48 CFR 217.7401 : Federal Acquisition Regulations System (Section 1.000 To Parts 9906-9999) — Defense Acquisition Regulations System, Department Of Defense (Parts 200 - 299) (Appendix A To Chapter 2 To Parts 254-299) — Contracting Methods And Contract Types (Parts 213 - 218) (Section 213.101 To Section 218.271) — Special Contracting Methods (Section 217.103 To Section 217.7802) — Undefinitized Contract Actions (Section 217.7400 To Section 217.7406) — Definitions.

As used in this subpart—

(a) Contract action means an action which results in a contract.

(1) It includes contract modifications for additional supplies or services.

(2) It includes task orders and delivery orders.

(3) It does not include change orders, administrative changes, funding modifications, or any other contract modifications that are within the scope and under the terms of the contract, e.g., engineering change proposals, value engineering change proposals, and over and above work requests as described in Subpart 217.77. For policy relating to definitization of change orders, see 243.204-70.

(b) Definitization means the agreement on, or determination of, contract terms, specifications, and price, which converts the undefinitized contract action to a definitive contract.

(c) Qualifying proposal means a proposal containing sufficient data for the DoD to do complete and meaningful analyses and audits of the—

(1) Data in the proposal; and

(2) Any other data that the contracting officer has determined DoD needs to review in connection with the contract.

(d) Undefinitized contract action means any contract action for which the contract terms, specifications, or price are not agreed upon before performance is begun under the action. Examples are letter contracts, orders under basic ordering agreements, and provisioned item orders, for which the price has not been agreed upon before performance has begun. For policy relating to definitization of change orders, see 243.204-70.