---
kind: "section"
citation: "48 C.F.R. § 212.7004"
title: "48"
number: "212.7004"
heading: "Procedures."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/48/212.7004"
---

# §212.7004. Procedures.


This section prescribes procedures for the use of a CSO.

- (a) **The CSO shall—**
  - (1) Describe the agency's interest for an individual program requirement or for broadly defined areas of interest covering the full range of the agency's requirements;
  - (2) Specify the technical data required that may be necessary to meet DoD's minimum requirements (see 227.7102 and 227.7202);
  - (3) **Describe the evaluation factors for selecting proposals to include—**
    - (i) Technical and importance to agency programs as the primary evaluation factors;
    - (ii) Price to the extent appropriate, but at a minimum to determine that the price is fair and reasonable; and
    - (iii) Relative importance of the factors, and the method of evaluation;
  - (4) Specify the period of time during which proposals submitted in response to the CSO will be accepted; and
  - (5) **Contain instructions for the preparation and submission of proposals.**
- (b) The contracting officer shall publicize the CSO through the Governmentwide point of entry and, if authorized pursuant to FAR [subpart 5.5](/cfr/48/subpart5.5.md), may also publish a notice regarding the CSO in noted scientific, technical, or engineering periodicals. The contracting officer shall publish the notice at least annually.
- (c) Proposals received in response to the CSO shall be evaluated in accordance with evaluation factors specified therein through a scientific, technological, or other subject-matter expert peer review process. Written evaluation reports on individual proposals are required, but proposals need not be evaluated against each other since they are not submitted in response to a common performance work statement or statement of work.
- (d) Synopsis of proposed contract actions under FAR [subpart 5.2](/cfr/48/subpart5.2.md) of individual contract actions based upon proposals received in response to the CSO is not required. The notice published pursuant to [paragraph (b)](#b) of this section fulfills the synopsis requirement.
- (e) When a small business concern would otherwise be selected for award but is considered not responsible, follow the Small Business Administration Certificate of Competency procedure (see FAR [subpart 19.6](/cfr/48/subpart19.6.md)).
- (f) The contracting officer shall document the decision that the requirements of this subpart have been met and include the documentation in the contract file.

## Notes

### Source

Source: 88 FR 55939, Aug. 17, 2023, unless otherwise noted.

### Authority

Authority: 41 U.S.C. 1303 and 48 CFR chapter 1.

### Source

Source: 60 FR 61595, Nov. 30, 1995, unless otherwise noted.