47.305 Solicitation provisions, contract clauses, and transportation factors
Source: FAR 47.305 on acquisition.gov
Contracting officers must coordinate with transportation offices and consider transportation cost and efficiency factors throughout the acquisition process for supply contracts.
Overview
FAR 47.305 outlines the requirements for incorporating transportation considerations into the solicitation and contracting process for supply contracts. Contracting officers are required to coordinate with their agency's transportation office throughout the acquisition lifecycle—planning, solicitation, and award—to ensure transportation factors are properly addressed. The regulation also emphasizes the importance of scheduling deliveries to achieve cost savings and reduce energy consumption by carriers. This section serves as an introduction to a series of detailed subsections (47.305-1 through 47.305-17) that cover specific transportation-related solicitation provisions, contract clauses, and logistical factors such as f.o.b. terms, shipment destinations, consolidation of shipments, packing, and delivery options.
(a) The contracting officer shall coordinate transportation factors with the transportation office during the planning, solicitation, and award phases of the acquisition process (see 47.105).
(b) To the extent feasible, activities shall schedule deliveries to effect savings in transportation costs, and concomitant reductions in energy consumption by carriers (see 47.305-7 and 47.305-8 for specific possibilities).