Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR)

About the FAR

The Federal Acquisition Regulation is the primary set of rules executive agencies follow to buy goods and services, codified in Title 48, Chapter 1 of the Code of Federal Regulations. Each section's page shows its text, the Federal Register rules that amended it, and proposed changes with no final rule yet.

Parts

• Part 1 Federal Acquisition Regulations System
  • Subpart 1.1 Purpose, Authority, Issuance
  • Subpart 1.2 Administration
  • Subpart 1.3 Agency Acquisition Regulations
  • Subpart 1.4 Deviations from the FAR
  • Subpart 1.5 Agency and Public Participation
  • Subpart 1.6 Career Development, Contracting Authority, and Responsibilities
  • Subpart 1.7 Determinations and Findings
• Part 2 Definitions of Words and Terms
  • Subpart 2.1 Definitions
  • Subpart 2.2 Definitions Clause
• Part 3 Improper Business Practices and Personal Conflicts of Interest
  • Subpart 3.1 Safeguards
  • Subpart 3.2 Contractor Gratuities to Government Personnel
  • Subpart 3.3 Reports of Suspected Antitrust Violations
  • Subpart 3.4 Contingent Fees
  • Subpart 3.5 Other Improper Business Practices
  • Subpart 3.6 Contracts with Government Employees or Organizations Owned or Controlled by Them
  • Subpart 3.7 Voiding and Rescinding Contracts
  • Subpart 3.8 Limitations on the Payment of Funds to Influence Federal Transactions
  • Subpart 3.9 Whistleblower Protections for Contractor Employees
  • Subpart 3.10 Contractor Code of Business Ethics and Conduct
  • Subpart 3.11 Preventing Personal Conflicts of Interest for Contractor Employees Performing Acquisition Functions
• Part 4 Administrative and Information Matters
  • Subpart 4.1 Contract Execution
  • Subpart 4.2 Contract Distribution
  • Subpart 4.3 Reserved
  • Subpart 4.4 Safeguarding Classified Information Within Industry
  • Subpart 4.5 Electronic Commerce in Contracting
  • Subpart 4.6 Contract Reporting
  • Subpart 4.7 Contractor Records Retention
  • Subpart 4.8 Government Contract Files
  • Subpart 4.9 Taxpayer Identification Number Information
  • Subpart 4.10 Uniform Use of Line Items
  • Subpart 4.11 System for Award Management
  • Subpart 4.12 Representations and Certifications
  • Subpart 4.13 Personal Identity Verification
  • Subpart 4.14 Reporting Executive Compensation and First-Tier Subcontract Awards
  • Subpart 4.15 Reserved
  • Subpart 4.16 Unique Procurement Instrument Identifiers
  • Subpart 4.17 Service Contracts Inventory
  • Subpart 4.18 Commercial and Government Entity Code
  • Subpart 4.19 Basic Safeguarding of Covered Contractor Information Systems
  • Subpart 4.20 Prohibition on Contracting for Hardware, Software, and Services Developed or Provided by Kaspersky Lab
  • Subpart 4.21 Prohibition on Contracting for Certain Telecommunications and Video Surveillance Services or Equipment
  • Subpart 4.22 Prohibition on a ByteDance Covered Application
  • Subpart 4.23 Federal Acquisition Security Council
• Part 5 Publicizing Contract Actions
  • Subpart 5.1 Dissemination of Information
  • Subpart 5.2 Synopses of Proposed Contract Actions
  • Subpart 5.3 Synopses of Contract Awards
  • Subpart 5.4 Release of Information
  • Subpart 5.5 Paid Advertisements
  • Subpart 5.6 Publicizing Multi-Agency Use Contracts
  • Subpart 5.7 Publicizing Requirements Under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009
• Part 6 Competition Requirements
  • Subpart 6.1 Full and Open Competition
  • Subpart 6.2 Full and Open Competition After Exclusion of Sources
  • Subpart 6.3 Other Than Full and Open Competition
  • Subpart 6.4 Sealed Bidding and Competitive Proposals
  • Subpart 6.5 Advocates for Competition
• Part 7 Acquisition Planning
  • Subpart 7.1 Acquisition Plans
  • Subpart 7.2 Planning for the Purchase of Supplies in Economic Quantities
