[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 48, Volume 1]

[Revised as of October 1, 2005]

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-



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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)(C), 

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'' 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.



[48 FR 42113, Sept. 19, 1983, as amended at 43586, July 27, 2005]