---
title: "Prepare a confidentiality schedule for an awarded federal contract"
url: "https://ailawframework.com/practice/government-procurement-and-tendering/prepare-the-confidentiality-determination-schedule-for-the-awarded-contr/united-states"
type: "task_jurisdiction_version"
site: "AI Law Framework"
id: "A50-X20260927-8-US"
practice_area: "Government Procurement & Tendering"
tier: "yellow"
lawyer_review: "required"
jurisdictions: ["US"]
last_reviewed: "2026-10-22"
---

# Prepare a confidentiality schedule for an awarded federal contract

> From the contract passages the lawyer marks, list the passage, the page, and the reason the lawyer has written for treating it as confidential. Leave the reason blank where the lawyer has not written one.…

Canonical page: https://ailawframework.com/practice/government-procurement-and-tendering/prepare-the-confidentiality-determination-schedule-for-the-awarded-contr/united-states  
Last reviewed: 2026-10-22

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## Key facts

| Fact | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Practice area | [Government Procurement & Tendering](https://ailawframework.com/practice/government-procurement-and-tendering.md) |
| Human involvement | Yellow: Lawyer and AI draft together |
| How AI is used | From the contract passages the lawyer marks, list the passage, the page, and the reason the lawyer has written for treating it as confidential. Leave the reason blank where the lawyer has not written one. Do not decide that a passage is exempt from release. |
| What the lawyer must review | 5 U.S.C. 552(b)(4) lists trade secrets and commercial or financial information obtained from a person and privileged or confidential among the matters that are not subject to the disclosure otherwise required by the Freedom of Information Act. The subsection does not itself decide which contract passage meets that description. FAR 15.306(e) limits what government personnel involved in the acquisition may reveal during exchanges, including an offeror's technical solution and, without that offeror's permission, an offeror's price, subject to the exceptions in that paragraph. The schedule is a working paper. The lawyer decides what is claimed and what is said to the agency. |
| Written for | United States |
| Applies to | [Prepare the confidentiality determination schedule for the awarded contract](https://ailawframework.com/practice/government-procurement-and-tendering/prepare-the-confidentiality-determination-schedule-for-the-awarded-contr.md) |

## Checking plan

- What the AI does: From the contract passages the lawyer marks, list the passage, the page, and the reason the lawyer has written for treating it as confidential. Leave the reason blank where the lawyer has not written one. Do not decide that a passage is exempt from release.
- Basis: Checked against the linked sources on 22 October 2026. Confirm the current instrument before reliance.

## Notes

- A mark on the schedule is not an agency withholding decision.
- Do not apply a competitive-harm test. That test is not the text of section 552(b)(4).

## Sources

- [5 U.S.C. 552, Public information; agency rules, opinions, orders, records, and proceedings](https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/5/552) (checked 2026-10-22)
- [FAR 15.306, Exchanges with offerors after receipt of proposals](https://www.acquisition.gov/far/15.306) (checked 2026-10-22)

## Forms and precedents for this task

| Form or precedent | Kind | AI level | Summary |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [Confidentiality determination for an awarded contract](https://ailawframework.com/precedents/government-procurement-and-tendering/confidentiality-determination-schedule.md) | Checklist | Yellow | A schedule for deciding whether specific contract information is confidential, using Commonwealth Procurement Rules paragraph 7.24 and the four-criteria test on the Finance guidance page. |

Signed-in accounts can read the full text of each one.

*Practice guidance for planning and review. Confirm current primary sources and the requirements of the actual matter. This is general information, not legal advice.*