---
kind: "section"
citation: "48 C.F.R. § 52.248-1"
title: "48"
number: "52.248-1"
heading: "Value Engineering."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/48/52.248-1"
---

# §52.248-1. Value Engineering.


As prescribed in 48.201, insert the following clause:

Alternate I (APR 1984). If the contracting officer selects a mandatory value engineering program requirement, substitute the following paragraph (a) for paragraph (a) of the basic clause:

Alternate II (JAN 2017). If the contracting officer selects both a value engineering incentive and mandatory value engineering program requirement, substitute the following paragraph (a) for paragraph (a) of the basic clause:

Alternate III (APR 1984). When the head of the contracting activity determines that the cost of calculating and tracking collateral savings will exceed the benefits to be derived in a contract calling for a value engineering incentive, delete paragraph (j) from the basic clause and redesignate the remaining paragraphs accordingly.


## Notes

### Amendments

[48 FR 42478, Sept. 19, 1983, as amended at 54 FR 5059, Jan. 31, 1989; 64 FR 51848, Sept. 24, 1999; 64 FR 72449, Dec. 27, 1999; 75 FR 53135, Aug. 30, 2010; 82 FR 4716, Jan. 13, 2017; 85 FR 27097, May 6, 2020]

### Authority

Authority: 41 U.S.C. 1121(b); 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 42478, Sept. 19, 1983, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[48 FR 42478, Sept. 19, 1983, as amended at 54 FR 5059, Jan. 31, 1989; 64 FR 51848, Sept. 24, 1999; 64 FR 72449, Dec. 27, 1999; 75 FR 53135, Aug. 30, 2010; 82 FR 4716, Jan. 13, 2017; 85 FR 27097, May 6, 2020]