  • Subpart 7.3 Contractor Versus Government Performance
  • Subpart 7.4 Equipment Acquisition
  • Subpart 7.5 Inherently Governmental Functions
• Part 8 Required Sources of Supplies and Services
  • Subpart 8.1 Excess Personal Property
  • Subpart 8.2 Reserved
  • Subpart 8.3 Reserved
  • Subpart 8.4 Federal Supply Schedules
  • Subpart 8.5 Reserved
  • Subpart 8.6 Acquisition from Federal Prison Industries, Inc
  • Subpart 8.7 Acquisition from Nonprofit Agencies Employing People Who Are Blind or Severely Disabled
  • Subpart 8.8 Acquisition of Printing and Related Supplies
  • Subpart 8.9 Reserved
  • Subpart 8.10 Reserved
  • Subpart 8.11 Leasing of Motor Vehicles
• Part 9 Contractor Qualifications
  • Subpart 9.1 Responsible Prospective Contractors
  • Subpart 9.2 Qualifications Requirements
  • Subpart 9.3 First Article Testing and Approval
  • Subpart 9.4 Debarment, Suspension, and Ineligibility
  • Subpart 9.5 Organizational and Consultant Conflicts of Interest
  • Subpart 9.6 Contractor Team Arrangements
  • Subpart 9.7 Defense Production Pools and Research and Development Pools
• Part 10 Market Research
• Part 11 Describing Agency Needs
  • Subpart 11.1 Selecting and Developing Requirements Documents
  • Subpart 11.2 Using and Maintaining Requirements Documents
  • Subpart 11.3 Acceptable Material
  • Subpart 11.4 Delivery or Performance Schedules
  • Subpart 11.5 Liquidated Damages
  • Subpart 11.6 Priorities and Allocations
  • Subpart 11.7 Variation in Quantity
  • Subpart 11.8 Testing
• Part 12 Acquisition of Commercial Products and Commercial Services
  • Subpart 12.1 Acquisition of Commercial Products and Commercial Services
  • Subpart 12.2 Special Requirements for the Acquisition of Commercial Products and Commercial Services
  • Subpart 12.3 Solicitation Provisions and Contract Clauses for the Acquisition of Commercial Products and Commercial Services
  • Subpart 12.4 Unique Requirements Regarding Terms and Conditions for Commercial Products and Commercial Services
  • Subpart 12.5 Applicability of Certain Laws to the Acquisition of Commercial Products, Commercial Services and Commercially Available Off-the-Shelf Items
  • Subpart 12.6 Streamlined Procedures for Evaluation and Solicitation for Commercial Products and Commercial Services
• Part 13 Simplified Acquisition Procedures
  • Subpart 13.1 Procedures
  • Subpart 13.2 Actions At or Below the Micro-Purchase Threshold
  • Subpart 13.3 Simplified Acquisition Methods
  • Subpart 13.4 Fast Payment Procedure
  • Subpart 13.5 Simplified Procedures for Certain Commercial Products and Commercial Services
• Part 14 Sealed Bidding
  • Subpart 14.1 Use of Sealed Bidding
  • Subpart 14.2 Solicitation of Bids
  • Subpart 14.3 Submission of Bids
  • Subpart 14.4 Opening of Bids and Award of Contract
  • Subpart 14.5 Two-Step Sealed Bidding
• Part 15 Contracting by Negotiation
  • Subpart 15.1 Source Selection Processes and Techniques
  • Subpart 15.2 Solicitation and Receipt of Proposals and Information
  • Subpart 15.3 Source Selection
  • Subpart 15.4 Contract Pricing
  • Subpart 15.5 Preaward, Award, and Postaward Notifications, Protests, and Mistakes
  • Subpart 15.6 Unsolicited Proposals
• Part 16 Types of Contracts
  • Subpart 16.1 Selecting Contract Types
  • Subpart 16.2 Fixed-Price Contracts
  • Subpart 16.3 Cost-Reimbursement Contracts
  • Subpart 16.4 Incentive Contracts
  • Subpart 16.5 Indefinite-Delivery Contracts
  • Subpart 16.6 Time-and-Materials, Labor-Hour, and Letter Contracts
  • Subpart 16.7 Agreements
• Part 17 Special Contracting Methods
  • Subpart 17.1 Multi-year Contracting
  • Subpart 17.2 Options
  • Subpart 17.3 Reserved
  • Subpart 17.4 Leader Company Contracting
  • Subpart 17.5 Interagency Acquisitions
  • Subpart 17.6 Management and Operating Contracts
