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			      <ph props="autonumber" class="- topic/ph ">504.475</ph> Return of classified information.</title>
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						             Contracting officers must recover classified information, unless it has been destroyed as provided in Section 7 of Chapter 5 of the National Industrial Security Program Operating Manual (NISPOM). Information on NISPOM can be found at <xref href="http://www.fas.org/sgp/library/nispom.htm."
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						             Contracting officers must ensure that classified information provided by the government is returned immediately after any of the following events:</p>
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                        <ph props="autonumber" class="- topic/ph ">(1)</ph>
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
								                 Bid opening or closing date for receipt of proposals by non-responding offerors.</p>
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								                 Contract award by unsuccessful offerors.</p>
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                        <ph props="autonumber" class="- topic/ph ">(3)</ph>
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
								                 Termination or completion of the contract.</p>
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								                 Notification that authorization to release classified information has been withdrawn.</p>
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								                 Notification that a facility:</p>
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										                     Does not have adequate means to safeguard classified information; or</p>
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										                     Has had its security clearance revoked or inactivated.</p>
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                        <ph props="autonumber" class="- topic/ph ">(6)</ph>
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
								                 Whenever otherwise instructed by the authority responsible for the security classification.</p>
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						             The Government agency that provided classified information to a GSA contractor is responsible for the return of the information.</p>
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