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FAR and DFARS › FAR Part 4: Administrative and Information Matters › Subpart 4.13

FAR 4.1301 Policy.

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 requires agencies to follow federal personal identity verification standards for contractor personnel who need routine access to federal facilities or information systems. It also mandates that agencies include these requirements in contracts and ensure contractors return government-issued identification when it is no longer needed, upon an employee's departure, or when the contract ends. Contractors must comply or risk delayed final payment.

Applies to: Contractors and subcontractor personnel with routine physical access to a Federally-controlled facility and/or routine access to a Federally-controlled information system.

What it requires

  • Account for all forms of Government-provided identification issued to contractor employees under a contract.
  • Return such identification to the issuing agency as soon as it is no longer needed for contract performance, upon completion of a contractor employee's employment, or upon contract completion or termination.

Key terms: FIPS PUB Number 201 · OMB implementation guidance · Personal Identity Verification (PIV) products · routine physical access · routine access to a Federally-controlled information system

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

The text

(a) Agencies must follow FIPS PUB Number 201 and the associated OMB implementation guidance for personal identity verification for all affected contractor and subcontractor personnel when contract performance requires contractors to have routine physical access to a Federally-controlled facility and/or routine access to a Federally-controlled information system.

(b) Agencies must include their implementation of FIPS PUB 201 and OMB Guidance M-05-24 in solicitations and contracts that require the contractor to have routine physical access to a Federally-controlled facility and/or routine access to a Federally-controlled information system.

(c) Agencies must designate an official responsible for verifying contractor employee personal identity.

(d)(1) Agency procedures for the return of Personal Identity Verification (PIV) products shall ensure that Government contractors account for all forms of Government-provided identification issued to Government contractor employees under a contract, i.e., the PIV cards or other similar badges, and shall ensure that contractors return such identification to the issuing agency as soon as any of the following occurs, unless otherwise determined by the agency:

(i) When no longer needed for contract performance.

(ii) Upon completion of a contractor employee's employment.

(iii) Upon contract completion or termination.

(2) The contracting officer may delay final payment under a contract if the contractor fails to comply with these requirements.

← 4.1300 Scope of subpart. · 4.1302 Acquisition of approved products and services for personal identity verification. →

Rule changes for FAR Part 4

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

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