  • Subpart 17.7 Interagency Acquisitions: Acquisitions by Nondefense Agencies on Behalf of the Department of Defense
  • Subpart 17.8 Reverse Auctions
• Part 18 Emergency Acquisitions
  • Subpart 18.1 Available Acquisition Flexibilities
  • Subpart 18.2 Emergency Acquisition Flexibilities
• Part 19 Small Business Programs
  • Subpart 19.1 Size Standards
  • Subpart 19.2 Policies
  • Subpart 19.3 Determination of Small Business Size and Status for Small Business Programs
  • Subpart 19.4 Cooperation with the Small Business Administration
  • Subpart 19.5 Small Business Total Set-Asides, Partial Set-Asides, and Reserves
  • Subpart 19.6 Certificates of Competency and Determinations of Responsibility
  • Subpart 19.7 The Small Business Subcontracting Program
  • Subpart 19.8 Contracting with the Small Business Administration (The 8(a) Program)
  • Subpart 19.9 Reserved
  • Subpart 19.10 Reserved
  • Subpart 19.11 Reserved
  • Subpart 19.12 Reserved
  • Subpart 19.13 Historically Underutilized Business Zone (HUBZone) Program
  • Subpart 19.14 Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business Program
  • Subpart 19.15 Women-Owned Small Business Program
• Part 20 Reserved
• Part 21 Reserved
• Part 22 Application of Labor Laws to Government Acquisitions
  • Subpart 22.1 Basic Labor Policies
  • Subpart 22.2 Convict Labor
  • Subpart 22.3 Contract Work Hours and Safety Standards Act
  • Subpart 22.4 Labor Standards for Contracts Involving Construction
  • Subpart 22.5 Use of Project Labor Agreements for Federal Construction Projects
  • Subpart 22.6 Contracts for Materials, Supplies, Articles, and Equipment
  • Subpart 22.7 Reserved
  • Subpart 22.8 Equal Employment Opportunity
  • Subpart 22.9 Nondiscrimination Because of Age
  • Subpart 22.10 Service Contract Labor Standards
  • Subpart 22.11 Professional Employee Compensation
  • Subpart 22.12 Reserved
  • Subpart 22.13 Equal Opportunity for Veterans
  • Subpart 22.14 Employment of Workers with Disabilities
  • Subpart 22.15 Prohibition of Acquisition of Products Produced by Forced or Indentured Child Labor
  • Subpart 22.16 Notification of Employee Rights Under the National Labor Relations Act
  • Subpart 22.17 Combating Trafficking in Persons
  • Subpart 22.18 Employment Eligibility Verification
  • Subpart 22.19 Increasing the Minimum Wage for Contractors
  • Subpart 22.20 Reserved
  • Subpart 22.21 Establishing Paid Sick Leave For Federal Contractors
• Part 23 Environment, Sustainable Acquisition, and Material Safety
  • Subpart 23.1 Sustainable Products and Services
  • Subpart 23.2 Energy Savings Performance Contracts
  • Subpart 23.3 Hazardous Material Identification, Material Safety Data, and Notice of Radioactive Materials
  • Subpart 23.4 Pollution Prevention, Environmental Management Systems, and Waste Reduction
  • Subpart 23.5 Greenhouse Gas Emissions
  • Subpart 23.6 Reserved
  • Subpart 23.7 Reserved
  • Subpart 23.8 Reserved
  • Subpart 23.9 Reserved
  • Subpart 23.10 Reserved
• Part 24 Protection of Privacy and Freedom of Information
  • Subpart 24.1 Protection of Individual Privacy
  • Subpart 24.2 Freedom of Information Act
  • Subpart 24.3 Privacy Training
• Part 25 Foreign Acquisition
  • Subpart 25.1 Buy American-Supplies
  • Subpart 25.2 Buy American-Construction Materials
  • Subpart 25.3 Contracts Performed Outside the United States
  • Subpart 25.4 Trade Agreements
  • Subpart 25.5 Evaluating Foreign Offers-Supply Contracts
  • Subpart 25.6 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act-Buy American statute-Construction Materials
  • Subpart 25.7 Prohibited Sources
  • Subpart 25.8 Other International Agreements and Coordination
  • Subpart 25.9 Customs and Duties
  • Subpart 25.10 Additional Foreign Acquisition Regulations
  • Subpart 25.11 Solicitation Provisions and Contract Clauses
