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48 CFR · Federal Acquisition Regulation and Defense supplement

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91 sections with “system approval”: the first 40

  • DFARS 245.105 Contractors' property management system compliance.
    (a) Definitions. As used in this subpart— Acceptable property management system means a property system that complies with the system criteria in paragraph (c) of the clause at 252.245-7003, Contractor Property Management Administration. …
  • FAR 52.234-4 Earned Value Management System.
    As prescribed in 34.203(c), insert the following clause: Earned Value Management System (NOV 2016) (a) The Contractor shall use an earned value management system (EVMS) that has been determined by the Cognizant Federal Agency (CFA) to be …
  • DFARS 252.215-7002 Cost Estimating System Requirements.
    As prescribed in 215.408(1), use the following clause: Cost Estimating System Requirements (Jan 2025) (a) Definitions. Acceptable estimating system means an estimating system that complies with the system criteria in paragraph (d) of thi…
  • DFARS 252.234-7002 Earned Value Management System.
    As prescribed in 234.203(2), use the following clause: Earned Value Management System (Jan 2025) (a) Definitions. As used in this clause— Acceptable earned value management system means an earned value management system that generally co…
  • DFARS 252.242-7004 Material Management and Accounting System.
    As prescribed in 242.7204, use the following clause: Material Management and Accounting System (Jan 2025) (a) Definitions. As used in this clause— Acceptable material management and accounting system means a material management and accou…
  • DFARS 252.242-7006 Accounting System Administration.
    As prescribed in 242.7503, use the following clause: Accounting System Administration (Jan 2025) (a) Definitions. As used in this clause— Acceptable accounting system means a system that complies with the system criteria in paragraph (c)…
  • DFARS 252.244-7001 Contractor Purchasing System Administration.
    …scribed in 244.305-71 and 244.305-71(a), use the following clause: Contractor Purchasing System Administration—Basic (Jan 2025) (a) Definitions. As used in this clause— Acceptable purchasing system means a purchasing system that complies…
  • DFARS 252.245-7003 Contractor Property Management System Administration.
    As prescribed in 245.107(3), insert the following clause: Contractor Property Management System Administration (Jan 2025) (a) Definitions. As used in this clause— Acceptable property management system means a property system that complie…
  • DFARS 252.246-7007 Contractor Counterfeit Electronic Part Detection and Avoidance System.
    …use the following clause: Contractor Counterfeit Electronic Part Detection and Avoidance System (JAN 2023) The following paragraphs (a) through (e) of this clause do not apply unless the Contractor is subject to the Cost Accounting Standa…
  • FAR 44.305-2 Notification.
    (a) The notification granting system approval shall include— (1) Identification of the plant or plants covered by the approval; (2) The effective date of approval; and (3) A statement that system approval— (i) Applies to all Federal Gov…
  • FAR 44.305-3 Withholding or withdrawing approval.
    (a) The ACO shall withhold or withdraw approval of a contractor's purchasing system when there are major weaknesses or when the contractor is unable to provide sufficient information upon which to make an affirmative determination. The ACO …
  • DFARS 215.407-5-70 Disclosure, maintenance, and review requirements.
    (a) Definitions. As used in this section— Acceptable estimating system means an estimating system that complies with the system criteria in paragraph (d) of 252.215-7002, Cost Estimating System Requirements, and provides for a system that—…
  • DFARS 234.201 Policy.
    (1) DoD applies the earned value management system requirement as follows: (i) For cost or incentive contracts and subcontracts valued at $20,000,000 or more, the earned value management system shall comply with the guidelines in the Ameri…
  • DFARS 242.7203 Review procedures.
    … more material weaknesses due to the contractor's failure to meet one or more of the MMAS system criteria in the clause at 252.242-7004, the contracting officer shall— (A) Promptly make an initial written determination on any material weak…
  • DFARS 242.7502 Policy.
    …ts based on costs or on a percentage or stage of completion, shall maintain an accounting system. (b) The cognizant contracting officer, in consultation with the auditor or functional specialist, shall— (1) Determine the acceptability of …
  • DFARS 244.305-70 Policy.
    … 44.305-3(b). (a) The cognizant contracting officer, in consultation with the purchasing system analyst or auditor, shall— (1) Determine the acceptability of the contractor's purchasing system and approve or disapprove the system; and (2…
  • FAR 32.503-4 Approval of progress payment requests.
    …a) When the reliability of the contractor and the adequacy of the contractor's accounting system and controls have been established (see 32.503-3 above) the ACO may, in approving any particular progress payment request (including initial re…
  • FAR 42.302 Contract administration functions.
    …30-4, 52.230-5, and 52.230-6. (12) Determine the adequacy of the contractor's accounting system. The contractor's accounting system should be adequate during the entire period of contract performance. The adequacy of the contractor's accou…
  • FAR 44.306 Disclosure of approval status.
    Upon request, the ACO may inform a contractor that the purchasing system of a proposed subcontractor has been approved or disapproved, but shall caution that the Government will not keep the contractor advised of any changes in the approval…
  • FAR 52.212-4 Contract Terms and Conditions—Commercial Products and Commercial Services.
    …tation provision, contract clause (e.g., 52.232-33, Payment by Electronic Funds Transfer— System for Award Management, or 52.232-34, Payment by Electronic Funds Transfer—Other Than System for Award Management), or applicable agency procedur…
