cargo liners, and tankers). Such transportation shall be accomplished when any equipment, materials, or commodit…
  • FAR 52.248-2 Value Engineering—Architect-Engineer.
    …the 35 percent design state or at such stages as the Contracting Officer may direct. Each separately priced line item for VE services shall define specifically the scope of work to be accomplished and may include VE studies of items other t…
  • DFARS 228.370-1 Definitions.
    …siness; (2) All, or substantially all, of the contractor's operation at any one plant or separate location; or (3) A separate and complete major industrial operation. Covered aircraft means an aircraft owned by or to be delivered to the …
  • FAR 11.402 Factors to consider in establishing schedules.
    …contractor to perform; and (6) Use of multiple completion dates. (In any given contract, separate completion dates may be established for separable items of work. When multiple completion dates are used, requests for extension of time must…
  • FAR 15.407-1 Defective certified cost or pricing data.
    …l obtain the advice of counsel. (iv) In the demand letter, the contracting officer shall separately include— (A) The repayment amount; (B) The penalty amount (if any); (C) The interest amount through a specified date; and (D) A stateme…
  • FAR 15.407-2 Make-or-buy programs.
    …nomic policies. Consent to subcontracts and review of contractors' purchasing systems are separate actions covered in part 44. (b) Definition. Make item, as used in this subsection, means an item or work effort to be produced or performed …

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