• Part 26 Other Socioeconomic Programs
  • Subpart 26.1 Indian Incentive Program
  • Subpart 26.2 Major Disaster or Emergency Assistance Activities
  • Subpart 26.3 Historically Black Colleges and Universities and Minority Institutions
  • Subpart 26.4 Food Donations to Nonprofit Organizations
  • Subpart 26.5 Drug-Free Workplace
  • Subpart 26.6 Encouraging Contractor Policies to Ban Text Messaging While Driving
• Part 27 Patents, Data, and Copyrights
  • Subpart 27.1 General
  • Subpart 27.2 Patents and Copyrights
  • Subpart 27.3 Patent Rights under Government Contracts
  • Subpart 27.4 Rights in Data and Copyrights
  • Subpart 27.5 Foreign License and Technical Assistance Agreements
• Part 28 Bonds and Insurance
  • Subpart 28.1 Bonds and Other Financial Protections
  • Subpart 28.2 Sureties and Other Security for Bonds
  • Subpart 28.3 Insurance
• Part 29 Taxes
  • Subpart 29.1 General
  • Subpart 29.2 Federal Excise Taxes
  • Subpart 29.3 State and Local Taxes
  • Subpart 29.4 Contract Clauses
• Part 30 Cost Accounting Standards Administration
  • Subpart 30.1 General
  • Subpart 30.2 CAS Program Requirements
  • Subpart 30.3 Reserved
  • Subpart 30.4 Reserved
  • Subpart 30.5 Reserved
  • Subpart 30.6 CAS Administration
• Part 31 Contract Cost Principles and Procedures
  • Subpart 31.1 Applicability
  • Subpart 31.2 Contracts with Commercial Organizations
  • Subpart 31.3 Contracts with Educational Institutions
  • Subpart 31.4 Reserved
  • Subpart 31.5 Reserved
  • Subpart 31.6 Contracts with State, Local, and Federally Recognized Indian Tribal Governments
  • Subpart 31.7 Contracts with Nonprofit Organizations
• Part 32 Contract Financing
  • Subpart 32.1 Financing for Other Than a Commercial Purchase
  • Subpart 32.2 Commercial Product and Commercial Service Purchase Financing
  • Subpart 32.3 Loan Guarantees for Defense Production
  • Subpart 32.4 Advance Payments for Other Than Commercial Acquisitions
  • Subpart 32.5 Progress Payments Based on Costs
  • Subpart 32.6 Contract Debts
  • Subpart 32.7 Contract Funding
  • Subpart 32.8 Assignment of Claims
  • Subpart 32.9 Prompt Payment
  • Subpart 32.10 Performance-Based Payments
  • Subpart 32.11 Electronic Funds Transfer
• Part 33 Protests, Disputes, and Appeals
  • Subpart 33.1 Protests
  • Subpart 33.2 Disputes and Appeals
• Part 34 Major System Acquisition
  • Subpart 34.1 Testing, Qualification and Use of Industrial Resources Developed Under TitleIII, Defense Production Act
  • Subpart 34.2 Earned Value Management System
• Part 35 Research and Development Contracting
• Part 36 Construction and Architect-Engineer Contracts
  • Subpart 36.1 General
  • Subpart 36.2 Special Aspects of Contracting for Construction
  • Subpart 36.3 Two-Phase Design-Build Selection Procedures
  • Subpart 36.4 Reserved
  • Subpart 36.5 Contract Clauses
  • Subpart 36.6 Architect-Engineer Services
  • Subpart 36.7 Standard and Optional Forms for Contracting for Construction, Architect-Engineer Services, and Dismantling, Demolition, or Removal of Improvements
• Part 37 Service Contracting
  • Subpart 37.1 Service Contracts-General
  • Subpart 37.2 Advisory and Assistance Services
  • Subpart 37.3 Dismantling, Demolition, or Removal of Improvements
  • Subpart 37.4 Nonpersonal Health Care Services
  • Subpart 37.5 Management Oversight of Service Contracts
  • Subpart 37.6 Performance-Based Acquisition
• Part 38 Federal Supply Schedule Contracting
  • Subpart 38.1 Federal Supply Schedule Program
  • Subpart 38.2 Establishing and Administering Federal Supply Schedules
• Part 39 Acquisition of Information Technology
  • Subpart 39.1 General
  • Subpart 39.2 Information and Communication Technology
• Part 40 Information Security and Supply Chain Security
  • Subpart 40.1 Reserved
  • Subpart 40.2 Security Prohibitions and Exclusions
