NIST-SA-4(12) Data Ownership

(a) Include organizational data ownership requirements in the acquisition contract; and (b) Require all data to be removed from the contractor’s system and returned to the organization within [Assignment: time frame].

Contractors who operate a system that contains data owned by an organization initiating the contract have policies and procedures in place to remove the data from their systems and/or return the data in a time frame defined by the contract.