--- name: far-check description: >- Checks a federal solicitation or contract against the Federal Acquisition Regulation. Looks for the contracting officer who may bind the Government, SAM registration and the unique entity identifier, the commercial products and commercial services provisions 52.212-1 through 52.212-5, any small business set- aside with its NAICS code and size standard, and the offer due date and acceptance period. --- # FAR check ## Who this applies to The FAR binds a federal executive agency acquiring supplies or services by contract with appropriated funds (FAR 1.104, FAR 2.101). It does not bind a state, county, city, school district or airport authority, and a federal grant does not bring it with the money: grants are assistance, not acquisition, and their conditions come from 2 CFR 200 instead. If this document is a grant or a state or local solicitation, say so in one sentence and stop; do not apply FAR clauses to it. Two FAR texts are in force at this edition. The Revolutionary FAR Overhaul has issued rewritten model text for fifty-one parts, adopted agency by agency as class deviations, and the Department of War directs use of the overhaul definitions in lieu of FAR 2.101. This check therefore names clauses as they appear in the document and reports the thresholds that are identical in both texts; it does not decide which text binds the issuing agency, and it says so under "Not checked". A Department of War solicitation also carries the DFARS, which is a separate check. ## The regulation text is in this Skill's own folder The rules this check cites are bundled under `reference/`, so quote the rule itself rather than only naming it. The files are whole parts and are large, which is why you should `grep` for the citation you want and read the region around the hit rather than reading a file from end to end. Every file opens with a header naming its publisher, the address it came from and which edition this copy is. Where the bundled copy and the publisher's current version differ, the publisher's version governs and this copy is stale, so say that rather than presenting the bundled wording as necessarily current. | File under `reference/` | What it settles | | -------------------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | | `far-part-1-system-and-contracting-officer-authority.md` | who may bind the Government, at 1.601 and 1.602-1 | | `far-part-2-definitions-and-thresholds.md` | the defined terms and the dollar thresholds, at 2.101 | | `far-part-12-commercial-products-and-services.md` | which provisions a commercial solicitation must carry, at 12.301 | | `far-52-212-commercial-provisions-and-clauses.md` | the text of 52.212-1, -2, -3, -4 and -5 | | `far-52-204-registration-and-supply-chain-clauses.md` | the text of 52.204-7, -13, -24 and -25 | | `far-52-219-small-business-set-aside-clauses.md` | the text of 52.219-1, -6 and -28 | | `far-overhaul-deviation-guide.md` | which parts have overhaul model text, and which agencies have deviated | FAR Part 19 is not bundled, so a question that turns on the set-aside procedures rather than on the clause text is one to name as unchecked rather than to answer from memory. ## Do this 1. Read the whole document. Identify the issuing agency, the solicitation or contract number, the contracting officer, whether it uses the commercial products and services procedures of FAR Part 12 (look for 52.212-1 through 52.212-5), and whether the agency has adopted an overhaul class deviation for the parts cited. 2. Check these points and report each as found, not found, or not applicable, with the paragraph. Before you report a point, grep the bundled file named beside it, because the wording of the rule is what decides whether the document satisfies it: - The contracting officer is named and the document says who may bind the Government (FAR 1.601, 1.602-1, in `far-part-1-...`). - SAM registration and the Unique Entity ID requirement appear (52.204-7, 52.204-13, in `far-52-204-...`). - If Part 12 applies: 52.212-1 instructions to offerors, 52.212-3 representations and certifications, 52.212-4 terms and conditions, and 52.212-5 statute-implementing clauses are each present or incorporated by reference, and any additions to 52.212-4 are called out. The prescription is at 12.301 and the clause text is in `far-52-212-...`. - Any set-aside (small business, 8(a), HUBZone, SDVOSB, WOSB) is stated with its NAICS code and size standard, and where 52.219-6 is used its limitation on subcontracting is addressed. - The dollar thresholds the document relies on are the current ones. Read the simplified acquisition threshold and the micro-purchase threshold out of 2.101 in `far-part-2-...` and quote them, rather than stating a figure from memory, because both are adjusted for inflation every few years and a superseded figure is the commonest error in this check. - Evaluation basis (lowest price technically acceptable, best value tradeoff) is stated. - Offer due date and time, and the period for acceptance of offers, are stated and do not conflict anywhere in the document. 3. Suggest an edit only where the fix is wording inside this document for one of the points above, such as a conflicting due date or a superseded identifier; otherwise describe the gap in one line. 4. End with one short paragraph headed "Not checked", naming what this check did not cover and why, in plain sentences. ## Sources Every rule quoted above is carried in the bundled `reference/` folder, so this check does not need to fetch anything. These are the editions it was built from, and the place to confirm a point that matters: - **FAR Part 1, Federal Acquisition Regulations System (48 CFR Part 1)** https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-48/chapter-1/subchapter-A/part-1 eCFR as amended through 2026-09-01 - **FAR Part 2, Definitions of Words and Terms (48 CFR Part 2)** https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-48/chapter-1/subchapter-A/part-2 eCFR as amended through 2026-09-01 - **FAR Part 12, Acquisition of Commercial Products and Commercial Services** https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-48/chapter-1/subchapter-C/part-12 eCFR as amended through 2026-09-01 - **FAR 52.212-1 through 52.212-5, the commercial provisions and clauses** https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-48/chapter-1/subchapter-H/part-52/subpart-52.2 eCFR as amended through 2026-09-01 - **FAR 52.204-7, 52.204-13, 52.204-24 and 52.204-25, registration and covered telecommunications** https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-48/chapter-1/subchapter-H/part-52/subpart-52.2 eCFR as amended through 2026-09-01 - **FAR 52.219-1, 52.219-6 and 52.219-28, small business representations and set-asides** https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-48/chapter-1/subchapter-H/part-52/subpart-52.2 eCFR as amended through 2026-09-01 - **Revolutionary FAR Overhaul, FAR part deviation guide** https://www.acquisition.gov/far-overhaul/far-part-deviation-guide as published 2026-09 - **FAR Part 19, Small Business Programs, which is named rather than carried here** https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-48/chapter-1/subchapter-D/part-19 consult the publisher