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FAR and DFARS › FAR Part 3: Improper Business Practices and Personal Conflicts of Interest › Subpart 3.1

FAR 3.103-3 The need for further certifications.

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 clarifies that a contractor who properly signed a certificate before the original award does not need to submit a separate certificate for each subsequent work order or similar ordering instrument under that contract. This exception applies when the Government's requirements cannot be met from another source.

Applies to: Contractors holding a contract that involves work orders or similar ordering instruments

Key terms: certificate · award · work order · ordering instrument · Government's requirements

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

The text

A contractor that properly executed the certificate before award does not have to submit a separate certificate with each proposal to perform a work order or similar ordering instrument issued pursuant to the terms of the contract, where the Government's requirements cannot be met from another source.

← 3.103-2 Evaluating the certification. · 3.104 Procurement integrity. →

Rule changes for FAR Part 3

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

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