Buy American Certificate FAR 52.225.pdf

This is a federal contract clause template for the "Buy American Certificate" provision, effective October 2022, incorporated into solicitations per FAR 25.1101(a)(2).

The clause requires offerors to certify that all end products are domestic, with specific exceptions noted in paragraph (b), and that domestic end products listed in paragraph (c) contain critical components. Offerors must identify foreign end products manufactured in the United States that do not qualify as domestic end products, and indicate whether such products exceed 55 percent domestic content (except for Commercially Available Off-The-Shelf (COTS) items, with "no" selected if domestic content percentage is unknown). Offerors must separately list line item numbers of domestic end products containing critical components as defined in FAR 25.105. The clause defines key terms including "COTS item," "critical component," "domestic end product," "end product," and "foreign end product" by reference to the "Buy American-Supplies" clause within the solicitation. The template includes blank tables for offerors to list foreign end products by line item number, country of origin, and domestic content percentage, as well as to list line item numbers of domestic end products with critical components. Government evaluation of offers will follow Federal Acquisition Regulation Part 25 policies and procedures. This is a template provision for solicitation incorporation rather than a substantive contract opportunity.