FS Form 7600A is the master document that records the General Terms and Conditions of an interagency agreement between a requesting federal agency and a servicing federal agency, and to fill out FS Form 7600A you download the blank form from the Bureau of the Fiscal Service’s Intra-governmental Transactions page, gather the required agency, financial, legal-authority, and date information, and enter it through the G-Invoicing system at ginv.for.fiscal.treasury.gov, which generates the GT&C Number and routes the agreement for signatures and mutual acceptance.1Bureau of the Fiscal Service. Intra-governmental Transactions The 7600A sets the umbrella terms; the companion FS Form 7600B captures individual orders placed under it.
What to Gather Before You Start
Required fields on the form are marked with an asterisk, and additional fields become mandatory once your agency is operating in G-Invoicing. Pulling this information together first will save you from stopping mid-entry to hunt for a code or a signatory.
Agency and Organization Fields
Both the requesting and servicing agencies enter a G-Invoicing Agency Name, Group Name, and Group Description. The Group Name is the organizational unit entering the agreement, and G-Invoicing populates the description automatically from your selection. Each side also sets a Document Inheritance Indicator, which controls whether subordinate groups within your agency can view the agreement in G-Invoicing.
Cost Center, Business Unit, and Department ID are optional segmentation fields that let agencies tag the agreement for internal tracking. If you populate any of them on the 7600A, the corresponding fields on every linked 7600B become mandatory, so decide early whether you want that downstream discipline or not.2Department of the Treasury | Bureau of the Fiscal Service. FS Form 7600B Instructions
Financial Identifiers
Each agency enters its eight-digit Agency Location Code, which Treasury uses to route payments between agencies.3Bureau of the Fiscal Service. FS Form 7600A Instructions Accounting stations use all eight digits. Non-Treasury disbursing offices use a four-digit code padded with leading zeros. G-Invoicing fills in the ALC description automatically once you enter the code.
You also need the Treasury Account Symbol for each agency’s funds. The TAS is built from the Agency Identifier, Beginning and Ending Period of Availability, Availability Type Code, Main Account Code, and Sub-Account Code, plus optional elements including the Allocation Transfer Agency Identifier and Sub-level Prefix Code.4Government Publishing Office. Component TAS-BETC Get this from your finance office. If the TAS doesn’t match valid appropriations for the transaction, the agreement won’t clear review.
Legal Authority
Every 7600A must cite the statute that authorizes the interagency transaction. The most commonly used is the Economy Act, which permits one agency to order goods or services from another when amounts are available, the ordering agency’s head determines it serves the government’s best interest, the servicing agency can provide or contract for the work, and the goods or services can’t be obtained as conveniently or cheaply from a commercial source.5Office of the Law Revision Counsel. 31 USC 1535 – Agency Agreements
Where a more specific statute applies, it takes precedence over the Economy Act. Common examples are 40 U.S.C. § 501 for Federal Supply Schedules and 40 U.S.C. § 11302(e) for Governmentwide Acquisition Contracts.6Acquisition.GOV. Subpart 17.5 – Interagency Acquisitions7Office of the Law Revision Counsel. 31 USC 1341 – Limitations on Expending and Obligating Amounts8Office of the Law Revision Counsel. 31 USC 1350 – Criminal Penalty Confirm the correct citation with your agency’s counsel before you enter it.
Period of Performance
The start and end dates define the window during which orders can be placed and services performed. They must respect the bona fide needs rule: fixed-period appropriations are available only for expenses properly incurred during the period of availability for which they were made.9Office of the Law Revision Counsel. 31 USC 1502 – Balances Available You cannot use this fiscal year’s money to pay for a need that belongs to a future fiscal year unless a specific statutory exception applies.
One exception covers multiyear service contracts. Under 41 U.S.C. § 3903, agencies can obligate current appropriations for severable services spanning up to five fiscal years.10U.S. Government Accountability Office. Department of Health and Human Services – Multiyear Contracting and the Bona Fide Needs Rule Align the 7600A dates carefully now to avoid awkward modifications later when 7600B orders are placed underneath.
Who Needs to Sign
The 7600A requires signatures from officials with authority to commit their agency. A Program Official initiates the process by certifying that the requested goods or services align with the agency’s mission, and manages the day-to-day relationship between the partner agencies once work begins.11Acquisition.GOV. PGI 217.5 – Interagency Acquisitions A Funding Official separately verifies that the budget exists and has been properly appropriated; their signature certifies funds are available for the full duration of the agreement.
