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FAR 8.716 Change-of-name and successor in interest 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 describes what happens when the Committee for Purchase From People Who Are Blind or Severely Disabled recognizes a name change or successor in interest for an AbilityOne participating nonprofit agency on the Procurement List. It requires the Committee to notify contracting officers and requires those officers to amend affected contracts using SF 30 and distribute it, including to the Committee.

Applies to: Contracting officers with contracts affected by an AbilityOne nonprofit agency's recognized name change or successor in interest

What it requires

  • Upon receiving the Committee's notice of a change to the Procurement List, prepare SF 30 incorporating a summary of the notice and attaching a list of affected contracts
  • Distribute the SF 30, including a copy to the Committee

Key terms: Committee · AbilityOne · Procurement List · successor in interest · SF 30

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

The text

When the Committee recognizes a name change or a successor in interest for an AbilityOneparticipating nonprofit agency providing supplies or services on the Procurement List—

(a) The Committee will provide a notice of a change to the Procurement List to the cognizant contracting officers; and

(b) Upon receipt of a notice of a change to the Procurement List from the Committee, the contracting officer must—

(1) Prepare a Standard Form (SF) 30, Amendment of Solicitation/Modification of Contract, incorporating a summary of the notice and attaching a list of contracts affected; and

(2) Distribute the SF 30, including a copy to the Committee.

Sections that refer to it

← 8.715 Replacement commodities. · 8.800 Scope of subpart. →

Rule changes for FAR Part 8

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

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