48 CFR § 36.609-2 - 36.609-2 Redesign responsibility for design errors or deficiencies.
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identifier: "/us/cfr/t48/s36.609-2"
source: "ecfr"
legal_status: "authoritative_unofficial"
title: "48 CFR § 36.609-2 - 36.609-2 Redesign responsibility for design errors or deficiencies."
title_number: 48
title_name: "Federal Acquisition Regulations System"
section_number: "36.609-2"
section_name: "36.609-2 Redesign responsibility for design errors or deficiencies."
chapter_number: 1
chapter_name: "FEDERAL ACQUISITION REGULATION"
subchapter_number: "F"
subchapter_name: "SPECIAL CATEGORIES OF CONTRACTING"
part_number: "36"
part_name: "CONSTRUCTION AND ARCHITECT-ENGINEER CONTRACTS"
positive_law: false
currency: "2026-03-24"
last_updated: "2026-03-24"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
authority: "41 U.S.C. 1121(b); 40 U.S.C. 121(c); 10 U.S.C. chapter 4 and 10 U.S.C. chapter 137 legacy provisions (see 10 U.S.C. 3016); and 51 U.S.C. 20113."
regulatory_source: "48 FR 42356, Sept. 19, 1983, unless otherwise noted."
cfr_part: "36"
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# 36.609-2 36.609-2 Redesign responsibility for design errors or deficiencies.
(a) Under architect-engineer contracts, contractors shall be required to make necessary corrections at no cost to the Government when the designs, drawings, specifications, or other items or services furnished contain any errors, deficiencies, or inadequacies. If, in a given situation, the Government does not require a firm to correct such errors, the contracting officer shall include a written statement of the reasons for that decision in the contract file.
(b) The contracting officer shall insert the clause at 52.236-23, Responsibility of the Architect-Engineer Contractor, in fixed-price architect-engineer contracts.
[48 FR 42356, Sept. 19, 1983, as amended at 50 FR 26903, June 28, 1985]