Contracting Cone
FAR Based Strategies
Federal Supply Schedules – FAR 8.4
Commercial Items – FAR 12
Simplified Acquisitions – FAR 13
Contracting by Negotiation – FAR 15
IDIQ – FAR 16.5
Letter Contract – FAR 16.603
Agreements – FAR 16.7
Small Business – FAR 19
BAA – FAR 35.016
SBIR/STTR
Commercial Solutions Opening (CSO)
Non-FAR Based Strategies
Other Transactions (OT)
Procurement for Experiments (2373)
R&D Agreements
Cooperative R&D Agreement (CRADA)
Partnership Intermediary Agreement (PIA)
Technology Investment Agreement (TIA)
Agreements (FAR Part 16.7)
Agreements are written instruments of understanding containing contract clauses (not an actual contract), applying to future contracts. They may contemplate separate future contracts; descriptions of supplies or services to be provided; and/or methods for pricing, issuing, and delivering future orders. The two main agreement strategies are: