48 CFR · Federal Acquisition Regulation and Defense supplement

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4 sections with “unearned amount”

  • FAR 52.232-5 Payments Under Fixed-Price Construction Contracts.
    …inal acceptance of a subcontractor's performance. (Name) (Title) (Date) (d) Refund of unearned amounts. If the Contractor, after making a certified request for progress payments, discovers that a portion or all of such request constitut…
  • FAR 16.001 Definitions.
    …ount of award fee to be earned by the contractor for each evaluation period. Rollover of unearned award fee means the process of transferring unearned award fee, which the contractor had an opportunity to earn, from one evaluation period t…
  • FAR 32.904 Determining payment due dates.
    … Prompt Payment for Construction Contracts, provide for the contractor to pay interest on unearned amounts in certain circumstances. The Government must recover this interest from subsequent payments to the contractor. Therefore, contractin…
  • FAR 16.401 General.
    …l amount and how this amount is allocated across each evaluation period. (4) Rollover of unearned award fee. The use of rollover of unearned award fee is prohibited. (5) Limitations. No award-fee contract shall be awarded unless— (i) All…

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.