---
kind: "section"
citation: "48 C.F.R. § 52.249-14"
title: "48"
number: "52.249-14"
heading: "Excusable Delays."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/48/52.249-14"
---

# §52.249-14. Excusable Delays.


As prescribed in 49.505(b), insert the following clause in solicitations and contracts for supplies, services, construction, and research and development on a fee basis whenever a cost-reimbursement contract is contemplated. Also insert the clause in time-and-material contracts, and labor-hour contracts. When used in construction contracts, substitute the words “completion time” for “delivery schedule” in the last sentence of the clause.


## Notes

### Amendments

[48 FR 42478, Sept. 19, 1983, as amended at 72 FR 27394, May 15, 2007]

### 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 72 FR 27394, May 15, 2007]