  • FAR 52.219-9 Small Business Subcontracting Plan.
    …the definition of “commercial service” in FAR 2.101. Electronic Subcontracting Reporting System (eSRS) means the Governmentwide, electronic, web-based system for small business subcontracting program reporting. The eSRS is located at http:…
  • FAR 52.244-2 Subcontracts.
    …: Subcontracts (JUN 2020) (a) Definitions. As used in this clause— Approved purchasing system means a Contractor's purchasing system that has been reviewed and approved in accordance with Part 44 of the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FA…
  • FAR 52.245-1 Government Property.
    …accepted accounting principles. (b) Property management. (1) The Contractor shall have a system of internal controls to manage (control, use, preserve, protect, repair, and maintain) Government property in its possession. The system shall …
  • DFARS 212.102 Applicability.
    … product” or “commercial service” definition in FAR 2.101. See 234.7002(b) and (c) for subsystems of major weapon systems and components and spare parts of major weapon systems and of subsystems of major weapon systems; (B) Include the wri…
  • DFARS 215.403-1 Prohibition on obtaining certified cost or pricing data (10 U.S.C. chapter 271 and 41 U.S.C. chapter 35).
    …mercial products or commercial services, except see 234.7002(e) for pricing commercial subsystems of major weapon systems and components and spare parts of major weapon systems and of subsystems of major weapon systems. (B) When applying t…
  • DFARS 227.7203-14 Conformity, acceptance, and warranty of computer software and computer software documentation.
    …tion clause providing remedies for nonconforming deliverables. (2) Warranties—(i) Weapon systems. Computer software that is a component of a weapon system or major subsystem should be warranted as part of the weapon system warranty. Follow…
  • DFARS 234.7002 Policy.
    (a) Major weapon systems. (1) A DoD major weapon system may be treated as a commercial product, or acquired under procedures established for the acquisition of commercial products, only if— (i) The Secretary of Defense determines that— (A…
  • DFARS 235.006 Contracting methods and contract type.
    … to exercise a fixed-price production option on a development contract for a major weapon system reasonably in advance of the expiration of the option exercise period. (ii) For other than major defense acquisition programs— (A) Do not awa…
  • DFARS 246.870-2 Policy.
    …it, and approval by the Government, generally in conjunction with a contractor purchasing system review or other surveillance of purchasing practices by the contract administration office, or if the Government obtains credible evidence that…
  • DFARS 252.204-7012 Safeguarding Covered Defense Information and Cyber Incident Reporting.
    …losure of information to unauthorized persons, or a violation of the security policy of a system, in which unauthorized intentional or unintentional disclosure, modification, destruction, or loss of an object, or the copying of information …
  • DFARS 252.239-7010 Cloud Computing Services.
    …ecutive with the authority to formally assume responsibility for operating an information system at an acceptable level of risk to organizational operations (including mission, functions, image, or reputation), organizational assets, indivi…
  • FAR 4.2104 Waivers.
    … covered telecommunications or video surveillance equipment or services from the relevant systems. (2) Executive agency waiver requirements for the prohibition at 4.2102(a)(2). Before the head of an executive agency can grant a waiver to t…
  • FAR 44.307 Reports.
    …ll distribute copies of CPSR reports; notifications granting, withholding, or withdrawing system approval; and Government recommendations for improvement of an approved system, including the contractor's response, to at least— (a) The cogn…
  • FAR 51.202 Authorization.
    …icer may authorize a cost-reimbursement contractor to obtain interagency fleet management system (IFMS) vehicles and related services, if the contracting officer has— (1) Determined that the authorization will accomplish the agency's contr…
  • DFARS 216.405-2 Cost-plus-award-fee contracts.
    …ntive-fee contract can be used; or (B) For either engineering development or operational system development acquisitions that have specifications suitable for simultaneous research and development and production, except a cost-plus-award-f…
  • DFARS 223.7305 Authorization and approval.
    … of hexavalent chromium and the proposed alternatives over the projected life span of the system; and (6) Corrosion performance difference of alternative materials or processes as determined by agency corrosion subject matter experts. (b)…
  • DFARS 225.7003-3 Exceptions.
    … billet, slab, wire, plate, and sheet, that have not been incorporated into end items, subsystems, assemblies, or components. Specialty metal supply contracts issued by COTS producers are not subcontracts for the purposes of this exception;…
  • DFARS 225.7301-2 Solicitation approval for sole source contracts.
    … a solicitation for a sole source contract for U.S./FMS combined requirements for a major system that has an estimated contract value that exceeds $500 million. See also 201.170 and PGI 216.403-1(1)(ii)(B) and (C).
  • DFARS 252.251-7001 Use of Interagency Fleet Management System (IFMS) vehicles and related services.
    As prescribed in 251.205, use the following clause: Use of Interagency Fleet Management System (IFMS) Vehicles and Related Services (DEC 1991) (a) The Contractor, if authorized use of IFMS vehicles, shall submit requests for five or fewer…
  • FAR 6.302-1 Only one responsible source and no other supplies or services will satisfy agency requirements.
    …n the case of a follow-on contract for the continued development or production of a major system or highly specialized equipment, including major components thereof, when it is likely that award to any other source would result in— (A) Sub…

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