This session of the Foundations of the FAR program will cover Parts 3 and 9 of the Federal Acquisition Regulation. Presenter, Daniel Kelly of McCarter & English will cover the policies around improper business practices and personal conflicts of interest. In Part 9, he will cover contractor qualifications including requirements, debarment, team arrangements and organizational conflicts of interest.
Part 3
This part prescribes policies and procedures for avoiding improper business practices and personal conflicts of interest and for dealing with their apparent or actual occurrence.
Part 9
This part prescribes policies, standards, and procedures pertaining to prospective contractors’ responsibility; debarment, suspension, and ineligibility; qualified products; first article testing and approval; contractor team arrangements; defense production pools and research and development pools; and organizational conflicts of interest.