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opportunities with DoD and expand the
number of businesses capable of
participating in Government contracts.
Comments and recommendations on
the proposed information collection
should be sent to Ms. Jasmeet Seehra,
DoD Desk Officer, at Oira_submission@
omb.eop.gov. Please identify the
proposed information collection by DoD
Desk Officer and the Docket ID number
and title of the information collection.
You may also submit comments,
identified by docket number and title,
by the following method: Federal
eRulemaking Portal: https://
www.regulations.gov. Follow the
instructions for submitting comments.
DoD Clearance Officer: Ms. Angela
James. Requests for copies of the
information collection proposal should
be sent to Ms. James at whs.mcalex.esd.mbx.dd-dod-informationcollections@mail.mil.
Jennifer Lee Hawes,
Regulatory Control Officer, Defense
Acquisition Regulations System.
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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Defense Acquisition Regulations
System
[Docket Number DARS–2020–0005; OMB
Control Number 0704–0229]
Information Collection Requirement;
Defense Federal Acquisition
Regulation Supplement (DFARS);
Foreign Acquisition; Submission for
OMB Review; Comment Request
Defense Acquisition
Regulations System, Department of
Defense (DoD).
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
The Defense Acquisition
Regulations System has submitted to
OMB for clearance, the following
proposed revision and extension of a
collection of information under the
provisions of the Paperwork Reduction
Act.
DATES: Consideration will be given to all
comments received by June 29, 2020.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title, Associated Form, and OMB
Number: Defense Federal Acquisition
Regulation Supplement (DFARS)
Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation
Supplement Part 225, Foreign
Acquisition, and Related Clauses at
252.225; DD Form 2139; OMB Control
Number 0704–0229.
Affected Public: Businesses or other
for-profit and not-for-profit institutions.
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Number of Respondents: 39,221.
Responses per Respondent: 10
(approximately).
Annual Responses: 382,876.
Average Burden per Response: .28
hours (approximately).
Annual Burden Hours: 106,730
(106,995 reporting hours and
recordkeeping hours).
Reporting Frequency: On occasion.
Needs and Uses: DoD needs this
information to ensure compliance with
restrictions on the acquisition of foreign
products imposed by statute or policy to
protect the industrial base; to ensure
compliance with U.S. trade agreements
and memoranda of understanding that
promote reciprocal trade with the U.S.
allies; and to prepare reports for
submission to the Department of
Commerce on the Balance of Payments
Program. This information collection
includes requirements related to foreign
acquisition in DFARS Part 225, Foreign
Acquisition, and the related clauses at
DFARS 252.225 as follows:
DFARS 252.225–7000, Buy
American—Balance of Payments
Program Certificate, as prescribed in
225.1101(1) and (1)(i), requires the
offeror to identify in its proposal
supplies that do not meet the definition
of domestic end product, separately
listing qualifying country and other
foreign end products. The Buy
American statute does not apply to
acquisitions of commercial information
technology.
DFARS 252.225–7003, Report of
Intended Performance Outside the
United States and Canada—Submission
with Offer, and 252.225–7004, Report of
Intended Performance Outside the
United States and Canada—Submission
after Award, as prescribed in DFARS
225.7204(a) and (b) respectively, require
offerors and contractors to submit a
Report of Contract Performance Outside
the United States for subcontracts to be
performed outside the United States.
The reporting threshold is $750,000 for
contracts that exceed $15 million. The
contractor may submit the report on DD
Form 2139, Report of Contract
Performance Outside the United States,
or a computer-generated report that
contains all information required by DD
Form 2139.
DFARS 252.225–7005, Identification
of Expenditures in the United States, as
prescribed in DFARS 225.1103(1),
requires contractors incorporated or
located in the United States to identify,
on each request for payment under
contracts for supplies to be used, or for
construction or services to be
performed, outside the United States,
that part of the requested payment
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representing estimated expenditures in
the United States.
DFARS 252.225–7010, Commercial
Derivative Military Article—Specialty
Metals Compliance Certificate, as
prescribed at DFARS 225.7003–5(b),
requires the offeror to certify that it will
take certain actions with regard to
specialty metals if the offeror chooses to
use the alternative compliance approach
when providing commercial derivative
military articles to the Government.
DFARS 252.225–7013, Duty-Free
Entry, prescribed at DFARS 225.1101(4),
requires the contractor or an authorized
agent to provide information on
shipping documents and customs forms
regarding those items that are eligible
for duty-free entry.
