227.7203-13  Government right to review, verify, challenge and validate asserted restrictions.

8.  Amend section 227.7203-13 by:

(a)  Redesignating paragraphs (d) through (f) as (e) through (g), respectively; and

(b)  Adding a new paragraph (d) to read as follows:

227.7203-13  Government right to review, verify, challenge and validate asserted restrictions.

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(d)  Major systems. When the contracting officer challenges an asserted restriction regarding noncommercial computer software for a major system or a subsystem or component thereof on the basis that the computer software was not developed exclusively at private expense, the contracting officer shall sustain the challenge unless information provided by the contractor or subcontractor demonstrates that the computer software was developed exclusively at private expense.

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