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FAR -- Part 1 Federal Acquisition Regulations System
FAR 1.404 - Class Deviations
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1.602-2 - Responsibilities
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Definitions of Words and Terms
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2.101 - Definitions - Contract
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2.101 - Definitions - Offer
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Improper Business Practices and Personal Conflicts of Interest
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3.101 - Standards of conduct - Government independence, bias, lack of bias
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3.104-4 (b) - Prohibition on obtaining procurement information
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3.4 - Contingent Fees
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3.501 - Buying-in or below cost prices
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3.601 - Contracts with Government Employees
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4.11 - System for Award Management
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4.18 - Commercial and Government Entity Code, Data Universal Numbering System Number
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5.101 - Disseminating contract action information
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5.101 - Offerors' responsibility to obtain solicitation documents
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5.102 - Availability of Solicitations
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5.2 - Synopsis of Proposed Contract Actions, Publicizing and Response Time
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6.001 - Competition: Modifications, beyond the scope
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6.102 - Use of competitive procedures
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6.202 - Establishment or maintaining alternative sources
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6.301(c) - Lack of advance planning
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6.302 - Exceptions to Full and Open Competition
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6.302-1(a)(2)(i) - Unsolicited Proposals
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6.303 - Justifications
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6.401 - Preference for sealed bidding
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7.105 - Content of Acquisition Plans
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7.107 - Bundling and consolidation
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Required Sources of Supplies and Services
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8.001 - Priorities for use of Government supply sources
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8.402 - New Federal Supply Schedules - Authorized Price List
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8.404 - New Using Federal Supply Schedules
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8.405-2 - Ordering procedures for services requiring a statement of work
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8.405-3 - New Blanket purchase agreements
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8.405-6 - Sole Source Justification and Approval - Federal Supply Schedules
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8.700 - Javits-Wagner-O'Day Act
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9.103 - Responsibility determination
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9.104-1 - General standards of responsibility
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9.104-2 - Special standards of responsibility
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9.108 - Prohibition on contracting with Inverted Domestic Corporations
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9.203 - Qualified Products
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9.207(a) - Qualification Requirements, Change in Ownership, Location, etc.
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9.400 - Debarment, Suspension, and Ineligibility
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9.500 - Organizational and Consultant Conflict of Interest
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11 - Describing agency needs - Ambiguity
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11 - Describing agency needs - Latent ambiguity
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11 - Describing agency needs - Defective or inadequate specifications and descriptions
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11.104 - Brand name or equal
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11.002(a)(1) - Describing needs - restrictive provisions
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11.501 - Liquidated damages
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Acquisition of Commercial Items
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12.101 - New Conducting market research to determine whether commercial items or nondevelopmental items are available
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12.102 - Commercial item acquisition: Commercial item determination
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12.301 - Solicitation provisions and contract clauses for the acquisition of commercial items.
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12.302 - Tailoring and use of FAR clauses
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12.403 - Termination
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12.602 - Streamlined Evaluation of Offers
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Simplified Acquisition Procedures
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13.0 - Scope of part
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13.101(b)1 - "All-or-none" or "multiple award"
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13.104 - Promoting competition
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13.105 - Synopsis and posting requirements
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13.106-1 - (b)Soliciting from a single source
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13.106-2 - Evaluation of quotations or offers
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13.303 - Blanket Purchase Agreements
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13.5 - Test for certain commercial items
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14.201 - Patent ambiguity - bidders duty to inquire
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14.201-8 - Price related factors
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14.202-5 - Descriptive literature
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14.208 - Amendment - Materiality
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14.208 (b) - Bidding Time After Amendment
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14.208 (c) - Same information provided to all bidders
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14.304 - Bidder's submission, modification, and withdrawal of bids
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14.404-1 - Cancellation of invitation for bids
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14.404-2 (a) - Responsive in all material respects
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14.404-2 (g) - Materially unbalanced bid
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14.404-5 - All or none bids
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14.405 - Minor informalities or irregularities in bids
14.407 - Mistakes in bid
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14.408 - Equal Low Bids
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15.101 - Source Selection Processes and Techniques
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15.102 - Oral presentations
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15.206(a) - Changed requirements and/or solicitation amendment
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15.206(e) - New Cancellation of solicitation
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15.207 - Handling proposals and information
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15.208 - New Submission of proposals - Format and Substance
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15.208(b) - Submission of proposals - Late
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15.209(a)(2) - Alternate proposals
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15.303 - Evaluation team, Source Selection Plan
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15.304(c)(1) - Price or cost evaluation factor requirement
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15.304(d) - Importance of factors and significant subfactors in solicitation
15.305 - Unacceptable or offers not in compliance with solicitation
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15.305(a) - New Evaluation based solely on factors and subfactors specified in solicitation
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15.305(a) - Rating method or combination of methods
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15.305(a)(2) - Past performance/Experience - General
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15.305(a)(2)(ii) - New Past performance/Experience - Relevance, problems encountered, corrective actions, government consideration of sources
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15.305(a)(2)(iii) - New Past performance/Experience - key personnel, predecessor companies, subcontractors, teams, affiliates
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15.305(a)(2)(iv) - Past performance - Neutral rating
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15.305(a)(3) - New Technical evaluation - evaluators' scoring
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15.305 (a) (3)Technical evaluation - documentation
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15.305 (a) (3)New Technical Evaluation - Key personnel - Bait and switch - Material Misrepresentation - Letters of Commitment
Cost information provided to members of the technical evaluation team.
