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48 CFR · Federal Acquisition Regulation and Defense supplement

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35 sections with “subline items”

  • FAR 4.1004 Establishing subline items.
    Subline items may be used to facilitate tracking of performance, deliverables, payment, and contract funds accounting or for other management purposes. Subline items may be either deliverable or informational. The list of characteristics at…
  • DFARS 252.204-7002 Payment for Contract Line or Subline Items Not Separately Priced.
    As prescribed in 204.7109(a), use the following clause: Payment for Contract Line or Subline Items Not Separately Priced (APR 2020) (a) If the schedule in this contract contains any contract line or subline items identified as not separat…
  • FAR 4.1005 Data elements for line items and subline items.
  • DFARS 204.7104 Contract subline items.
  • FAR 4.1001 Policy.
    …e supplies or services to be acquired as separately identified line items and, as needed, subline items. (a) Line items are established to define deliverables or organize information about deliverables. Each line item describes characteris…
  • FAR 4.1005-1 Required data elements.
    (a) Except as provided in 4.1005-2, each line item or subline item shall include in the schedule (described at 12.303(b)(4), 14.201-2, or 15.204-2, or in a comparable section of the procurement instrument), at a minimum, the following infor…
  • DFARS 204.7103-1 Criteria for establishing.
    … contract line item, enter NSP instead of the unit price; (ii) When there are associated subline items, established for other than informational reasons, and those subline items are priced in accordance with 204.7104; (iii) When the items…
  • DFARS 204.7104-1 Criteria for establishing.
    Contract subline items provide flexibility to further identify elements within a contract line item for tracking performance or simplifying administration. There are only two kinds of subline items: those which are informational in nature a…
  • FAR 4.1005-2 Exceptions.
    …t 13.106-1(a)(2)(iv)(A) or 15.304(c)(1)(ii)(A) may omit price or cost at the line item or subline item level for the contract award, provided that the total contract minimum and maximum is stated (see 16.504(a)(1)). (b) Item description an…
  • DFARS 204.7106 Contract modifications.
    (a) If new items are added, assign new contract line or subline item numbers or exhibit line item numbers, in accordance with the procedures established at 204.7103, 204.7104, and 204.7105. (b) Modifications to existing contract line items…
  • DFARS 204.7109 Contract clauses.
    (a) Use the clause at 252.204-7002, Payment for Contract Line or Subline Items Not Separately Priced, in solicitations and contracts when the price for items not separately priced is included in the price of another contract line or subline…
  • DFARS 252.246-7005 Notice of Warranty Tracking of Serialized Items.
    …he attachment entitled “Warranty Tracking Information” on each contract line item number, subline item number, or exhibit line item number for warranted items with its offer. Information required in the warranty attachment for each warrante…
  • DFARS 252.246-7006 Warranty Tracking of Serialized Items.
    …he attachment entitled “Warranty Tracking Information” on each contract line item number, subline item number, or exhibit line item number for warranted items no later than the time of award. Information required in the warranty attachment …
  • FAR 4.1000 Scope.
    This subpart prescribes policies and procedures for assigning line items and subline items and their identifiers. However, in order to provide agencies with time to transition their information systems, agencies have until October 1, 2019, …
  • FAR 14.404-2 Rejection of individual bids.
    …dual line items as well. (g) Any bid may be rejected if the prices for any line items or subline items are materially unbalanced (see 15.404-1(g)). (h) Bids received from any person or concern that is suspended, debarred, proposed for deb…
  • FAR 15.404-1 Proposal analysis techniques.
    … of an indefinite-delivery contract. (2) All offers with separately priced line items or subline items shall be analyzed to determine if the prices are unbalanced. If cost or price analysis techniques indicate that an offer is unbalanced, …
  • FAR 52.214-10 Contract Award—Sealed Bidding.
    … a bid as nonresponsive if the prices bid are materially unbalanced between line items or subline items. A bid is materially unbalanced when it is based on prices significantly less than cost for some work and prices which are significantly…
  • FAR 52.214-19 Contract Award—Sealed Bidding—Construction.
    … a bid as nonresponsive if the prices bid are materially unbalanced between line items or subline items. A bid is materially unbalanced when it is based on prices significantly less than cost for some work and prices which are significantly…
