The basic safeguarding self-check: CMMC Level 1's fifteen requirements, your own answers

Under each requirement you choose "In place", "Not yet" or "Not sure", one at a time, and the answer is saved. Nothing is pre-filled, defaulted or suggested: a requirement you have not answered shows "No answer yet", and a new choice replaces the old one.

Beside each requirement is "Firmenza's explanation", one plain line of our own on what it asks for, such as confirming who someone is before they get in, or wiping a device before it leaves your hands. It is not the clause and not legal advice. The clause's words stay above it, so you answer against the requirement itself.

At the top, the page says how many of the fifteen you marked in place, for example "9 of 15 marked in place by you". It is a count of your own marks. It is not a score, it sets no threshold, and it does not say whether a requirement is met.

This is your own self-check. Your answers are private to your account: no other account, no staff screen, no email and no AI reads them, and they are deleted with the account. Firmenza never makes, files or affirms anything in SPRS or anywhere else from them. A CMMC Level 1 self-assessment, its result in SPRS and the affirmation that goes with it are statements the business makes about its own systems, and the self-check is a place to think them through first, not any of those statements.

The AI assistant does not answer for you either. Ask it what CMMC is and it explains in general words; ask it whether your own business meets a requirement, or to pick an answer, and it refers you to a free counselor or an attorney instead.

Whether this clause applies to a contract is for that contract to say, and whether a CMMC Level 1 requirement applies is for its solicitation or contract to state. The contracting officer on that contract can tell you which. The card just below this post lists free counselors who can read the terms with you, and our guide on a first federal contract says what else comes before a first bid.