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Micro-purchase threshold — contingency operation
$25,000was $20,000 until 1 Oct 2025
- Citation
- FAR 2.101
- Last moved
- 1 October 2025, from $20,000
- Checked
- 2 November 2026, against the codified FAR and, where it leads the FAR, the statute
- Note
- Outside the United States the figure is higher still. Read the definition, not the desk guide.
Supplies for a contingency operation, purchased inside the United States. At or below what amount may you treat the buy as a micro-purchase?
$25,000 (FAR 2.101), as of 2 November 2026. It was $20,000 until it moved on 1 October 2025.
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Play today’s ThresholdMicro-purchase and simplified acquisition
6 more- Micro-purchase threshold$15,000
- Micro-purchase threshold — defense against certain attacks, outside the United States$40,000
- Simplified acquisition threshold$350,000
- Simplified acquisition threshold — contingency operation$1,000,000
- Simplified acquisition threshold — humanitarian or peacekeeping$650,000
- Simplified procedures for commercial products and services — ceiling$9,000,000