DFARS 252.225–7018, Photovoltaic
Devices—Certificate, as prescribed at
DFARS 225.7017–4(b), requires offerors
to certify that no photovoltaic devices
with an estimated value exceeding the
micro-purchase threshold will be
utilized in performance of the contract
or to specify the country of origin.
DFARS 252.225–7020, Trade
Agreements Certificate, as prescribed in
225.1101(5) and (5)(i), only requires
listing of nondesignated country end
products. This provision is used in
solicitations for all acquisitions subject
to the World Trade Organization
Government Procurement Agreement.
DFARS 252.225–7021, Alternate II,
Trade Agreements, as prescribed in
DFARS 225.1101(6) and (6)(ii), in order
to comply with a condition of the
waiver authority provided by the United
States Trade Representative to the
Secretary of Defense, requires
contractors from a South Caucasus/
Central or South Asian state to inform
the government of its participation in
the acquisition and also advise their
governments that they generally will not
have such opportunities in the future
unless their governments provide
reciprocal procurement opportunities to
United States products and services and
suppliers of such products and services.
DFARS 252.225–7023, Preference for
Products or Services from Afghanistan,
as prescribed in DFARS 225.7703–4(a),
requires offerors to identify products or
services that are not products or services
from Afghanistan.
DFARS 252.225–7025, Restriction on
Acquisition of Forgings, as prescribed in
DFARS 225.7102–4, also requires
contractor retention of records showing
compliance with the restrictions until 3
years after final payment. The contractor
agrees to make the records available to
the contracting officer upon request.
The contractor may request a waiver in
accordance with DFARS 225.7102–3.
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DFARS 252.225–7032, Waiver of
United Kingdom Levies—Evaluation of
Offers, and 252.225–7033, Waiver of
United Kingdom Levies, as prescribed
in DFARS 225.1101(7) and (8)
respectively, require United Kingdom
offerors and prime contractors, and
offerors and prime contractors with
subcontracts of a dollar value exceeding
$1 million with United Kingdom firms,
to provide certain information necessary
for DoD to obtain a waiver of United
kingdom levies.
DFARS 252.225–7035, Buy
American—Free Trade Agreements—
Balance of Payments Program
Certificate, as prescribed in 225.1101(9)
and (9)(i), requires separate listing of
qualifying country (except Canada),
FTA country, or other foreign end
products. Alternate I, as prescribed in
225.1101(9) and (9)(ii), requires listing
of Canadian end products, rather than
FTA country end products, in
solicitations between $25,000 and the
FTA threshold. The Buy American
statute no longer applies to acquisitions
of commercial information technology.
DFARS 252.225–7046, Exports of
Approved Community Members in
Response to the Solicitation, as
prescribed at DFARS 225.7902–5(a),
requires a representation whether
exports or transfers of qualifying
defense articles were made in preparing
the response to the solicitation. If yes,
the offeror represents that such exports
or transfers complied with the
requirements of the provision.
Comments and recommendations on
the proposed information collection
should be sent to Ms. Jasmeet Seehra,
DoD Desk Officer, at Oira_submission@
omb.eop.gov. Please identify the
proposed information collection by DoD
Desk Officer and the Docket ID number
and title of the information collection.
You may also submit comments,
identified by docket number and title,
by the following method: Federal
eRulemaking Portal: https://
www.regulations.gov. Follow the
instructions for submitting comments.
DoD Clearance Officer: Ms. Angela
James. Requests for copies of the
information collection proposal should
be sent to Ms. James at whs.mcalex.esd.mbx.dd-dod-informationcollections@mail.mil.
Jennifer Lee Hawes,
Regulatory Control Officer, Defense
Acquisition Regulations System.
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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Defense Acquisition Regulations
System
[Docket Number DARS–2020–0013; OMB
Control Number 0704–0253]
Information Collection Requirement;
Defense Federal Acquisition
Regulation Supplement;
Subcontracting Policies and
Procedures; Comment Request
Defense Acquisition
Regulations System, Department of
Defense (DoD).
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
The Defense Acquisition
Regulations System has submitted to
OMB for clearance, the following
proposed revision and extension of a
collection of information under the
provisions of the Paperwork Reduction
Act.
DATES: DoD will consider all comments
received by June 29, 2020.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title and OMB Number:
Subcontracting Policies and
Procedures—DoD FAR Supplement Part
244; OMB Control Number 0704–0253.
Type of Request: Revision.
Affected Public: Businesses or other
for-profit and not-for-profit institutions.
Respondent’s Obligation: Required to
obtain or retain benefits.
Respondents: 22.
Responses per Respondent: 2.
Annual Responses: 44.
Hours per Response: 8.
