Buy American for Supplies

Four pieces on FAR subparts 25.1 and 25.4 and DFARS 252.225-7001: the domestic content test, the exceptions, cost reasonableness, and trade agreements.

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Four pieces in this topic

What makes an end product domestic

Scope of the supply rule, the two-part test, iron and steel products, small business, how the Defense clause counts components, and COTS.

When Buy American does not apply to supplies

Five exceptions, public interest, class and individual nonavailability, the no-determination case, cost, resale, IT and the nonavailable list.

Pricing a domestic offer against a foreign one

When cost reasonableness arises, the 20 and 30 percent factors, the 55 percent fallback, critical items, rising thresholds and limits.

How trade agreements affect federal purchases

The waiver for eligible products, exclusions, excluded services, thresholds, leases, options and splitting, the purchase restriction and procedures.

Key terms in this topic

Domestic end product Content threshold Iron and steel test Qualifying country COTS item Public interest exception Class nonavailability Individual nonavailability Significant component Commissary resale Evaluation factor 20 and 30 percent 55 percent fallback Critical item Alternate content test Eligible product Defense exclusion WTO GPA threshold No splitting Purchase restriction