Federal

Title 41 — Public Contracts

241 sections, each with the official text and a plain-English explanation of what it means for you.

• § 101 — Administrator
• § 102 — Commercial component
• § 103 — Commercial product
• § 103a — Commercial service
• § 104 — Commercially available off-the-shelf item
• § 105 — Component
• § 106 — Federal Acquisition Regulation
• § 107 — Full and open competition
• § 108 — Item and item of supply
• § 109 — Major system
• § 110 — Nondevelopmental item
• § 1101 — Office of Federal Procurement Policy
• § 1102 — Administrator
• § 111 — Procurement
• § 112 — Procurement system
• § 1121 — General authority
• § 1122 — Functions
• § 1123 — Small business concerns
• § 1124 — Tests of innovative procurement methods and procedures
• § 1125 — Recipients of Federal grants or assistance
• § 1126 — Policy regarding consideration of contractor past performance
• § 1127 — Determining benchmark compensation amount
• § 1128 — Maintaining necessary capability with respect to acquisition of architectural and engineering services
• § 1129 — Center of excellence in contracting for services
• § 113 — Responsible source
• § 1130 — Effect of division on other law
• § 1131 — Annual report
• § 114 — Standards
• § 115 — Supplies
• § 116 — Technical data
• § 1201 — Federal Acquisition Institute
• § 1301 — Definition
• § 1302 — Establishment and membership
• § 1303 — Functions and authority
• § 1304 — Contract clauses and certifications
• § 131 — Acquisition
• § 1311 — Establishment and membership
• § 1312 — Functions
• § 132 — Competitive procedures
• § 1321 — Definitions
• § 1322 — Federal Acquisition Security Council establishment and membership
• § 1323 — Functions and authorities
• § 1324 — Strategic plan
• § 1325 — Annual report
• § 1326 — Requirements for executive agencies
• § 1327 — Judicial review procedures
• § 1328 — Termination
• § 133 — Executive agency
• § 134 — Simplified acquisition threshold
• § 1501 — Cost Accounting Standards Board
• § 1502 — Cost accounting standards
• § 1503 — Contract price adjustment
• § 1504 — Effect on other standards and regulations
• § 1505 — Examinations
• § 1506 — Authorization of appropriations
• § 151 — Agency head
• § 152 — Competitive procedures
• § 153 — Simplified acquisition threshold for contract in support of humanitarian or peacekeeping operation
• § 1701 — Cooperation with the Administrator
• § 1702 — Chief Acquisition Officers and senior procurement executives
• § 1703 — Acquisition workforce
• § 1704 — Planning and policy-making for acquisition workforce
• § 1705 — Advocates for competition
• § 1706 — Personnel evaluation
• § 1707 — Publication of proposed regulations
• § 1708 — Procurement notice
• § 1709 — Contracting functions performed by Federal personnel
• § 1710 — Public-private competition required before conversion to contractor performance
• § 1711 — Value engineering
• § 1712 — Record requirements
• § 1713 — Procurement data
• § 1901 — Simplified acquisition procedures
• § 1902 — Procedures applicable to purchases below micro-purchase threshold
• § 1903 — Special emergency procurement authority
• § 1904 — Certain transactions for defense against attack
• § 1905 — List of laws inapplicable to contracts or subcontracts not greater than simplified acquisition threshold
• § 1906 — List of laws inapplicable to procurements of commercial products and commercial services
• § 1907 — List of laws inapplicable to procurements of commercially available off-the-shelf items
• § 1908 — Inflation adjustment of acquisition-related dollar thresholds
• § 1909 — Management of purchase cards
• § 2101 — Definitions
• § 2102 — Prohibitions on disclosing and obtaining procurement information
• § 2103 — Actions required of procurement officers when contacted regarding non-Federal employment
• § 2104 — Prohibition on former official’s acceptance of compensation from contractor
• § 2105 — Penalties and administrative actions
• § 2106 — Reporting information believed to constitute evidence of offense
• § 2107 — Savings provisions
• § 2301 — Use of electronic commerce in Federal procurement
• § 2302 — Rights in technical data
• § 2303 — Ethics safeguards related to contractor conflicts of interest
• § 2304 — Conflict of interest standards for consultants
• § 2305 — Authority of Director of Office of Management and Budget not affected
• § 2306 — Openness of meetings
• § 2307 — Comptroller General’s access to information
• § 2308 — Modular contracting for information technology
• § 2309 — Protection of constitutional rights of contractors
• § 2310 — Performance-based contracts or task orders for services to be treated as contracts for the procurement of commercial items
• § 2311 — Enhanced transparency on interagency contracting and other transactions
• § 2312 — Contingency Contracting Corps
• § 2313 — Database for Federal agency contract and grant officers and suspension and debarment officials
• § 3101 — Applicability
• § 3102 — Delegation and assignment of powers, functions, and responsibilities
• § 3103 — Acquisition programs
• § 3104 — Small business concerns
• § 3105 — New contracts and grants and merit-based selection procedures