Estimated Hours: 372.
Reporting Frequency: On occasion.
Needs and Uses: Administrative
contracting officers use this information
in making decisions to approve or
disapprove a contractors purchasing
system. The disapproval of a
contractor’s purchasing system would
necessitate Government consent to
individual subcontracts and possibly
prompt a financial withhold or other
Government rights and remedies.
DFARS 244.305, entitled Granting,
Withholding, or Withdrawing Approval,
provides policy guidance for
administrative contracting officers to
determine the acceptability of the
contractor’s purchasing system and
approve or disprove the system, at the
completion of the in-plant portion of a
contractor purchasing system review,
and to pursue correction of any
deficiencies with the contractor. DFARS
clause 252.244–7001, Contractor
Purchasing System Administration,
requires the contractor to respond
within 30 days to a written initial
determination from the contracting
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officer that identifies significant
deficiencies in the contractor’s
purchasing system. The contracting
officer will evaluate the contractor’s
response to this initial determination
and notify the contractor in writing of
any remaining significant deficiencies,
the adequacy of any proposed or
completed corrective action and system
disapproval if the contracting officer
determines that one or more significant
deficiencies remain. If the contractor
receives the contracting officer’s final
determination of significant
deficiencies, the contractor has 45 days
to either correct the significant
deficiencies or submit an acceptable
corrective action plan.
Comments and recommendations on
the proposed information collection
should be sent to Ms. Jasmeet Seehra,
DoD Desk Officer, at Oira_submission@
omb.eop.gov. Please identify the
proposed information collection by DoD
Desk Officer and the Docket ID number
and title of the information collection.
You may also submit comments,
identified by docket number and title,
by the following method: Federal
eRulemaking Portal: https://
www.regulations.gov. Follow the
instructions for submitting comments.
DoD Clearance Officer: Ms. Angela
James. Requests for copies of the
information collection proposal should
be sent to Ms. James at whs.mcalex.esd.mbx.dd-dod-informationcollections@mail.mil.
Jennifer Lee Hawes,
Regulatory Control Officer, Defense
Acquisition Regulations System.
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ACTION:
The DoD is publishing this
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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Defense Acquisition Regulations System
[Docket Number DARS-2020-0005; OMB Control Number 0704-0229]
Information Collection Requirement; Defense Federal Acquisition
Regulation Supplement (DFARS); Foreign Acquisition; Submission for OMB
Review; Comment Request
AGENCY: Defense Acquisition Regulations System, Department of Defense
(DoD).
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The Defense Acquisition Regulations System has submitted to
OMB for clearance, the following proposed revision and extension of a
collection of information under the provisions of the Paperwork
Reduction Act.
DATES: Consideration will be given to all comments received by June 29,
2020.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title, Associated Form, and OMB Number: Defense Federal Acquisition
Regulation Supplement (DFARS) Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation
Supplement Part 225, Foreign Acquisition, and Related Clauses at
252.225; DD Form 2139; OMB Control Number 0704-0229.
Affected Public: Businesses or other for-profit and not-for-profit
institutions.
Number of Respondents: 39,221.
Responses per Respondent: 10 (approximately).
Annual Responses: 382,876.
Average Burden per Response: .28 hours (approximately).
Annual Burden Hours: 106,730 (106,995 reporting hours and
recordkeeping hours).
Reporting Frequency: On occasion.
Needs and Uses: DoD needs this information to ensure compliance
with restrictions on the acquisition of foreign products imposed by
statute or policy to protect the industrial base; to ensure compliance
with U.S. trade agreements and memoranda of understanding that promote
reciprocal trade with the U.S. allies; and to prepare reports for
submission to the Department of Commerce on the Balance of Payments
Program. This information collection includes requirements related to
foreign acquisition in DFARS Part 225, Foreign Acquisition, and the
related clauses at DFARS 252.225 as follows:
DFARS 252.225-7000, Buy American--Balance of Payments Program
Certificate, as prescribed in 225.1101(1) and (1)(i), requires the
offeror to identify in its proposal supplies that do not meet the
definition of domestic end product, separately listing qualifying
country and other foreign end products. The Buy American statute does
not apply to acquisitions of commercial information technology.
DFARS 252.225-7003, Report of Intended Performance Outside the
United States and Canada--Submission with Offer, and 252.225-7004,
Report of Intended Performance Outside the United States and Canada--
Submission after Award, as prescribed in DFARS 225.7204(a) and (b)
respectively, require offerors and contractors to submit a Report of
Contract Performance Outside the United States for subcontracts to be
performed outside the United States. The reporting threshold is
$750,000 for contracts that exceed $15 million. The contractor may
submit the report on DD Form 2139, Report of Contract Performance
Outside the United States, or a computer-generated report that contains
all information required by DD Form 2139.
