# 252.225-7042 Authorization to perform.
Type: Provision
Prescribed in: 225.1103(3)
Current version date: APR 2003

## Prescription and Applicability

### DFARS Prescription, 225.1103(3)

(3) Use the provision at 252.225-7042, Authorization to Perform, in solicitations when contract performance will be wholly or in part in a foreign country. If the solicitation includes the provision at FAR 52.204-7, do not separately list the provision 252.225-7042 in the solicitation.
(4) Unless an exception in 225.770-3 applies, use the clause at 252.225-7007 , Prohibition on Acquisition of Certain Items from Communist Chinese Military Companies, in solicitations and contracts, including solicitations and contracts using FAR part 12 procedures for the acquisition of commercial products and commercial services, involving the delivery of items covered by the United States Munitions List or the 600 series of the Commerce Control List.

## Current Text

252.225-7042 Authorization to perform.

As prescribed in 225.1103(3), use the following provision:

Authorization to Perform (APR 2003)

The offeror represents that it has been duly authorized to operate and to do business in the country or countries in which the contract is to be performed.

(End of provision)

[68 FR 15641, Mar. 31, 2003, as amended at 71 FR 39006, July 11, 2006]

## Active Class Deviations Affecting This Clause

### Class Deviation 2026-O0041, DFARS RFO Implementation (Part 25)
- Status: Active
- Date Issued: 2026-02-17
- Change type: MODIFIED
- Action: Modified by RFO class deviation

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Reference: https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-48/section-252.225-7042