• § 3106 — Erection, repair, or furnishing of public buildings and improvements not authorized, and certain contracts not permitted, by this division
• § 3301 — Full and open competition
• § 3302 — Requirements for purchase of property and services pursuant to multiple award contracts
• § 3303 — Exclusion of particular source or restriction of solicitation to small business concerns
• § 3304 — Use of noncompetitive procedures
• § 3305 — Simplified procedures for small purchases
• § 3306 — Planning and solicitation requirements
• § 3307 — Preference for commercial products and commercial services
• § 3308 — Planning for future competition in contracts for major systems
• § 3309 — Design-build selection procedures
• § 3310 — Quantities to order
• § 3311 — Qualification requirement
• § 3312 — Database on price trends of items and services under Federal contracts
• § 3501 — General
• § 3502 — Required cost or pricing data and certification
• § 3503 — Exceptions
• § 3504 — Cost or pricing data on below-threshold contracts
• § 3505 — Submission of other information
• § 3506 — Price reductions for defective cost or pricing data
• § 3507 — Interest and penalties for certain overpayments
• § 3508 — Right to examine contractor records
• § 3509 — Notification of violations of Federal criminal law or overpayments
• § 3701 — Basis of award and rejection
• § 3702 — Sealed bids
• § 3703 — Competitive proposals
• § 3704 — Post-award debriefings
• § 3705 — Pre-award debriefings
• § 3706 — Encouragement of alternative dispute resolution
• § 3707 — Antitrust violations
• § 3708 — Protests
• § 3901 — Contracts awarded using procedures other than sealed-bid procedures
• § 3902 — Severable services contracts for periods crossing fiscal years
• § 3903 — Multiyear contracts
• § 3904 — Contract authority for severable services contracts and multiyear contracts
• § 3905 — Cost contracts
• § 3906 — Cost-reimbursement contracts
• § 4101 — Definitions
• § 4102 — Authorities or responsibilities not affected
• § 4103 — General authority
• § 4104 — Guidance on use of task and delivery order contracts
• § 4105 — Advisory and assistance services
• § 4106 — Orders
• § 4301 — Definitions
• § 4302 — Adjustment of threshold amount of covered contract
• § 4303 — Effect of submission of unallowable costs
• § 4304 — Specific costs not allowable
• § 4305 — Required regulations
• § 4306 — Applicability of regulations to subcontractors
• § 4307 — Contractor certification
• § 4308 — Penalties for submission of cost known to be unallowable
• § 4309 — Burden of proof on contractor
• § 4310 — Proceeding costs not allowable
• § 4501 — Authority of executive agency
• § 4502 — Payment
• § 4503 — Security for advance payments
• § 4504 — Conditions for progress payments
• § 4505 — Payments for commercial products and commercial services
• § 4506 — Action in case of fraud
• § 4701 — Determinations and decisions
• § 4702 — Prohibition on release of contractor proposals
• § 4703 — Validation of proprietary data restrictions
• § 4704 — Prohibition of contractors limiting subcontractor sales directly to Federal Government
• § 4705 — Protection of contractor employees from reprisal for disclosure of certain information
• § 4706 — Examination of facilities and records of contractor
• § 4707 — Remission of liquidated damages
• § 4708 — Payment of reimbursable indirect costs in cost-type research and development contracts with educational institutions
• § 4709 — Implementation of electronic commerce capability
• § 4710 — Limitations on tiering of subcontractors
• § 4711 — Linking of award and incentive fees to acquisition outcomes
• § 4712 — Enhancement of contractor protection from reprisal for disclosure of certain information
• § 4713 — Authorities relating to mitigating supply chain risks in the procurement of covered articles
• § 4714 — Prohibition on criminal history inquiries by contractors prior to conditional offer
• § 6101 — Advertising requirement for Federal Government purchases and sales
• § 6102 — Exceptions from advertising requirement
• § 6103 — Opening of bids
• § 6301 — Authorization requirement
• § 6302 — Contracts for fuel made by Secretary of the Army
• § 6303 — Certain contracts limited to appropriated amounts
• § 6304 — Certain contracts limited to one-year term
• § 6305 — Prohibition on transfer of contract and certain allowable assignments
• § 6306 — Prohibition on Members of Congress making contracts with Federal Government
• § 6307 — Contracts with Federal Government-owned establishments and availability of appropriations
• § 6308 — Contracts for transportation of Federal Government securities
• § 6309 — Honorable discharge certificate in lieu of birth certificate
• § 6310 — Requirement for agencies to buy domestically made United States flags
• § 6501 — Definitions
• § 6502 — Required contract terms
• § 6503 — Breach or violation of required contract terms
• § 6504 — Three-year prohibition on new contracts in case of breach or violation
• § 6505 — Exclusions
• § 6506 — Administrative provisions
• § 6507 — Hearing authority and procedures
• § 6508 — Authority to make exceptions
• § 6509 — Other procedures
• § 6510 — Manufacturers and regular dealers