DFARS 252.225-7005, Identification of Expenditures in the United
States, as prescribed in DFARS 225.1103(1), requires contractors
incorporated or located in the United States to identify, on each
request for payment under contracts for supplies to be used, or for
construction or services to be performed, outside the United States,
that part of the requested payment representing estimated expenditures
in the United States.
DFARS 252.225-7010, Commercial Derivative Military Article--
Specialty Metals Compliance Certificate, as prescribed at DFARS
225.7003-5(b), requires the offeror to certify that it will take
certain actions with regard to specialty metals if the offeror chooses
to use the alternative compliance approach when providing commercial
derivative military articles to the Government.
DFARS 252.225-7013, Duty-Free Entry, prescribed at DFARS
225.1101(4), requires the contractor or an authorized agent to provide
information on shipping documents and customs forms regarding those
items that are eligible for duty-free entry.
DFARS 252.225-7018, Photovoltaic Devices--Certificate, as
prescribed at DFARS 225.7017-4(b), requires offerors to certify that no
photovoltaic devices with an estimated value exceeding the micro-
purchase threshold will be utilized in performance of the contract or
to specify the country of origin.
DFARS 252.225-7020, Trade Agreements Certificate, as prescribed in
225.1101(5) and (5)(i), only requires listing of nondesignated country
end products. This provision is used in solicitations for all
acquisitions subject to the World Trade Organization Government
Procurement Agreement.
DFARS 252.225-7021, Alternate II, Trade Agreements, as prescribed
in DFARS 225.1101(6) and (6)(ii), in order to comply with a condition
of the waiver authority provided by the United States Trade
Representative to the Secretary of Defense, requires contractors from a
South Caucasus/Central or South Asian state to inform the government of
its participation in the acquisition and also advise their governments
that they generally will not have such opportunities in the future
unless their governments provide reciprocal procurement opportunities
to United States products and services and suppliers of such products
and services.
DFARS 252.225-7023, Preference for Products or Services from
Afghanistan, as prescribed in DFARS 225.7703-4(a), requires offerors to
identify products or services that are not products or services from
Afghanistan.
DFARS 252.225-7025, Restriction on Acquisition of Forgings, as
prescribed in DFARS 225.7102-4, also requires contractor retention of
records showing compliance with the restrictions until 3 years after
final payment. The contractor agrees to make the records available to
the contracting officer upon request. The contractor may request a
waiver in accordance with DFARS 225.7102-3.
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DFARS 252.225-7032, Waiver of United Kingdom Levies--Evaluation of
Offers, and 252.225-7033, Waiver of United Kingdom Levies, as
prescribed in DFARS 225.1101(7) and (8) respectively, require United
Kingdom offerors and prime contractors, and offerors and prime
contractors with subcontracts of a dollar value exceeding $1 million
with United Kingdom firms, to provide certain information necessary for
DoD to obtain a waiver of United kingdom levies.
DFARS 252.225-7035, Buy American--Free Trade Agreements--Balance of
Payments Program Certificate, as prescribed in 225.1101(9) and (9)(i),
requires separate listing of qualifying country (except Canada), FTA
country, or other foreign end products. Alternate I, as prescribed in
225.1101(9) and (9)(ii), requires listing of Canadian end products,
rather than FTA country end products, in solicitations between $25,000
and the FTA threshold. The Buy American statute no longer applies to
acquisitions of commercial information technology.
DFARS 252.225-7046, Exports of Approved Community Members in
Response to the Solicitation, as prescribed at DFARS 225.7902-5(a),
requires a representation whether exports or transfers of qualifying
defense articles were made in preparing the response to the
solicitation. If yes, the offeror represents that such exports or
transfers complied with the requirements of the provision.
Comments and recommendations on the proposed information collection
should be sent to Ms. Jasmeet Seehra, DoD Desk Officer, at
[email protected]. Please identify the proposed information
collection by DoD Desk Officer and the Docket ID number and title of
the information collection.
You may also submit comments, identified by docket number and
title, by the following method: Federal eRulemaking Portal: https://www.regulations.gov. Follow the instructions for submitting comments.
DoD Clearance Officer: Ms. Angela James. Requests for copies of the
information collection proposal should be sent to Ms. James at [email protected].
Jennifer Lee Hawes,
Regulatory Control Officer, Defense Acquisition Regulations System.
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