48 C.F.R. § 12.103 — Commercially available off-the-shelf (COTS) items.
Federal Acquisition Regulations System 1 2023-10-01 2023-10-01 false Commercially available off-the-shelf (COTS) items. 12.103 Section 12.103 Federal Acquisition Regulations System FEDERAL ACQUISITION REGULATION ACQUISITION PLANNING ACQUISITION OF COMMERCIAL PRODUCTS AND COMMERCIAL SERVICES Acquisition of Commercial Products and Commercial Services 12.103 Commercially available off-the-shelf (COTS) items. Commercially available off-the-shelf (COTS) items are defined in 2.101. Unless indicated otherwise, all of the policies that apply to commercial products also apply to COTS items. Section 12.505 lists the laws that are not applicable to COTS items (in addition to 12.503 and 12.504). [79 FR 24200, Apr. 29, 2014, as amended at 80 FR 4987, Jan. 29, 2015; 86 FR 61022, Nov. 4, 2021]