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FAR 53.243 Contract modifications (SF 30).

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 prescribes Standard Form 30 for amending solicitations and modifying contracts, purchase orders, and delivery orders. It also revises the instructions for Item 3 (effective date) on the form, covering confirming notices of termination for convenience and confirmations of settlement amounts. Contractors should know SF 30 is the form used to formally change a contract or solicitation.

Applies to: Contracting officers using SF 30 to amend solicitations or modify contracts, orders, and terminations

Key terms: SF 30 · Amendment of Solicitation/Modification of Contract · effective date · termination for convenience · confirming notice

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

The text

SF 30 (11/2016), Amendment of Solicitation/Modification of Contract. SF 30 is prescribed for use in amending invitation for bids, as specified in 14.208; modifying purchase and delivery orders, as specified in 13.302-3; and modifying contracts, as specified in 42.1203(h), 43.301, 49.602-5, and elsewhere in this chapter. The form may also be used to amend solicitations for negotiated contracts, as specified in 15.210(b). Pending the publication of a new edition of the form, Instruction (b), Item 3 (effective date), is revised in paragraphs (3) and (5) as follows:

(b) Item 3 (effective date).

(3) For a modification issued as a confirming notice of termination for the convenience of the Government, the effective date of the confirming notice shall be the same as the effective date of the initial notice.

(5) For a modification confirming the termination contracting officer's previous letter determination of the amount due in settlement of a contract termination for convenience, the effective date shall be the same as the effective date of the previous letter determination.

Sections it refers to

Sections that refer to it

  • 53.200 Scope of subpart.
  • 53.213 Simplified acquisition procedures (SF's 18, 30, 44, 1165, and 1449, and OF's 336, 347, and 348).
  • 53.214 Sealed bidding.
  • 53.215-1 Solicitation and receipt of proposals.
  • 53.242-1 Novation and change-of-name agreements (SF 30).

← 53.242-1 Novation and change-of-name agreements (SF 30). · 53.244 [Reserved] →

Rule changes for FAR Part 53

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

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