52.214-16 Minimum Bid Acceptance Period.
Minimum Bid Acceptance Period (Apr 1984)
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(a)“Acceptance period,” as used in this provision, means the number of calendar days available to the Government for awarding a contract from the date specified in this solicitation for receipt of bids.
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(b)This provision supersedes any language pertaining to the acceptance period that may appear elsewhere in this solicitation.
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(c)The Government requires a minimum acceptance period of calendar days [the Contracting Officer shall insert the number of days].
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(d)In the space provided immediately below, bidders may specify a longer acceptance period than the Government’s minimum requirement.
The bidder allows the following acceptance period: calendar days.
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(e)A bid allowing less than the Government’s minimum acceptance period will be rejected.
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(f)The bidder agrees to execute all that it has undertaken to do, in compliance with its bid, if that bid is accepted in writing within-
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(1)The acceptance period stated in paragraph (c) of this clause; or
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(2)Any longer acceptance period stated in paragraph (d) of this clause.
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(End of provision)