Under the provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act, the Regulatory Secretariat Division has submitted to OMB a request to review and approve an extension of a previously approv...
[OMB Control No. 9000-0138; Docket No. 2026-0100; Sequence No. 1]
AGENCY:
Office of Federal Procurement Policy (OFPP), Office of Management and Budget (OMB); Department of Defense (DOD); General Services Administration (GSA); and National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
ACTION:
Notice.
SUMMARY:
Under the provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act, the Regulatory Secretariat Division has submitted to OMB a request to review and approve an extension of a previously approved information collection requirement regarding contract financing.
DATES:
Submit comments on or before September 14, 2026.
ADDRESSES:
Written comments and recommendations for this information collection should be sent within 30 days of publication of this notice to
www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain.
Find this particular information collection by selecting “Currently under Review—Open for Public Comments” or by using the search function.
A. OMB Control Number, Title, and Any Associated Form(s)
9000-0138, Contract Financing.
B. Need and Uses
This clearance covers the information that offerors and contractors must submit to comply with the following Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) requirements:
FAR 52.232-28, Invitation to Propose Performance-Based Payments.
This provision requires an offeror, when invited to propose terms under which the Government will make performance-based contract financing payments during contract performance, to include the following: the proposed contractual language describing the performance-based payments; information addressing the contractor's investment in the contract and a listing of—
(i) The projected performance-based payment dates and the projected payment amounts; and
(ii) The projected delivery date and the projected payment amount.
FAR 52.232-29, Terms for Financing of Purchases of Commercial Products and Commercial Services.
FAR 52.232-30, Installment Payments for Commercial Products and Commercial Services.
These clauses require contractors, under commercial purchases pursuant to FAR part 12, to include with their payment requests an appropriately itemized statement of the financing payments requested and other supporting information, prepared in concert with the contracting officer.
FAR 52.232-31, Invitation to Propose Financing Terms.
This provision requires an offeror, when invited to propose terms under which the Government will make contract financing payments during contract performance under commercial purchases pursuant to FAR part 12, to include the following: the proposed contractual language describing the contract financing; and a listing of the earliest date and greatest amount at which each contract financing payment may be payable and the amount of each delivery payment.
FAR 52.232-32, Performance-Based Payments.
This clause requires the contractor's request for performance-based payment to include any information and documentation as required by the contract's description of the basis for payment; and a certification by a contractor official authorized to bind the contractor.
The contracting officer uses the collected information to review and approve contract financing requests, and establish and administer contract financing terms.
C. Common Form
The General Services Administration is the sponsor agency of this common form. All executive agencies covered by the FAR will use this common form. Each executive agency will report their agency burden separately, and the reported information will be available at
Reginfo.gov.
D. Annual Burden
General Services Administration
Respondents:
49.
( printed page 52696)
Total Annual Responses:
371.
Total Burden Hours:
742.
E. Public Comment
A 60-day notice was published in the
Federal Register
at 91 FR 27050, on May 13, 2026. No comments were received.
Janet Fry,
Director,
Federal Acquisition Policy Division, Office of Governmentwide Acquisition Policy, Office of Acquisition Policy, Office of Governmentwide Policy.
www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain