As prescribed in 25.1102(e), insert the following clause:
Required Use of American Iron, Steel, and Manufactured Goods-Buy American Statute-Construction Materials (JAN 2021)
Component means an article, material, or supply incorporated directly into a construction material.
Construction material means an article, material, or supply brought to the construction site by the Contractor or a subcontractor for incorporation into the building or work. The term also includes an item brought to the site preassembled from articles, materials, or supplies. However, emergency life safety systems, such as emergency lighting, fire alarm, and audio evacuation systems, that are discrete systems incorporated into a public building or work and that are produced as complete systems, are evaluated as a single and distinct construction material regardless of when or how the individual parts or components of those systems are delivered to the construction site.
Domestic construction material means the following-
Foreign construction material means a construction material other than a domestic construction material.
Manufactured construction material means any construction material that is not unmanufactured construction material.
Steel means an alloy that includes at least 50 percent iron, between 0.02 and 2 percent carbon, and may include other elements.
United States means the 50 States, the District of Columbia, and outlying areas.
Unmanufactured construction material means raw material brought to the construction site for incorporation into the building or work that has not been-
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[Contracting Officer to list applicable excepted materials or indicate "none"]
Foreign and Domestic Construction Materials Cost Comparison
Construction material description | Unit of measure | Quantity | Cost (dollars) * |
Item 1: | |||
Foreign construction material | ____ | ____ | ____ |
Domestic construction material | ____ | ____ | ____ |
Item 2 | |||
Foreign construction material | ____ | ____ | ____ |
Domestic construction material | ____ | ____ | ____ |
[List name, address, telephone number, and contact for suppliers surveyed. Attach copy of response; if oral, attach summary.] [Include other applicable supporting information.]
[*Include all delivery costs to the construction site.]
(End of clause)
48 C.F.R. §§52.225-21