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FAR and DFARS › DFARS Part 204: Administrative and Information Matters › Subpart 204.75

DFARS 204.7503 Procedures.

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 tells contracting officers how to handle CMMC requirements in solicitations and contracts. They must include the required CMMC level in the solicitation and contract documents, and they must verify in SPRS that an offeror or contractor has a current CMMC status at the required level (or higher) before awarding, exercising an option, or extending performance. It matters because a contractor without a current CMMC status in SPRS at the required level cannot receive an award or keep an option exercised.

Applies to: Contracting officers and contractors subject to CMMC requirements

What it requires

  • Contracting officers must include the required CMMC level in the solicitation provision and contract clause.
  • Contracting officers must check SPRS and not award to an offeror without a current CMMC status at the required level or higher for each CMMC UID.
  • Contracting officers must check SPRS and not exercise an option or extend performance unless the contractor has a current CMMC status at the required level or higher for each CMMC UID.
  • If a contractor provides new CMMC UIDs during performance, the contracting officer must check SPRS for a current CMMC status at the required level or higher for each system identified.

Key terms: CMMC level · SPRS · CMMC status · CMMC UID · FCI

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

The text

(a) CMMC level. The contracting officer shall include the CMMC level (see 32 CFR 170.19) required by the program office or requiring activity in the solicitation provision and contract clause prescribed at 204.7504.

(b) Award. Contracting officers shall check SPRS and not award a contract, task order, or delivery order to an offeror that does not have a current CMMC status posted in SPRS at the CMMC level (see 32 CFR 170.15 through 170.18) required by the solicitation, or higher, for each CMMC UID provided by the offeror. The CMMC UIDs are applicable to each of the contractor information systems that will process, store, or transmit FCI or CUI and that will be used in performance of the contract.

(c) Option exercise or period of performance extension. Contracting officers shall check SPRS and not exercise an option or extend the period of performance on a contract, task order, or delivery order, unless the contractor has a current CMMC status posted in SPRS at the CMMC level (see 32 CFR 170.15 through 170.18) required by the contract, task order, or delivery order, or higher, for each CMMC UID provided by the contractor. The contractor's CMMC UIDs are applicable to each of the contractor information systems that process, store, or transmit FCI or CUI and that are or will be used in performance of the contract.

(d) CMMC UIDs. If the contractor provides new CMMC UIDs during performance of the contract, task order, or delivery order, the contracting officer shall check in SPRS, using the CMMC UIDs assigned by SPRS, that the contractor has a current CMMC status at the required CMMC level, or higher, for each of the contractor information systems identified that will process, store, or transmit FCI or CUI during contract performance.

Sections it refers to

  • 204.7504 Solicitation provision and contract clause.

Sections that refer to it

← 204.7502 Policy. · 204.7504 Solicitation provision and contract clause. →

Rule changes for DFARS Part 204

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

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