[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 48, Volume 1]
[Revised as of October 1, 2003]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 48CFR46]

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            TITLE 48--FEDERAL ACQUISITION REGULATIONS SYSTEM
 
                CHAPTER 1--FEDERAL ACQUISITION REGULATION
 
PART 46_QUALITY ASSURANCE--Table of Contents
 
                      Subpart 46.3_Contract Clauses
 
Sec.  46.302  Fixed-price supply contracts.

    The contracting officer shall insert the clause at 52.246-2, 
Inspection of Supplies--Fixed-Price, in solicitations and contracts for 
supplies, or services that involve the furnishing of supplies, when a 
fixed-price contract is contemplated and the contract amount is expected 
to exceed the simplified acquisition threshold. The contracting officer 
may insert the clause in such solicitations and contracts when the 
contract amount is expected to be at or below the simplified acquisition 
threshold and inclusion of the clause is in the Government's interest. 
If a fixed-price incentive contract is contemplated, the contracting 
officer shall use the clause with its Alternate I. If a fixed-ceiling-
price contract with retroactive price redetermination is contemplated, 
the contracting officer shall use the clause with its Alternate II.

[48 FR 42415, Sept. 19, 1983, as amended at 60 FR 34760, July 3, 1995]