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Desk reference · not legal adviceEvery threshold/Bonds, reporting, responsibility, CAS and other transactions/Checked 2 Nov 2026
CAS full coverage threshold
$100,000,000was $50,000,000 until 1 Oct 2026
- Citation
- 48 CFR 9903.201-2(a)
- Last moved
- 1 October 2026, from $50,000,000
- Checked
- 2 November 2026, against the codified FAR and, where it leads the FAR, the statute
- Note
- Raised from $50 million on 1 October 2026 by the CAS Board final rule published 1 September 2026 (91 FR 56056), which carries out section 1806 of the FY2026 NDAA. The $50 million figure had stood since June 2000. Watch the FAR side: FAR 30.201-4(b)(1) still prescribes the clause at 52.230-3 for a contract “over $2.5 million but less than $50 million” and has not been conformed, so take coverage from 9903.201-2 rather than from the FAR’s prescription band. A business unit on full coverage only because of the old figure may move to modified coverage at the start of its next cost accounting period beginning on or after 1 October 2026 if it has no unresolved CAS noncompliances — 9903.201-2(b)(4).
A contractor business unit receives a single CAS-covered contract award today. At or above what amount, or what net CAS-covered awards in its preceding cost accounting period, does full CAS coverage apply rather than modified coverage?
$100,000,000 (48 CFR 9903.201-2(a)), as of 2 November 2026. It was $50,000,000 until it moved on 1 October 2026.
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Play today’s ThresholdBonds, reporting, responsibility, CAS and other transactions
6 more- First-tier subcontract reporting$40,000
- Prototype OT — head of contracting activity approval$100,000,000
- Prototype OT — senior procurement executive and congressional notice$500,000,000
- Miller Act performance and payment bonds$150,000
- CAS applicability — negotiated contract exemption$35,000,000
- Subcontracts with excluded parties — compelling reason threshold$45,000