# 52.217-3 Evaluation Exclusive of Options.
Type: Provision
Prescribed in: 17.208(a)
Current version date: APR 1984

## Prescription and Applicability

### FAR Prescription, 17.208(a)

(a) Insert a provision substantially the same as the provision at 52.217-3, Evaluation Exclusive of Options, in solicitations when the solicitation includes an option clause and does not include one of the provisions prescribed in paragraph (b) or (c) of this section.

### DFARS Supplementary Guidance, 217.208

Sealed bid solicitations shall not include provisions for evaluations of options unless the contracting officer determines that there is a reasonable likelihood that the options will be exercised (10 U.S.C. 3206(e)). This limitation also applies to sealed bid solicitations for the contracts excluded by FAR 17.200.

## Current Text

52.217-3 Evaluation Exclusive of Options.

As prescribed in 17.208(a), insert a provision substantially the same as the following in solicitations when the solicitation includes an option clause and does not include one of the provisions prescribed in 17.208 (b) or (c):

Evaluation Exclusive of Options (APR 1984)

The Government will evaluate offers for award purposes by including only the price for the basic requirement; i.e., options will not be included in the evaluation for award purposes.

(End of provision)

[48 FR 42478, Sept. 19, 1983, as amended at 87 FR 49503, Aug. 10, 2022]

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