Administracja i zamówienia · 30.01.2003

Federal Acquisition Regulation; Commercially Available Off-the-Shelf Items

The Federal Acquisition Regulatory Council is soliciting comments regarding the implementation of section 4203 of the Federal Acquisition Reform Act (the Act) with respect to Commercially Available Off-the-Shelf Item Acquisitions. The Act requires the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) to list certain provisions of law that are inapplicable to contracts for acquisition of commercially available off-the-shelf items. The statute excludes section 15 of the Small Business Act and bid protest procedures from the list. The list of statutes cannot include a provision of law that provides for criminal or civil penalties. Certain laws have already been determined to be inapplicable to all commercial items as a result of the implementation of the Federal Acquisition Streamlining Act of 1994 (see FAR 12.503). The additional provisions of law that could be determined inapplicable to commercially available off-the-shelf items are listed under SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION below.