  • Subpart 40.3 Reserved
• Part 41 Acquisition of Utility Services
  • Subpart 41.1 General
  • Subpart 41.2 Acquiring Utility Services
  • Subpart 41.3 Requests for Assistance
  • Subpart 41.4 Administration
  • Subpart 41.5 Solicitation Provision and Contract Clauses
  • Subpart 41.6 Forms
  • Subpart 41.7 Formats
• Part 42 Contract Administration and Audit Services
  • Subpart 42.1 Contract Audit Services
  • Subpart 42.2 Contract Administration Services
  • Subpart 42.3 Contract Administration Office Functions
  • Subpart 42.4 Correspondence and Visits
  • Subpart 42.5 Postaward Orientation
  • Subpart 42.6 Corporate Administrative Contracting Officer
  • Subpart 42.7 Indirect Cost Rates
  • Subpart 42.8 Disallowance of Costs
  • Subpart 42.9 Bankruptcy
  • Subpart 42.10 Reserved
  • Subpart 42.11 Production Surveillance and Reporting
  • Subpart 42.12 Novation and Change-of-Name Agreements
  • Subpart 42.13 Suspension of Work, Stop-Work Orders, and Government Delay of Work
  • Subpart 42.14 Reserved
  • Subpart 42.15 Contractor Performance Information
  • Subpart 42.16 Small Business Contract Administration
  • Subpart 42.17 Forward Pricing Rate Agreements
• Part 43 Contract Modifications
  • Subpart 43.1 General
  • Subpart 43.2 Change Orders
  • Subpart 43.3 Forms
• Part 44 Subcontracting Policies and Procedures
  • Subpart 44.1 General
  • Subpart 44.2 Consent to Subcontracts
  • Subpart 44.3 Contractors’ Purchasing Systems Reviews
  • Subpart 44.4 Subcontracts for Commercial Products and Commercial Services
• Part 45 Government Property
  • Subpart 45.1 General
  • Subpart 45.2 Solicitation and Evaluation Procedures
  • Subpart 45.3 Authorizing the Use and Rental of Government Property
  • Subpart 45.4 Title to Government Property
  • Subpart 45.5 Support Government Property Administration
  • Subpart 45.6 Reporting, Reutilization, and Disposal
• Part 46 Quality Assurance
  • Subpart 46.1 General
  • Subpart 46.2 Contract Quality Requirements
  • Subpart 46.3 Contract Clauses
  • Subpart 46.4 Government Contract Quality Assurance
  • Subpart 46.5 Acceptance
  • Subpart 46.6 Material Inspection and Receiving Reports
  • Subpart 46.7 Warranties
  • Subpart 46.8 Contractor Liability for Loss of or Damage to Property of the Government
• Part 47 Transportation
  • Subpart 47.1 General
  • Subpart 47.2 Contracts for Transportation or for Transportation-Related Services
  • Subpart 47.3 Transportation in Supply Contracts
  • Subpart 47.4 Air Transportation by U.S.-Flag Carriers
  • Subpart 47.5 Ocean Transportation by U.S.-Flag Vessels
• Part 48 Value Engineering
  • Subpart 48.1 Policies and Procedures
  • Subpart 48.2 Contract Clauses
• Part 49 Termination of Contracts
  • Subpart 49.1 General Principles
  • Subpart 49.2 Additional Principles for Fixed-Price Contracts Terminated for Convenience
  • Subpart 49.3 Additional Principles for Cost-Reimbursement Contracts Terminated for Convenience
  • Subpart 49.4 Termination for Default
  • Subpart 49.5 Contract Termination Clauses
  • Subpart 49.6 Contract Termination Forms and Formats
• Part 50 Extraordinary Contractual Actions and the SAFETY Act
  • Subpart 50.1 Extraordinary Contractual Actions
  • Subpart 50.2 Support Anti-terrorism by Fostering Effective Technologies Act of 2002
• Part 51 Use of Government Sources by Contractors
  • Subpart 51.1 Contractor Use of Government Supply Sources
  • Subpart 51.2 Contractor Use of Interagency Fleet Management System (IFMS) Vehicles
• Part 52 Solicitation Provisions and Contract Clauses
  • Subpart 52.1 Instructions for Using Provisions and Clauses
  • Subpart 52.2 Text of Provisions and Clauses
  • Subpart 52.3 Provision and Clause Matrix
• Part 53 Forms
  • Subpart 53.1 General
  • Subpart 53.2 Prescription of Forms
  • Subpart 53.3 Forms Used in Acquisitions