Subchapter E - General Contracting

Requirements

General Services Administration Acquisition Manual

General Services Administration Acquisition Manual

Part 527 - Patents, Data, and Copyrights

Subpart 527.3 - Patent Rights under Government Contracts

527.306 Licensing background patent rights to third parties.

Subpart 527.4 - Rights in Data and Copyrights

527.409 Contract clauses.

Part 528 - Bonds and Insurance

Subpart 528.1 - Bonds and Other Financial Protections

528.101 Bid guarantees.

528.101-1 Policy on use.

528.102 Performance and payment bonds and alternative payment

protections for construction contracts.

528.102-1 General.

528.103 Performance and payment bonds for other than construction

contracts.

528.103-2 Performance bonds.

528.103-3 Payment bonds.

528.106 Administration.

528.106-6 Furnishing information.

Subpart 528.2 - Sureties and Other Security for Bonds

528.202 Acceptability of corporate sureties.

528.202-70 Acceptability of bonds and sureties.

528.203 Acceptability of individual sureties.

528.203-7 Exclusion of individual sureties.

528.204 Alternatives in lieu of corporate or individual sureties.

Subpart 528.3 - Insurance

528.301 Policy.

528.310 Contract clause for work on a Government installation.

528.311 Solicitation provision and contract clause on liability insurance

under cost-reimbursement contracts.

528.311-1 Contract clause.

Part 529 - Taxes

Subpart 529.1 - General

529.101 Policy.

Subpart 529.3 - State and Local Taxes

529.302 Application of State and local taxes to the Government.

Subpart 529.4 - Contract Clauses

529.470 Domestic contract clauses.

Part 530 - Cost Accounting Standards Administration

Subpart 530.2 - CAS Program Requirements

530.202 [Reserved]

530.201-5 Waiver.

Part 531 - Contract Cost Principles and Procedures
Subpart 531.1 - Applicability

531.101 Objectives.

Part 532 - Contract Financing

Subpart 532.1 —Financing for Other Than a Commercial Purchase

532.103 Progress payments under construction contracts.

532.111 Contract clauses for non-commercial purchases.

532.112 Non payment of subcontractors under contracts other than for

commercial products and commercial services.

532.112-1 Subcontractor assertions of nonpayment.

Subpart 532.4 - Advance Payments for Other Than Commercial Acquisitions

532.402 General.

532.407 Interest.

Subpart 532.5 - Progress Payments Based on Costs

532.501 General.

532.501-2 Unusual progress payments.

532.502 Preaward matters.

532.502-2 Contract finance office clearance.

532.503-5 Administration of progress payments.

532.503-6 Suspension or reduction of payments.

532.503-9 Liquidation rates—alternate method.

Subpart 532.6 - Contract Debts

532.606 Debt determination and collection.

Subpart 532.7 - Contract Funding

532.700 Scope of subpart.

532.702 Policy.

532.703 Contract funding requirements.

532.705 Unenforceability of unauthorized obligations.

532.706 Contract clauses.

532.706-3 Contract clauses for unenforceability of unauthorized

obligations.

Subpart 532.8 - Assignment of Claims

532.805 Procedure.

532.806 Contract clauses.

Subpart 532.9 - Prompt Payment

532.904 Determining payment due dates.

532.905 Payment documentation and process.

532.905-70 Final payment—construction and building service

contracts.

532.908 Contract clauses.

Subpart 532.11 - Electronic Funds Transfer

[Reserved]

Subpart 532.70 - Authorizing Payment by Government Charge Card

532.7002 Solicitation requirements.

532.7003 Contract clause.

Subpart 532.71 - [Reserved]

Subpart 532.72 - Payments Under Contracts Subject to Audit

532.7201 General.

532.7202 Submission and processing of invoices or vouchers.

532.7203 Action upon receipt of an audit report.

532.7204 Suspension and disapproval of amounts claimed.

Part 533 - Protests, Disputes, and Appeals
Subpart 533.1 - Protests

533.101 Definitions.

533.102 General.

533.103 Protests to the agency.

533.103-1 Filing a protest.

533.103-2 Deciding a protest.

533.104 Protests to GAO.

533.105 Court of Federal Claims Protests.

Subpart 533.2 - Disputes and Appeals

533.209 Suspected fraudulent claims.

533.211 Contracting officer’s decision.

533.212 Contracting officer’s duties when an appeal is filed.

533.212-1 General.

533.212-2 Procedures when an appeal is filed.

533.212-3 Preservation of Evidence.

533.212-4 Settlement.

533.214 Alternative dispute resolution (ADR).