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FAR and DFARS › FAR Part 4: Administrative and Information Matters › Subpart 4.6

FAR 4.603 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 that unclassified Federal award data be publicly accessible, and that agencies use FPDS to report contract actions above the micro-purchase threshold, including certain modifications. It also covers how agencies must report assisted and direct acquisitions, including funding agency codes and socioeconomic credit, and how to report contract actions with mixed appropriated and non-appropriated funding.

Applies to: Executive agencies awarding contracts and other Federal award data

What it requires

  • Use FPDS to maintain publicly available information about all unclassified contract actions exceeding the micro-purchase threshold, and any modifications that change previously reported contract action report data, regardless of dollar value.
  • Report assisted acquisitions or direct acquisitions and identify the Program/Funding Agency and Office Codes from the applicable agency codes maintained by each agency at FPDS.
  • For assisted acquisitions, provide the appropriate agency/bureau component code as part of the written interagency agreement between the requesting and servicing agencies.
  • For contract actions with a mix of appropriated and non-appropriated funding, report only the full appropriated portion of the contract action in FPDS.

Key terms: FPDS · micro-purchase threshold · assisted acquisitions · direct acquisitions · socioeconomic credit

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

The text

(a) In accordance with the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006 (Pub. L. 109-282), all unclassified Federal award data must be publicly accessible.

(b) Executive agencies shall use FPDS to maintain publicly available information about all unclassified contract actions exceeding the micro-purchase threshold, and any modifications to those actions that change previously reported contract action report data, regardless of dollar value.

(c) Agencies awarding assisted acquisitions or direct acquisitions must report these actions and identify the Program/Funding Agency and Office Codes from the applicable agency codes maintained by each agency at FPDS. These codes represent the agency and office that has provided the predominant amount of funding for the contract action. For assisted acquisitions, the requesting agency will receive socioeconomic credit for meeting agency small business goals, where applicable. Requesting agencies shall provide the appropriate agency/bureau component code as part of the written interagency agreement between the requesting and servicing agencies (see 17.502-1(a)(1)).

(d) Agencies awarding contract actions with a mix of appropriated and non-appropriated funding shall only report the full appropriated portion of the contract action in FPDS.

Sections it refers to

← 4.602 General. · 4.604 Responsibilities. →

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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