APPENDIX B VA HANDBOOK 6500.6.pdf

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This document is an appendix to VA Handbook 6500.6 containing a VA Acquisition Regulation solicitation provision and contract clause template. The document is dated March 12, 2010, and addresses information and information technology security requirements for VA contracts.

The clause, designated 852.273-75 "Security Requirements for Unclassified Information Technology Resources" (interim version from October 2008), is prescribed for insertion into solicitations and contracts where VA Sensitive Information or Information Technology will be accessed or utilized. The clause establishes that contractors, their personnel, and their subcontractors shall be subject to Federal laws, regulations, standards, and VA Directives and Handbooks regarding information and information system security as delineated in the specific contract. The clause is intended to mitigate threats of data breach, compromise, or loss of information residing on either VA-owned or contractor-owned systems, and applies to VA sensitive information accessed, used, stored, generated, transmitted, or exchanged in any format including paper, microfiche, electronic, or magnetic portable media. The document notes that this clause language was interim pending official rulemaking and public review through the Federal Register, with final approved language to be obtained from the VA Office of Acquisitions and Logistics Programs and Policy.

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MARCH 12, 2010

VA HANDBOOK 6500.6

APPENDIX B

VA ACQUISITION REGULATION SOLICITATION PROVISION AND CONTRACT

CLAUSE

NOTE: This clause will undergo official rule making by the Office of Acquisitions and Logistics.

The below language will be submitted for public review through the Federal Register. The final wording of the clause may be changed from what is outlined below based on public review and comment. Once approved, the final language in the clause can be obtained from the Office of Acquisitions and Logistics Programs and Policy.

1. SUBPART 839.2 – INFORMATION AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

SECURITY REQUIREMENTS

839.201 Contract clause for Information and Information Technology Security:

a. Due to the threat of data breach, compromise or loss of information that resides on either VA-owned or contractor-owned systems, and to comply with Federal laws and regulations, VA has developed an Information and Information Technology Security clause to be used when VA sensitive information is accessed, used, stored, generated, transmitted, or exchanged by and between VA and a contractor, subcontractor or a third party in any format (e.g., paper, microfiche, electronic or magnetic portable media).

b. In solicitations and contracts where VA Sensitive Information or Information

Technology will be accessed or utilized, the CO shall insert the clause found at 852.273-75, Security Requirements for Unclassified Information Technology Resources.

2. 852.273-75 - SECURITY REQUIREMENTS FOR UNCLASSIFIED

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY RESOURCES (INTERIM- OCTOBER 2008)

As prescribed in 839.201, insert the following clause:

The contractor, their personnel, and their subcontractors shall be subject to the Federal laws, regulations, standards, and VA Directives and Handbooks regarding information and information system security as delineated in this contract.

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