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FAR 13.306 SF 44, Purchase Order—Invoice—Voucher.

The codified text (eCFR, as of 2026-10-02). Under the Revolutionary FAR Overhaul ↗, agencies follow class deviations with new text for many parts while the formal rules go through the Federal Register: check the solicitation and your contract's clauses, which rule.

In plain English

This section describes the SF 44, a pocket-sized multipurpose form used for on-the-spot, over-the-counter purchases of supplies and nonpersonal services away from the purchasing office or at isolated activities. It can also serve as a receiving report, invoice, and public voucher. Contractors should know it is only allowed when specific conditions are met, including a purchase amount at or below the micro-purchase threshold (with exceptions for urgency or contingency operations).

Applies to: Purchases of supplies and nonpersonal services made on-the-spot or at isolated activities

What it requires

  • Use the form only if the purchase amount is at or below the micro-purchase threshold, except for purchases under unusual and compelling urgency or in support of contingency operations
  • Use the form only if the supplies or services are immediately available
  • Use the form only if one delivery and one payment will be made
  • Use the form only if its use is determined to be more economical and efficient than other simplified acquisition procedures

Key terms: SF 44 · Purchase Order—Invoice—Voucher · micro-purchase threshold · contingency operations · simplified acquisition procedures

Written by AI from this section's text. A guide, not legal advice: the text below rules.

The text

The SF 44, Purchase Order—Invoice—Voucher, is a multipurpose pocket-size purchase order form designed primarily for on-the-spot, over-the-counter purchases of supplies and nonpersonal services while away from the purchasing office or at isolated activities. It also can be used as a receiving report, invoice, and public voucher.

(a) This form may be used if all of the following conditions are satisfied:

(1) The amount of the purchase is at or below the micro-purchase threshold, except for purchases made under unusual and compelling urgency or in support of contingency operations. Agencies may establish higher dollar limitations for specific activities or items;

(2) The supplies or services are immediately available;

(3) One delivery and one payment will be made; and

(4) Its use is determined to be more economical and efficient than use of other simplified acquisition procedures.

(b) General procedural instructions governing the form's use are printed on the form and on the inside front cover of each book of forms.

(c) Since there is, for all practical purposes, simultaneous placement of the order and delivery of the items, clauses are not required for purchases using this form.

(d) Agencies shall provide adequate safeguards regarding the control of forms and accounting for purchases.

Sections that refer to it

  • 12.102 Applicability.
  • 13.307 Forms.
  • 18.201 Contingency operation.
  • 53.213 Simplified acquisition procedures (SF's 18, 30, 44, 1165, and 1449, and OF's 336, 347, and 348).

← 13.305-4 Procedures. · 13.307 Forms. →

Rule changes for FAR Part 13

Source: eCFR, 48 CFR chapters 1 and 2 (GPO GovInfo bulk data) ↗. Plain words for the terms: glossary.

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