---
kind: "section"
citation: "48 C.F.R. § 970.2770-4"
title: "48"
number: "970.2770-4"
heading: "Contract clause."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/48/970.2770-4"
---

# §970.2770-4. Contract clause.

- (a) The contracting officer shall insert the clause at 970.5227-3, Technology Transfer Mission, in each solicitation for a new or an extension of an existing laboratory or weapon production facility management and operating contract.
- (b) If the contractor is a nonprofit organization or small business eligible under [35 U.S.C. 200](/usc/35/200.md) et seq., to receive title to any inventions under the contract and proposes to fund at private expense the maintaining, licensing, and marketing of the inventions, the contracting officer shall use the basic clause with its Alternate I.
- (c) If the facility is operated for national security purposes and engaged in the production, maintenance, testing, or dismantlement of a nuclear weapon or its components, the contracting officer shall use the basic clause with its Alternate II.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 42 U.S.C. 2201; 2282a; 2282b; 2282c; 42 U.S.C. 7101 et seq.; 50 U.S.C. 2401 et seq.

### Source

Source: 65 FR 81009, Dec. 22, 2000, unless otherwise noted.