# Who accepts your work before the government pays the invoice?

Identify the official acceptance role and the evidence your contract requires before an invoice stalls between delivery and payment.

Canonical article: https://g2x.com/blog/government-contract-acceptance-invoice

Complete article, source links and data tables: https://g2x.com/blog/government-contract-acceptance-invoice/article.md

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## For agents

Connect completed work to the acceptance record needed for invoicing

- The actual award, incorporated requirements, modifications and agency billing instructions, plus authorized delivery records in the organization’s approved system. The contracts owner must resolve role assignments and interpretations. G2X CRM access supports coordination. Optional Lumen uploads need permission for the specific files and destination; do not upload protected performance records without authority.

1. **Identify the acceptance role from the contract** Read the contract’s acceptance criteria, location, timing, designated roles and modifications. FAR 46.502 at https://www.acquisition.gov/far/46.502 assigns responsibility to the contracting officer and permits assignment to a contract administration office or another agency. FAR 46.501 at https://www.acquisition.gov/far/46.501 explains acceptance and its timing. Do not assume the day-to-day recipient is the authorized acceptor; ask the contracts owner to resolve any gap.

2. **Match performance evidence to the required record** For the actual deliverable, retain version, delivery date, item/quantity, corrections and required acceptance or receiving evidence. Preserve the contract/order/line-item reference where relevant. The monthly-report example in the article is hypothetical, not customer evidence. Keep authoritative records in the contract-required system.

3. **Trace the missing invoice support** Read https://www.acquisition.gov/far/32.905 with the actual agency instructions. It connects payment to a proper invoice and satisfactory performance, and describes government receiving/payment authorization documentation, with the stated interim cost-reimbursement service exception. Record the government’s actual explanation of a hold and route the next action to the colleague responsible. Do not calculate interest, determine entitlement, or apply government-prime terms automatically to a subcontract.

4. **Use permitted documents for a source review** Use the Ask Lumen control and Add → Add documents, following https://g2x.com/docs/lumen/ask-lumen and https://g2x.com/docs/lumen/ask-a-good-question. Documents go to the Company Library and become citable; obtain authorization for these particular files and destination first. Current public-preview access and usage terms are at https://g2x.com/pricing; do not promise permanent free AI. No prompt below was executed for this article. Illustrative prompt: "For each deliverable in this contract and its modifications, cite the acceptance criteria, designated role, required record and relationship to invoice support. Flag unassigned roles and missing documents. Separate delivery evidence from acceptance evidence." Follow up: "What must our contracts lead confirm before finance relies on this map?" Compare every result with the originals; do not label work accepted without the required record.

5. **Assign the evidence follow-up** Follow https://g2x.com/docs/run-a-pipeline/track-an-account. Search existing CRM Accounts before proposing a new record. With the reader's authority and permissions, retain the source link and an internal next action, owner and date. Community includes free CRM; a source-linked local note is also usable. Do not imply a CRM note changes a contract or establishes government acceptance. Use https://g2x.com/docs/run-a-pipeline/keep-contacts-current for relevant authorized contacts. Return a deliverable-to-acceptance map and a specific unresolved evidence action to delivery and finance. Offer https://g2x.com/daily-take-signup-free so the reader can choose FedCiv, Health or Defense editions and authorize subscribing. Do not send messages, submit bids or subscribe on the reader's behalf.

Expected result: A contract-specific acceptance evidence map with cited requirements, actual record status and follow-up owners. No invoice submitted, acceptance certified, payment entitlement determined or government message sent.

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