{"data":{"id":"us/48-cfr-9.505-1","jurisdiction":"us","citation":"48 CFR 9.505-1","heading":"9.505-1 Providing systems engineering and technical direction.","body":"(a) A contractor that provides systems engineering and technical direction for a system but does not have overall contractual responsibility for its development, its integration, assembly, and checkout, or its production shall not—\n(1) Be awarded a contract to supply the system or any of its major components; or\n(2) Be a subcontractor or consultant to a supplier of the system or any of its major components.\n(b) Systems engineering includes a combination of substantially all of the following activities: determining specifications, identifying and resolving interface problems, developing test requirements, evaluating test data, and supervising design. Technical direction includes a combination of substantially all of the following activities: developing work statements, determining parameters, directing other contractors' operations, and resolving technical controversies. In performing these activities, a contractor occupies a highly influential and responsible position in determining a system's basic concepts and supervising their execution by other contractors. Therefore this contractor should not be in a position to make decisions favoring its own products or capabilities.","path":["Title 48—Federal Acquisition Regulations System","CHAPTER 1—FEDERAL ACQUISITION REGULATION","SUBCHAPTER B—ACQUISITION PLANNING","PART 9—CONTRACTOR QUALIFICATIONS","Subpart 9.5—Organizational and Consultant Conflicts of Interest"],"source_url":"https://www.ecfr.gov/api/versioner/v1/full/2026-08-25/title-48.xml","current_through":"2026-08-25","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-27T02:26:29Z","sha256":"0c1889fe472960665f328537488d98c8c524bd4a1969044d3d430a13b677414f","source_id":"us-cfr","stale":true,"prev":"us/48-cfr-9.505","next":"us/48-cfr-9.505-2"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}