---
kind: "section"
citation: "48 C.F.R. § 50.103-3"
title: "48"
number: "50.103-3"
heading: "Contract adjustment."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/48/50.103-3"
---

# §50.103-3. Contract adjustment.

- (a) **Contractor requests.** A contractor seeking a contract adjustment shall submit a request in duplicate to the contracting officer or an authorized representative. The request, normally a letter, shall state as a minimum—
  - (1) The precise adjustment requested;
  - (2) The essential facts, summarized chronologically in narrative form;
  - (3) The contractor's conclusions based on these facts, showing, in terms of the considerations set forth in 50.103-1 and 50.103-2, when the contractor considers itself entitled to the adjustment; and
  - (4) **Whether or not—**
    - (i) All obligations under the contracts involved have been discharged;
    - (ii) Final payment under the contracts involved has been made;
    - (iii) Any proceeds from the request will be subject to assignment or other transfer, and to whom; and
    - (iv) The contractor has sought the same, or a similar or related, adjustment from the Government Accountability Office or any other part of the Government, or anticipates doing so.
- (b) **Contractor certification.** A contractor seeking a contract adjustment that exceeds the simplified acquisition threshold shall, at the time the request is submitted, submit a certification by a person authorized to certify the request on behalf of the contractor that—
  - (1) The request is made in good faith; and
  - (2) **The supporting data are accurate and complete to the best of that person's knowledge and belief.**

## Notes

### 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: 72 FR 63030, Nov. 7, 2007, unless otherwise noted.