Enclosure (7) to COMDTINST 5230.60A
SECTION 508 DETERMINATION AND CERTIFICATION FOR ELECTRONIC AND
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (EIT) PURCHASE REQUESTS
TO BE COMPLETED BY THE REQUIRING OFFICIAL (PURCHASE REQUESTOR)
Non-EIT Deliverables Certification
This determination and certification documents compliance with a statutory requirement
applicable to any procurement of electronic and information technology (EIT) on or after June
21, 2001.
1. Actions required. Where there is no potential for EIT to be procured, do not proceed with
this document. If the requirement is questionable for potential compliance, the requiring
official must provide this completed document to the procurement office with the purchase
request.
2. Further explanation. Section 508 applies only to EIT. Where there is no possibility of any
EIT procurement, Section 508 does not apply.
a. If the requirement obviously has nothing to do with EIT, (e.g is for road paving,
furniture, paper products or janitorial services), do not proceed with this certification.
b. Products used by a contractor that are incidental to a government contract are also not
covered by the standards. For example, if, in a contract to have a website developed for
an agency, the contractor uses its own office system to develop the website, then the
website is required to comply with this rule since the website is the purpose of the
contract. However, the contractor's office system is not required to conform with these
standards, since the equipment used to produce the website is incidental to the contract
and there is no need to proceed with this certification.
c. The term EIT does not include any equipment that contains embedded information
technology that is used as an integral part of the product, but the principle function of
which is not the creation, conversion, duplication, acquisition, storage, manipulation,
management, movement, control, switching, interchange, transmission, or reception of
equipment such as thermostats or temperature control devices, and medical equipment
where information technology is integral to its operation are not EIT. In those cases
where this determination may be questionable for potential compliance, then the
requiring official should use this certification to document why they think Section 508
does not apply. Completed enclosures must be provided to the procurement official.
Is there any potential for an EIT deliverable to be procured pursuant to this requirement?
Section 508 standards apply to Electronic and Information Technology (EIT), a term defined as:
Any equipment or interconnected system or subsystem of equipment, that is used in the creation,
conversion, or duplication of data or information, or used in the automatic acquisition, storage,
manipulation, management, movement, control, display, switching, interchange, transmission, or
reception of data or information.
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