  • FAR 52.215-1 Instructions to Offerors—Competitive Acquisition.
    …al is unacceptable if the prices proposed are materially unbalanced between line items or subline items. Unbalanced pricing exists when, despite an acceptable total evaluated price, the price of one or more line items is significantly overs…
  • DFARS 204.7104-2 Numbering procedures.
    Follow the procedures at PGI 204.7104-2 for numbering contract subline items.
  • DFARS 252.211-7003 Item Unique Identification and Valuation.
    …ssuing agency. Government's unit acquisition cost means— (1) For fixed-price type line, subline, or exhibit line items, the unit price identified in the contract at the time of delivery; (2) For cost-type or undefinitized line, subline, …
  • DFARS 252.232-7018 Progress Payments—Multiple Lots.
    … in this clause— Lot means one or more fixed-price deliverable line items or deliverable subline items representing a single, severable group where the sum of the costs for each group is segregated and a single progress payment rate is use…
  • FAR 2.101 Definitions.
    …inspection, acceptance, invoicing, and payment. The use of the term “line item” includes “subline item,” as applicable. Line item number means either a numeric or alphanumeric format to identify a line item. Major disaster, as used in 6.2…
  • FAR 16.505 Ordering.
    …ii) Contract number and order number. (iii) For supplies and services, line item number, subline item number (if applicable), description, quantity, and unit price or estimated cost and fee (as applicable). The corresponding line item numb…
  • FAR 52.212-4 Contract Terms and Conditions—Commercial Products and Commercial Services.
    …cted contract number and delivery order number, if applicable; (C) Affected line item or subline item, if applicable; and (D) Contractor point of contact. (ii) Provide a copy of the remittance and supporting documentation to the Contract…
  • DFARS 204.7102 Policy.
    …edures of this subpart shall apply to all— (1) Solicitations; (2) Solicitation line and subline item numbers; (3) Contracts as defined in FAR Subpart 2.1; (4) Contract line and subline item numbers; (5) Exhibits; (6) Exhibit line item…
  • DFARS 211.274-3 Policy for valuation.
    … applies. (b) The Government's unit acquisition cost is— (1) For fixed-price type line, subline, or exhibit line items, the unit price identified in the contract at the time of delivery; (2) For cost-type or undefinitized line, subline, …
  • FAR 8.404 Use of Federal Supply Schedules.
    …ordering activities shall reference the special item number and the corresponding line or subline item awarded (established per 4.1005) in the schedule. If an ordering activity contracting officer adds an item not on the Federal Supply Sche…
  • FAR 32.903 Responsibilities.
    …olicitations and contracts, contracting officers must identify for each line item number, subline item number, or exhibit line item number— (1) The applicable Prompt Payment clauses that apply to each item when the solicitation or contract…
  • FAR 32.1004 Procedures.
    …ce necessary for that deliverable item and shall be identified to a specific line item or subline item. (b) Establishing performance-based finance payment amounts. (1) The contracting officer shall establish a complete, fully defined sched…
  • FAR 52.232-25 Prompt payment.
    …ted contract number and delivery order number if applicable; (iii) Affected line item or subline item, if applicable; and (iv) Contractor point of contact. (2) Provide a copy of the remittance and supporting documentation to the Contract…
  • FAR 52.232-26 Prompt Payment for Fixed-Price Architect-Engineer Contracts.
    …ted contract number and delivery order number if applicable; (iii) Affected line item or subline item, if applicable; and (iv) Contractor point of contact. (2) Provide a copy of the remittance and supporting documentation to the Contract…
  • FAR 52.232-27 Prompt Payment for Construction Contracts.
    …ted contract number and delivery order number if applicable; (iii) Affected line item or subline item, if applicable; and (iv) Contractor point of contact. (2) Provide a copy of the remittance and supporting documentation to the Contract…
  • DFARS 211.274-5 Contract clauses.
    …11.274-2(b) apply. (1) Identify in paragraph (c)(1)(ii) of the clause the contract line, subline, or exhibit line item number and description of any item(s) below $5,000 in unit acquisition cost for which DoD item unique identification or …
  • DFARS 252.232-7011 Payments in Support of Emergencies and Contingency Operations.
    …ract number and delivery order number, if applicable; (C) Affected contract line item or subline item, if applicable; and (D) Contractor point of contact; and (ii) Provide a copy of the remittance and supporting documentation to the Cont…

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.