[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 48, Volume 1]
[Revised as of October 1, 2002]
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[CITE: 48CFR45]

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            TITLE 48--FEDERAL ACQUISITION REGULATIONS SYSTEM
 
                CHAPTER 1--FEDERAL ACQUISITION REGULATION
 
PART 45--GOVERNMENT PROPERTY--Table of Contents
 
                   Subpart 45.2--Competitive Advantage
 
45.205  Solicitation requirements.

    (a) When Government production and research property (see 45.301) is 
offered for use in a competitive acquisition, solicitations will 
ordinarily require the contractor to assume all costs related to making 
the property available for use (such as payment of all transportation or 
rehabilitation costs).
    (b) The solicitation shall describe the evaluation procedures to be 
followed, including rental charges or equivalents (see 45.202) and other 
costs or savings to be evaluated (see 45.202-3), and shall require all 
offerors to submit with their offers the following information:
    (1) A list or description of all Government production and research 
property that the offeror or its subcontractors propose to use on a 
rent-free basis. The list shall include property offered for use in the 
solicitation, as well as property already in possession of the offeror 
and its subcontractors under other contracts.
    (2) Identification of the facilities contract or other instrument 
under which property already in possession of the offeror and its 
subcontractors is held, and the written permission for its use from the 
contracting officer having cognizance of the property.
    (3) The dates during which the property will be available for use 
(including the first, last, and all intervening months) and, for any 
property that will be used concurrently in performing two or more 
contracts, the amounts of the respective uses in sufficient detail to 
support proration of the rent.
    (4) The amount of rent that would otherwise be charged, computed in 
accordance with 45.403.
    (c) Solicitations shall provide that using Government production and 
research property (other than as described and permitted in the 
solicitation (see paragraph (b) above)) will not be authorized under the 
contract unless such use is approved in writing by the contracting 
officer cognizant of the property, and either rent calculated in 
accordance with the clause at 52.245-9, Use and Charges, is charged, or 
the contract price is reduced by an equivalent amount. (See 45.203 for 
postaward requests for special tooling and special test equipment and 
45.204(c) for solicitation requirements for special tooling and special 
test equipment with residual value.)