Regulations last checked for updates: May 19, 2024

Title 48 - Federal Acquisition Regulations System last revised: May 14, 2024
212.505 - 212.505 Applicability of certain laws to contracts for the acquisition of COTS items.

Commercially available off-the-shelf (COTS) items are a subset of commercial products. Therefore, any laws listed at FAR 12.503, FAR 12.504, 212.503, or 212.504 are also not applicable or modified in their applicability to contracts for the acquisition of COTS items. In addition to the laws listed at FAR 12.505 as specifically not applicable to COTS items, the following laws are not applicable to contracts for the acquisition of COTS items:

(1) 10 U.S.C. 391,Reporting,and.S.C. 393, Reporting on Penetrations of Networks and Information Systems of Certain Contractors.

(2) Paragraph (a)(1) of 10 U.S.C. 4863,Requirement,except.7003-3(b)(2)(i).

(3) Paragraph (a)(1) of 10 U.S.C. 4872,Prohibition,except.7018-3(c)(1).

[88 FR 80465, Nov. 17, 2023]
authority: 41 U.S.C. 1303 and 48 CFR chapter 1
source: 60 FR 61595, Nov. 30, 1995, unless otherwise noted.
cite as: 48 CFR 212.505