---
kind: "section"
citation: "48 C.F.R. § 44.201-2"
title: "48"
number: "44.201-2"
heading: "Advance notification requirements."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/48/44.201-2"
---

# §44.201-2. Advance notification requirements.


Under cost-reimbursement contracts, the contractor is required by statute to notify the contracting officer as follows:

- (a) For the Department of Defense, the Coast Guard, and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, unless the contractor maintains an approved purchasing system, [10 U.S.C. 3322(c)](/usc/10/3322.md?p=c) requires notification before the award of any cost-plus-fixed-fee subcontract, or any fixed-price subcontract that exceeds the greater of the simplified acquisition threshold or 5 percent of the total estimated cost of the contract.
- (b) For civilian agencies other than the Coast Guard and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, even if the contractor has an approved purchasing system, [41 U.S.C. 3905](/usc/41/3905.md) requires notification before the award of any cost-plus-fixed-fee subcontract, or any fixed-price subcontract that exceeds either the simplified acquisition threshold or 5 percent of the total estimated cost of the contract.

## Notes

### Amendments

[70 FR 11762, Mar. 9, 2005, as amended at 79 FR 24213, Apr. 29, 2014; 87 FR 73900, Dec. 1, 2022]

### Authority

Authority: 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 42388, Sept. 19, 1983, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[70 FR 11762, Mar. 9, 2005, as amended at 79 FR 24213, Apr. 29, 2014; 87 FR 73900, Dec. 1, 2022]