---
kind: "section"
citation: "48 C.F.R. § 32.1103"
title: "48"
number: "32.1103"
heading: "Applicability."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/48/32.1103"
---

# §32.1103. Applicability.


The Government shall provide all contract payments through EFT except if—

- (a) The office making payment under a contract that requires payment by EFT, loses the ability to release payment by EFT. To the extent authorized by [31 CFR part 208](/cfr/31/part208.md), the payment office shall make necessary payments pursuant to paragraph (a)(2) of the clause at either 52.232-33 or 52.232-34 until such time as it can make EFT payments;
- (b) The payment is to be received by or on behalf of the contractor outside the United States and Puerto Rico (but see 32.1106(b));
- (c) A contract is paid in other than United States currency (but see 32.1106(b));
- (d) Payment by EFT under a classified contract could compromise the safeguarding of classified information or national security, or arrangements for appropriate EFT payments would be impractical due to security considerations;
- (e) A contract is awarded by a deployed contracting officer in the course of military operations, including, but not limited to, contingency operations as defined in 2.101, or a contract is awarded by any contracting officer in the conduct of emergency operations, such as responses to natural disasters or national or civil emergencies, if—
  - (1) EFT is not known to be possible; or
  - (2) EFT payment would not support the objectives of the operation;
- (f) The agency does not expect to make more than one payment to the same recipient within a one-year period;
- (g) An agency's need for supplies and services is of such unusual and compelling urgency that the Government would be seriously injured unless payment is made by a method other than EFT;
- (h) There is only one source for supplies and services and the Government would be seriously injured unless payment is made by a method other than EFT; or
- (i) **Otherwise authorized by Department of the Treasury Regulations at 31 CFR part 208.**

## Notes

### Amendments

[64 FR 10540, Mar. 4, 1999, as amended at 67 FR 6114, Feb. 8, 2002; 68 FR 13203, Mar. 18, 2003; 68 FR 56673, Oct. 1, 2003]

### Source

Source: 64 FR 10540, Mar. 4, 1999, unless otherwise noted.

### Authority

Authority: 41 U.S.C. 1121(b); 40 U.S.C. 121(c); 10 U.S.C. chapter 4 and 10 U.S.C. chapter 137 legacy provisions (see 10 U.S.C. 3016); and 51 U.S.C. 20113.

### Source

Source: 48 FR 42328, Sept. 19, 1983, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[64 FR 10540, Mar. 4, 1999, as amended at 67 FR 6114, Feb. 8, 2002; 68 FR 13203, Mar. 18, 2003; 68 FR 56673, Oct. 1, 2003]