FAR 7.102 — Policy
Regulatory text. Not legal advice.
(a)
(a) Agencies shall perform acquisition planning and conduct market research (see FAR Part 10) for all acquisitions in order to promote and provide for—
(1) Acquisition of commercial products or commercial services, or to the extent that commercial products suitable to meet the agency’s needs are not available, nondevelopmental items, to the maximum extent practicable (10 U.S.C. 3453 and 41 U.S.C. 3307);
(2) Full and open competition (see FAR Part 6) or, when full and open competition is not required in accordance with FAR Part 6, to obtain competition to the maximum extent practicable, with due regard to the nature of the supplies or services to be acquired (10 U.S.C. 3206(a)(1)and 41 U.S.C. 3306(a)(1));
(3) Selection of appropriate contract type in accordance with FAR Part 16; and
(4) Appropriate consideration of the use of pre-existing contracts, including interagency and intra-agency contracts, to fulfill the requirement, before awarding new contracts. (See FAR 8.002 through FAR 8.004 and FAR Subpart 17.5).
(b)
(b) This planning shall integrate the efforts of all personnel responsible for significant aspects of the acquisition. The purpose of this planning is to ensure that the Government meets its needs in the most effective, economical, and timely manner. Agencies that have a detailed acquisition planning system in place that generally meets the requirements of FAR 7.104 and FAR 7.105 need not revise their system to specifically meet all of these requirements.
Citation history: [60 FR 48236, Sept. 18, 1995, as amended at 76 FR 14546, Mar. 16, 2011; 78 FR 80378, Dec. 31, 2013; 79 FR 24198, Apr. 29, 2014; 84 FR 19843, May 6, 2019; 86 FR 61020, Nov. 4, 2021; 87 FR 73896, Dec. 1, 2022]
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