15.306 (a)Clarifications and award without discussions
15.306 (a) (2)Clarification - Government's duty to inquire
15.306 (b) (4)Past performance - opportunity to respond to adverse information
Competitive range
15.306 (d) (1)Discussions - held with each offeror within competitive range, disparate treatment,
tailored discussions
15.306 (d) (3)New Discussions - meaningful or misleading
15.306 (d) (4)Elimination from competitive range after discussions
15.306 (e)Discussions - Limits on exchanges, unequal
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15.307Final proposal revision
15.308New Source selection/tradeoff decision
15.404New Proposal analysis - Contract pricing, reasonableness, realism analysis
15.404-1 (g)New Unbalanced pricing
15.505Preaward Debriefings
15.506Postaward Debriefings
15.507Protests and debriefings - Disclosure of prices
15.607Unsolicited proposals
15.608Prohibitions: Use of data from unsolicited proposals
16.103Negotiating contract type
16-2Fixed-price contracts
16.301-3Adequacy of contractor’s accounting system
16.500Federal Supply Schedule orders, unlike FASA task orders, may be protested
16.501-2General.
16.503Requirements contracts - consideration
16.504 (a)Indefinite quantity contracts - Guaranteed Minimum
16.504 (c)Indefinite-quantity contracts - Multiple award preference
16.505 (a)Indefinite-quantity contracts, task orders, beyond scope - Protests
16.505 (b)Indefinite-quantity contracts - Orders under multiple-award contracts, fair opportunity, pricing
16.506Expiration of FSS Contract, task orders
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17.206Evaluation of options
17.207Exercise of options
19.101Joint Venture - Ostensible Subcontractor, Affiliate
19.102 (f)Small business - set aside - domestic, non-domestic product
19.202-6Determination of fair market price
19.3Small business status determination
19.303Determining NAICS codes and size standards
19.502Set aside for small business decision
19.602Certificate of Competency
19.704Subcontracting Plan Requirements
19.803Selecting acquisitions for 8(a) program
19.805Competitive 8(a)
19.1102Use of price evaluation factor
HUBZone Program
19.1405New Service-disabled veteran-owned small business set-aside procedures
Applicability
22.1006Solicitation provisions and contract clauses.
Protection of Privacy and Freedom of Information
24.2Freedom of Information Act - Trade secrets, commercial, financial information, reverse auction
25.001 (a)Buy American Act
25.001 (a)The Berry Amendment (10 U. S. C. § 2533(a))
25.4Trade Agreements Act
26.2Disaster or Emergency Assistance Activities
27Patents, Data, and Copyrights
28.101Bid guarantees
30.2Contract Requirements
32.702Adequate Funding
Research and Development Contracting
35.003New Contracts, grants, or cooperative agreements, other transactions
35.106Broad agency announcements
Construction and Architect -- Engineer Contracts
36.101Clauses Applicable to Construction & Supplies
36.3Two-Phase Design-Build Selection Procedures
36.6Architect - Engineer Services
49.402-6Reprocurement
Solicitation Provisions and Contract Clauses
52.214-19Contract award - Sealed bidding - Construction
52.215-9023DLAD Clause Reverse Auctions
52.219-14Limitations on Subcontracting
52.222-46Evaluation of Compensation for Professional Employees
Link to Decisions
Listed by Specific Law
Military Housing Privatization Initiative
Military Housing Privatization
Small Business Innovation Research
Small Business Innovation Research Program
National Forest Management Act
16 U.S.C. 472aSale of timber at appraised value
National Park Service Concessions Management Improvement Act of 1998, (16 U.S.C. § 5951)
16 U.S.C. 5952Award of concessions contracts
Randolph-Sheppard Act
Randolph-Sheppard Act
New Omnibus Diplomatic Security and Antiterrorism Act of 1986, as amended, (Security Act)
22 U.S.C. 4852"United States persons" and "qualified United States joint venture persons"
Foreign Service Buildings Act of 1926, as amended. (Percy Amendment, 22 U.S.C. 302)
10 percent price reduction for American-owned offerors
Foreign Relations Authorization Act for FYs 1990-1991 (22 U.S.C. § 4864)
22 U.S.C. § 4864(c)(3)Price preference for U. S. persons and qualified U. S. joint venture persons
25 U.S.C. § 47Buy Indian Act
Pubic Buildings Service
40 U.S.C 3307Congressional approval of proposed projects
Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act
A firm residing or doing business primarily in the designated set-aside location
Oceans Act of 1992
Nonapplicability to Certain Vessels