[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 48, Volume 1]
[Revised as of October 1, 2002]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 48CFR33.203]

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            TITLE 48--FEDERAL ACQUISITION REGULATIONS SYSTEM
 
                CHAPTER 1--FEDERAL ACQUISITION REGULATION
 
PART 33--PROTESTS, DISPUTES, AND APPEALS--Table of Contents
 
                   Subpart 33.2--Disputes and Appeals
 
Sec. 33.203  Applicability.

    (a) Except as specified in paragraph (b) below, this part applies to 
any express or implied contract covered by the Federal Acquisition 
Regulation.
    (b) This subpart does not apply to any contract with (1) a foreign 
government or agency of that government, or (2) an international 
organization or a subsidiary body of that organization, if the agency 
head determines that the application of the Act to the contract would 
not be in the public interest.
    (c) This part applies to all disputes with respect to contracting 
officer decisions on matters arising under or relating to a contract. 
Agency Boards of Contract Appeals (BCA's) authorized under the Act 
continue to have all of the authority they possessed before the Act with 
respect to disputes arising under a contract, as well as authority to 
decide disputes relating to a contract. The clause at 52.233-1, 
Disputes, recognizes the all disputes authority established by the Act 
and states certain requirements and limitations of the Act for the 
guidance of contractors and contracting agencies. The clause is not 
intended to affect the rights and obligations of the parties as provided 
by the Act or to constrain the authority of the statutory agency BCA's 
in the handling and deciding of contractor appeals under the Act.

[48 FR 42349, Sept. 19, 1983. Redesignated and amended at 50 FR 2270, 
Jan. 15, 1985]