---
kind: "section"
citation: "48 C.F.R. § 873.110"
title: "48"
number: "873.110"
heading: "Solicitation provisions."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/48/873.110"
---

# §873.110. Solicitation provisions.

- (a) As required in 873.109(d), contracting officers shall set a reasonable time for receipt of quotations or proposals and shall insert the provision at 852.273-70, Late Offers, in all RFQs and RFPs exceeding the micro-purchase threshold. However, this provision shall not be used if the provision 852.273-71, Alternative Negotiation Techniques, is to be used. ([38 U.S.C. 8153](/usc/38/8153.md))
- (b) The contracting officer shall insert a provision in RFQs and solicitations, substantially the same as the provision at 852.273-71, Alternative Negotiation Techniques, when either of the alternative negotiation techniques described in 873.111(d)(1) will be used. ([38 U.S.C. 8153](/usc/38/8153.md))
- (c) The contracting officer shall insert the provision at 852.273-72, Alternative Evaluation, in lieu of FAR provision 52.212-2, Evaluation—Commercial Items, when the alternative negotiation technique described in 873.111(d)(1)(ii) will be used. ([38 U.S.C. 8153](/usc/38/8153.md))
- (d) When evaluation information, as described in 873.112, is to be used to select a contractor under a RFQ or RFP for health-care resources consisting of commercial services or the use of medical equipment or space, the contracting officer may insert the provision at 852.273-73, Evaluation—Health-Care Resources, in the RFQ or RFP in lieu of FAR provision 52.212-2. ([38 U.S.C. 8153](/usc/38/8153.md))
- (e) As provided at 873.113(f), if award may be made without exchange with offerors, the contracting officer shall include the provision at 852.273-74, Award Without Exchanges, in the RFQ or RFP. ([38 U.S.C. 8153](/usc/38/8153.md))
- (f) The contracting officer shall insert the FAR clause at 52.207-3, Right of First Refusal of Employment, in all RFQs, solicitations, and contracts issued under the authority of [38 U.S.C. 8151-8153](/usc/38/8151-8153.md) which may result in a conversion, from in-house performance to contract performance, of work currently being performed by Department of Veterans Affairs employees. ([38 U.S.C. 8153](/usc/38/8153.md))

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 38 U.S.C. 8127-8128; 38 U.S.C. 8151-8153; 40 U.S.C. 121(c); 41 U.S.C. 1121(c)(3); 41 U.S.C. 1303; 41 U.S.C. 1702; and 48 CFR 1.301 through 1.304.

### Source

Source: 86 FR 54118, Sept. 30, 2021, unless otherwise noted.