---
kind: "section"
citation: "48 C.F.R. § 46.311"
title: "48"
number: "46.311"
heading: "Higher-level contract quality requirement."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/48/46.311"
---

# §46.311. Higher-level contract quality requirement.

- (a) The contracting officer shall insert the clause at 52.246-11, Higher-Level Contract Quality Requirement, in solicitations and contracts when the inclusion of a higher-level contract quality requirement is necessary (see 46.202-4).
- (b) For each higher-level quality standard, the contracting officer shall fill in the title, number, date, and tailoring (if any).

## Notes

### Amendments

[79 FR 70348, Nov. 25, 2014]

### Authority

Authority: 40 U.S.C. 121(c); 10 U.S.C. chapter 4 and 10 U.S.C. chapter 137 legacy provisions (see 10 U.S.C. 3016); and 51 U.S.C. 20113.

### Source

Source: 48 FR 42415, Sept. 19, 1983, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[79 FR 70348, Nov. 25, 2014]