---
kind: "section"
citation: "48 C.F.R. § 1513.507"
title: "48"
number: "1513.507"
heading: "Contract clauses."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/48/1513.507"
---

# §1513.507. Contract clauses.

- (a)
  - (i) It is the general policy of the Environmental Protection Agency that contractor or vendor prescribed leases or maintenance agreements for equipment shall not be executed.
  - (ii) The contracting officer shall, where appropriate, insert the clause at 1552.213-70, Notice to Suppliers of Equipment, in orders for purchases or leases of automatic data processing equipment, word processing, and similar types of commercially available equipment for which vendors, as a matter of routine commercial practice, have developed their own leases and/or customer service maintenance agreements.
- (b) Where the supplies or services are offered under a Commercial Supplier Agreement (as defined in 1502.100), the purchase order or modification shall incorporate clause 1552.332-39, Unenforceability of Unauthorized Obligations (FAR DEVIATION), in lieu of nondeviated clause 52.232-39, and clause 1552.232-75, Commercial Supplier Agreements-Unenforceable Clauses.

## Notes

### Amendments

[86 FR 55713, Oct. 7, 2021]

### Authority

Authority: Sec. 205(c), 63 Stat. 390, as amended, 40 U.S.C. 486(c).

### Source

Source: 61 FR 57338, Nov. 6, 1996, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[86 FR 55713, Oct. 7, 2021]