[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 48, Volume 1]
[Revised as of October 1, 2003]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 48CFR4.1102]

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            TITLE 48--FEDERAL ACQUISITION REGULATIONS SYSTEM
 
                CHAPTER 1--FEDERAL ACQUISITION REGULATION
 
PART 4_ADMINISTRATIVE MATTERS--Table of Contents
 
              Subpart 4.11_Central Contractor Registration
 
Sec.  4.1102  Policy.

    (a) Prospective contractors shall be registered in the CCR database 
prior to award of a contract or agreement, except for--
    (1) Purchases that use a Governmentwide commercial purchase card as 
both the purchasing and payment mechanism, as opposed to using the 
purchase card only as a payment method;
    (2) Classified contracts (see 2.101) when registration in the CCR 
database, or use of CCR data, could compromise the safeguarding of 
classified information or national security;
    (3) Contracts awarded by--
    (i) Deployed contracting officers in the course of military 
operations, including, but not limited to, contingency operations as 
defined in 10 U.S.C. 101(a)(13) or humanitarian or peacekeeping 
operations as defined in 10 U.S.C. 2302(7); or
    (ii) Contracting officers in the conduct of emergency operations, 
such as responses to natural or environmental disasters or national or 
civil emergencies, e.g., Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and 
Emergency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5121);
    (4) Contracts to support unusual or compelling needs (see 6.302-2);
    (5) Awards made to foreign vendors for work performed outside the 
United States, if it is impractical to obtain CCR registration; and
    (6) Micro-purchases that do not use the electronic funds transfer 
(EFT) method for payment and are not required to be reported (see 
subpart 4.6).
    (b) If practical, the contracting officer shall modify the contract 
or agreement awarded under paragraph (a)(3) or (a)(4) of this section to 
require CCR registration.
    (c)(1)(i) If a contractor has legally changed its business name, 
``doing business as'' name, or division name (whichever is shown on the 
contract), or has transferred the assets used in performing the 
contract, but has not completed the necessary requirements regarding 
novation and change-of-name agreements in Subpart 42.12, the contractor 
shall provide the responsible contracting officer a minimum of one 
business day's written notification of its intention to change the name 
in the CCR database; comply with the requirements of Subpart 42.12; and 
agree in writing to the timeline and procedures specified by the 
responsible contracting officer. The contractor must provide with the 
notification sufficient documentation to support the legally changed 
name.
    (ii) If the contractor fails to comply with the requirements of 
paragraph (g)(1)(i) of the clause at 52.204-7, Central Contractor 
Registration, or fails to perform the agreement at 52.204-7(g)(1)(i)(3), 
and, in the absence of a properly executed novation or change-of-name 
agreement, the CCR information that shows the contractor to be other 
than the contractor indicated in the contract will be considered to be 
incorrect information within the meaning of the ``Suspension of 
Payment''

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paragraph of the EFT clause of the contract.
    (2) The contractor shall not change the name or address for 
electronic funds transfer payments (EFT) or manual payments, as 
appropriate, in the CCR record to reflect an assignee for the purpose of 
assignment of claims (see subpart 32.8, Assignment of Claims).
    (3) Assignees shall be separately registered in the CCR database. 
Information provided to the contractor's CCR record that indicates 
payments, including those made by EFT, to an ultimate recipient other 
than that contractor will be considered to be incorrect information 
within the meaning of the ``Suspension of payment'' paragraph of the EFT 
clause of the contract.