---
kind: "section"
citation: "48 C.F.R. § 970.3270"
title: "48"
number: "970.3270"
heading: "Standard financial management clauses."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/48/970.3270"
---

# §970.3270. Standard financial management clauses.

- (a) **The following DEAR and FAR clauses are standard financial management clauses.** The contracting officer shall insert them in all management and operating contracts:
  - (1) **970.5232-2, Payments and Advances.**
    - (i) The contracting officer shall insert the basic clause with its Alternate I if a separate fixed-fee is provided for a separate item of work.
    - (ii) The contracting officer shall insert the basic clause with its Alternate II when total available fee provisions in the basic clause are used.
    - (iii) The contracting officer shall insert the basic clause with its Alternate III in management and operating contracts with integrated accounting systems.
    - (iv) The contracting officer shall insert the basic clause with its Alternate IV in management and operating contracts without integrated accounting systems.
  - (2) **970.5232-3, Accounts, records, and inspection.** If the contract includes the clause at [48 CFR 52.215-11](/cfr/48/52.215-11.md), Price Reduction for Defective Cost or Pricing Data—Modifications, the contracting officer shall use the clause with its Alternate I.
  - (3) **970.5232-4, Obligation of funds.** The contracting officer may use the clause with its Alternate I in contracts which, expressly or otherwise, provide a contractual basis for equivalent controls in a separate clause.
  - (4) 970.5232-5, Liability with respect to Cost Accounting Standards.
  - (5) 970.5232-6, Strategic Partnership Projects funding authorization.
  - (6) [48 CFR 52.230-2](/cfr/48/52.230-2.md), Cost Accounting Standards.
  - (7) [48 CFR 52.230-6](/cfr/48/52.230-6.md), Administration of Cost Accounting Standards.
- (b) **The following DEAR clauses are standard financial management clauses.** The contracting officer shall insert them in all management and operating contracts with integrated accounting systems:
  - (1) 970.5232-7, Financial management system.
  - (2) 970.5232-8, Integrated accounting.
- (c) Any deviations from the standard financial management clauses specified in paragraphs [(a)](#a) and [(b)](#b) of this section require the approval of the Head of the Contracting Activity and the written concurrence of the Department's Chief Financial Officer.

## Notes

### Amendments

[65 FR 81009, Dec. 22, 2000, as amended at 72 FR 29081, May 24, 2007; 74 FR 36373, July 22, 2009; 80 FR 15519, Mar. 24, 2015; 89 FR 89788, Nov. 13, 2024]

### 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.

### Amendments

[65 FR 81009, Dec. 22, 2000, as amended at 72 FR 29081, May 24, 2007; 74 FR 36373, July 22, 2009; 80 FR 15519, Mar. 24, 2015; 89 FR 89788, Nov. 13, 2024]