FAR clauses/Part 32/Checked 15 Sep 2026
FAR 52.232-33
Payment by Electronic Funds Transfer—System for Award Management
- Clause date
- OCT 2018
- Prescribed at
- FAR 32.1110(a)(1). Insert in solicitations and contracts that include the provision at 52.204-7, System for Award Management, or an agency clause requiring SAM registration until final payment, unless payment will be made through a third party arrangement or an exception in 32.1103(a) through (i) applies.
- Applies to
- Contracts that require SAM registration and pay by EFT.
- Flowdown
- No flowdown required
52.232-33 contains no paragraph requiring its insertion in subcontracts. It is not listed in 52.244-6(c)(1) or 52.212-5(e)(1). Paragraph (g) does require an assignee under an assignment of claims to register separately in SAM and be paid by EFT. - Full text
- FAR 52.232-33 on Acquisition.gov
… The Government shall make payment to the Contractor using the EFT information contained in the System for Award Management (SAM). In the event that the EFT information changes, the Contractor shall be responsible for providing the updated information to SAM. …
From the clause · Codified FAR · FAC 2026-01
Why it matters: Under paragraph (d), if the contractor's banking information in SAM is wrong the Government need not pay, and any invoice is deemed not a proper invoice, so the prompt payment rules on improper invoices and delayed interest accrual apply.
This is the codified text, not any agency's Revolutionary FAR Overhaul deviation. An agency running a class deviation may have this clause renumbered, rewritten or prescribed differently — check the deviation before you put a clause in a solicitation.
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