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No. Many non-Federal entities, particularly State agencies, call all of their legal instruments "contracts". A non-Federal entity may concurrently receive Federal awards as a recipient, subrecipient, and a contractor, depending on the substance of its agreement with the Federal awarding agency and pass-through entities. Therefore, a pass-through entity must make a case-by-case determination whether each agreement it makes for the disbursement of Federal program funds casts the party receiving the funds in the role of a subrecipient or a contractor. " Pass-through entities need to reflect upon the nature of the case-by-case relationship of the agreement in order to determine if the non-Federal entity is a subrecipient or a contractor.
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