# 52.215-3 Request for Information or Solicitation for Planning Purposes.
Type: Provision
Prescribed in: 15.209(c)
Current version date: OCT 1997

## Prescription and Applicability

### FAR Prescription, 15.209(c)

(c) When issuing a solicitation for information or planning purposes, the contracting officer shall insert the provision at 52.215-3, Request for Information or Solicitation for Planning Purposes, and clearly mark on the face of the solicitation that it is for information or planning purposes.

### DFARS Supplementary Guidance, 215.209

(a) For source selections when the procurement is $100 million or more, contracting officers should use the provision at FAR 52.215-1, Instructions to Offerors--Competitive Acquisition, with its Alternate I.

## Current Text

52.215-3 Request for Information or Solicitation for Planning Purposes.

As prescribed in 15.209(c), insert the following provision:

Request for Information or Solicitation for Planning Purposes (OCT 1997)

(a) The Government does not intend to award a contract on the basis of this solicitation or to otherwise pay for the information solicited except as an allowable cost under other contracts as provided in subsection 31.205-18, Bid and proposal costs, of the Federal Acquisition Regulation.

(b) Although "proposal" and "offeror" are used in this Request for Information, your response will be treated as information only. It shall not be used as a proposal.

(c) This solicitation is issued for the purpose of: [ state purpose ].

(End of provision)

[62 FR 51261, Sept. 30, 1997]

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