[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: 48CFR33.210]

[Page 697]
 
            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. 33.210  Contracting officer's authority.

    Except as provided in this section, contracting officers are 
authorized, within any specific limitations of their warrants, to decide 
or resolve all claims arising under or relating to a contract subject to 
the Act. In accordance with agency policies and 33.214, contracting 
officers are authorized to use ADR procedures to resolve claims. The 
authority to decide or resolve claims does not extend to--
    (a) A claim or dispute for penalties or forfeitures prescribed by 
statute or regulation that another Federal agency is specifically 
authorized to administer, settle, or determine; or
    (b) The settlement, compromise, payment or adjustment of any claim 
involving fraud.

[48 FR 42349, Sept. 19, 1983. Redesignated and amended at 50 FR 2270, 
Jan. 15, 1985; 51 FR 36972, Oct. 16, 1986; 59 FR 11381, Mar. 10, 1994]