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The authority under FAR Part 12, Commercial Items (and services), must be used thoughtfully and carefully. It is very tempting for a contracting officer to use FAR Part 12 and hence FAR Part 13 in situations where such use is clearly not appropriate in view of the basic reasons commercial item acquisition authority was created by Congress.
FAR 16.505(c) provides that the ordering period of an advisory and assistance services task order contract, including all options or modifications, may not exceed five years unless a longer period is specifically authorized in a law that is applicable to such a contract. DFARS Part 237 provides information for advisory and assistance contracts.
Only Contracting Officers may sign Government contracts on behalf of the Government. [33] A Contracting Officer has only the authority delegated pursuant to law and agency procedures. Unlike in commercial contracting, there is no doctrine of apparent authority applicable to the Government. Any action taken by a Contracting Officer which exceeds ...
A contracting officer (often abbreviated as KO in the US Army [1] or CO in the US Air Force [2]) is a person who can bind the Federal Government of the United States to a contract which is greater in value than the federal micro-purchase threshold ($10,000 for supplies, in most circumstances). [3] This is limited to the scope of authority ...
EU-based laws will continue to apply to government procurement until February 2025: these include the Public Contracts Regulations 2015, Part 3 of the Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Act 2015, [267] and (in Scotland) the Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations of 2015 [268] and 2016. [269]
A Contracting Officer's Technical Representative (COTR) is a business communications liaison between the United States government and a private contractor.The COTR is normally a federal or state employee who is responsible for recommending actions and expenditures for both standard delivery orders and task orders, and those that fall outside of the normal business practices of its supporting ...
Project 2025 has a starring role in this week’s Democratic National Convention. And it was front and center on Night 1. "This is Project 2025," Michigan state Sen. Mallory McMorrow, D-Royal Oak ...
GFR authority derives from two Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement contract clauses known as the Ground and Flight Risk Clause and the Flight Risk Clause. Any DoD contract involving the production, modification, maintenance, repair, or overhaul of aircraft must contain one of these two clauses which requires the US Government to ...