Both agencies provide their own set of authorized officials, so a fully executed 7600A carries signatures from the requesting side and the servicing side. Both physical and electronic signatures are accepted as long as they meet federal security standards for financial transactions. Confirm your signatories before drafting; chasing down officials after the fact is one of the most common sources of delay.
Getting Access to G-Invoicing
All new interagency agreements must be processed through G-Invoicing, Treasury’s centralized platform for intra-governmental buy/sell transactions. The mandate took effect for new orders with a period of performance beginning October 1, 2022 or later, and agreements already in progress with an ending period of performance beyond September 30, 2023 had to be converted into the system by October 1, 2023.1Bureau of the Fiscal Service. Intra-governmental Transactions There is no paper-only path for current agreements.
Before you can log in, your federal entity must satisfy several prerequisites:
- Your entity must be a full Central Accounting Reporting System (CARS) TAS/BETC reporter. If it isn’t, start that transition first; G-Invoicing won’t let you in without it.
- Your entity completes the Agency Enrollment Form to identify primary points of contact, including an Agency Approver and a Primary Master Administrator, and to establish the agency’s G-Invoicing accounts.
- Individual user accounts are provisioned through SailPoint Identity IQ. Your manager must be established in SailPoint IIQ as the first approver for access requests, and an Agency AppApprover must be designated by submitting the G-Invoicing Agency Approver Form.
Once the prerequisites are in place, users self-assign roles through SailPoint IIQ and access the portal at ginv.for.fiscal.treasury.gov. Training materials and program overviews are available through Intralinks; request access by contacting the Treasury Support Center at GInvoicing@stls.frb.org or 1-877-440-9476.12Bureau of the Fiscal Service. Enrolling in G-Invoicing
Submitting the Agreement Through G-Invoicing
After logging in, navigate to the General Terms and Conditions module to start a new GT&C record. The system lets you enter data field by field or upload a pre-completed FS Form 7600A for digital processing. As you populate the fields, G-Invoicing generates a 20-character GT&C Number in the format AYYMM-(Requesting Agency ID)-(Servicing Agency ID)-sequential number. That identifier stays with the agreement for its entire lifecycle, including every modification.3Bureau of the Fiscal Service. FS Form 7600A Instructions
Once all required fields are complete, route the document for internal approval within your agency, then transmit it to the partner agency for their formal acceptance. G-Invoicing timestamps the submission and generates a confirmation, so both sides work from the same version. The servicing agency reviews the terms and provides electronic concurrence to finalize the GT&C. Only after that mutual acceptance is the 7600A active and able to support 7600B orders beneath it.
How the 7600A Connects to 7600B Orders
A single 7600A can support multiple 7600Bs, but the total cost across all orders cannot exceed the estimated amount recorded on the 7600A, and no order’s period of performance can extend past the 7600A’s end date.13Technology Transformation Services Handbook. Agreements Each 7600B in G-Invoicing must reference its parent 7600A by GT&C Number, and both agencies’ ALCs on the 7600B must appear on the ALC list defined in the parent 7600A.2Department of the Treasury | Bureau of the Fiscal Service. FS Form 7600B Instructions Errors at the 7600A level cascade into every order beneath it, which is why the fields above deserve careful review before you submit.
Modifying or Closing an Active Agreement
Changes to an active 7600A require a formal modification approved by both agencies. In G-Invoicing, the system appends a modification number to the GT&C Number after a decimal point and increments it with each change. Agencies not yet fully transitioned to G-Invoicing track modifications manually by incrementing the number by one. A brand-new GT&C starts with modification number 0.14Defense Logistics Agency. GT&C Instructions for FS Form 7600A
Common reasons to modify a 7600A include extending the period of performance, adding or removing Agency Location Codes, adjusting the estimated total amount, or changing authorized officials. Any modification that raises the cost ceiling for severable services counts as a new obligation and must independently satisfy the bona fide needs rule at the time it is executed.10U.S. Government Accountability Office. Department of Health and Human Services – Multiyear Contracting and the Bona Fide Needs Rule When the work is complete or the relationship ends, updating the GT&C status in G-Invoicing formally closes the agreement and blocks new 7600B orders from being written against it.