(Revised September
8, 2006)
202.101 Definitions.
202.101 Definitions.
“Congressional defense committees” means—
(1) The Committee on Armed Services of the
Senate;
(2) The Subcommittee on Defense of the Committee
on Appropriations of the Senate;
(3) The Committee on Armed Services of the House
of Representatives; and
(4) The Subcommittee on Defense of the Committee
on Appropriations of the House of Representatives.
"Contract administration office"
also means a contract management office of the Defense Contract Management
Agency.
“Contracting activity” for DoD also means
elements designated by the director of a defense agency which has been
delegated contracting authority through its agency charter. DoD contracting activities are—
DEPARTMENT
OF DEFENSE
Department
of Defense Education Activity
TRICARE
Management Activity
Acquisition
and Procurement Office,
ARMY
Contract
Support Agency
Office
of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Research, Development and Acquisition,
Aviation
and Missile Command
Industrial
Operations Command
Communications-Electronics
Command
Tank-Automotive
and Armaments Command
Training
and Doctrine Command
Forces
Command
Health
Services Command
Military
District of
National
Guard Bureau
Corps
of Engineers
Information
Systems Command
Medical
Research and Development Command
Military
Traffic Management Command
Space
and Strategic Defense Command
Eighth
Intelligence
and Security Command
Defense
Contracting Command-Washington
Directorate
of Information Systems for Command, Control, Communications
and
Computers, Office of the Secretary of the Army
NAVY
Deputy,
Acquisition Management, Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Navy
(Research,
Development, and Acquisition)
Naval
Air Systems Command
Space
and Naval Warfare Systems Command
Naval
Facilities Engineering Command
Naval
Inventory Control Point
Naval
Sea Systems Command
Naval
Supply Systems Command
Office
of Naval Research
Military
Sealift Command
Strategic
Systems Programs
Marine
Corps Systems Command
Installations
and Logistics,
AIR
FORCE
Office
of the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force (Acquisition)
Office
of the Deputy Assistant Secretary (Contracting)
Air
Force Materiel Command
Air
Force Reserve Command
Air
Combat Command
Air
Mobility Command
Air
Education and Training Command
Pacific
Air Forces
Air
Force Space Command
DEFENSE
ADVANCED RESEARCH PROJECTS AGENCY
Office
of the Deputy Director, Management
DEFENSE
CONTRACT MANAGEMENT AGENCY
Office
of the Director, Defense Contract Management Agency
DEFENSE
FINANCE AND ACCOUNTING SERVICE
External
Services, Defense Finance and Accounting Service
DEFENSE
INFORMATION SYSTEMS AGENCY
Defense
Information Technology Contracting Organization
DEFENSE
INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
Office
of Procurement
DEFENSE
LOGISTICS AGENCY
Office
of the Deputy Director, Logistics Operations
Defense
Supply Centers
NATIONAL
IMAGERY AND MAPPING AGENCY
Procurement
and Contracting Office
DEFENSE
THREAT REDUCTION AGENCY
Acquisition
Management Office
NATIONAL
SECURITY AGENCY
Headquarters,
National Security Agency
MISSILE
DEFENSE AGENCY
Headquarters,
Missile Defense Agency
UNITED
STATES SPECIAL OPERATIONS COMMAND
“Contracting officer's representative” means
an individual designated and authorized in writing by the contracting officer
to perform specific technical or administrative functions.
“Departments and agencies,” as used in DFARS,
means the military departments and the defense agencies. The military departments are the Departments
of the Army, Navy, and Air Force (the Marine Corps is a part of the Department
of the Navy). The defense agencies are
the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the Defense Commissary Agency,
the Defense Contract Management Agency, the Defense Finance and Accounting
Service, the Defense Information Systems Agency, the Defense Intelligence
Agency, the Defense Security Service, the Defense Logistics Agency, the
National Imagery and Mapping Agency, the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, the
National Security Agency, the Missile Defense Agency, and the United States
Special Operations Command.
“Department of Defense (DoD),” as used in
DFARS, means the Department of Defense, the military departments, and the
defense agencies.
“Executive agency” means for DoD, the
Department of Defense, the Department of the Army, the Department of the Navy,
and the Department of the Air Force.
“Head of the agency” means, for DoD, the
Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of the Army, the Secretary of the Navy, and
the Secretary of the Air Force. Subject
to the direction of the Secretary of Defense, the Under Secretary of Defense
(Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics), and the Director of Defense
Procurement and Acquisition Policy, the directors of the defense agencies have
been delegated authority to act as head of the agency for their respective
agencies (i.e., to perform functions under the FAR or DFARS reserved to a head
of agency or agency head), except for such actions that by terms of statute, or
any delegation, must be exercised within the Office of the Secretary of
Defense.
See DoD Class Deviation 2003-O0002,
Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Concerning Implementation of the Homeland
Security Act Provisions Relating to Procurements for Defense Against or
Recovery from Terrorism or Nuclear, Biological, Chemical or Radiological
Attack, issued on April 18, 2003. This
deviation is effective until incorporated into the DFARS or otherwise
rescinded.
“Procedures,
Guidance, and Information (PGI)” means a companion resource to the DFARS that—
(1)
Contains mandatory internal DoD procedures. The DFARS will direct compliance with
mandatory procedures using imperative language such as “Follow the procedures
at...” or similar directive language;
(2)
Contains non-mandatory internal DoD procedures and guidance and
supplemental information to be used at the discretion of the contracting
officer. The DFARS will point to
non-mandatory procedures, guidance, and information using permissive language
such as “The contracting officer may use...” or “Additional information is
available at...” or other similar language;
(3)
Is numbered similarly to the DFARS, except that each PGI numerical
designation is preceded by the letters “PGI”; and
(4)
Is available electronically at http://www.acq.osd.mil/dpap/dars/index.htm.
“Senior procurement executive” means, for
DoD—
Department
of Defense (including the defense agencies)--Under Secretary of
Defense
(Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics);
Department
of the Army--Assistant Secretary of the Army (Acquisition, Logistics and Technology);
Department
of the Navy--Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Research,
Development
and Acquisition);
Department
of the Air Force--Assistant Secretary of the Air Force
(Acquisition).
The
directors of the defense agencies have been delegated authority to act as
senior procurement executive for their respective agencies, except for such
actions that by terms of statute, or any delegation, must be exercised by the
Under Secretary of Defense (Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics).
“Tiered
evaluation of offers,” also known as “cascading evaluation of offers,” means a
procedure used in negotiated acquisitions, when market research is inconclusive
for justifying limiting competition to small business concerns, whereby the
contracting officer—
(1)
Solicits and receives offers from both small and other than small
business concerns;
(2)
Establishes a tiered or cascading order of precedence for evaluating
offers that is specified in the solicitation; and
(3)
If no award can be made at the first tier, evaluates offers at the next
lower tier, until award can be made.