Regulations last checked for updates: Mar 13, 2025

Title 48 - Federal Acquisition Regulations System last revised: Oct 18, 2025
514.270-1 - 514.270-1 Definition.

Aggregate award means an arrangement whereby two or more separately-priced line items are combined for award to that bidder whose bid will result in the lowest overall cost to the Government for the line items as a group. The individual price for each item does not have to be the lowest bid received. (See also the definition of a “line item” in FAR FAR 2.101.)

[64 FR 37211, July 9, 1999, as amended at 86 FR 68442, Dec. 2, 2021]
authority: 40 U.S.C. 121(c)
cite as: 48 CFR 514.270-1