[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 41, Volume 2]

[Revised as of July 1, 2005]

From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access

[CITE: 41CFR101-25.202]



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           TITLE 41--PUBLIC CONTRACTS AND PROPERTY MANAGEMENT

 

          CHAPTER 101--FEDERAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT REGULATIONS

 

PART 101-25_GENERAL--Table of Contents

 

            Subpart 101-25.2_Interagency Purchase Assignments

 

Sec. 101-25.202  Factors to be used to determine assignment of purchase 

responsibility.



    With their consent or upon direction of the President, executive 

agencies will be designated and authorized by the Administrator of 

General Services exclusively, or with specified limited exceptions, to 

make purchases and contracts on a continuing basis for items or item 

groups of articles and services for the executive branch of the 

Government, after due consideration of the following factors, weighted 

as appropriate:

    (a) Current or potential predominant use or consumption by a given 

agency.



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    (b) Availability of funds to carry out the assignment on a 

Government-wide basis or with limited exceptions.

    (c) Specialized personnel, or the nucleus of such personnel, 

regularly employed by the agency, such as scientific, research, and 

operating technicians, especially qualified or experienced in 

specification writing, buying, inspecting, testing, using, installing, 

or operating a particular item or group of items.

    (d) Custodianship and operation of special facilities such as 

research and testing laboratories and inspection or testing stations and 

devices.

    (e) Actual or potential qualifications and experience of agency 

purchasing and contracting officials and their operating units with due 

regard to adequacy of staff.

    (f) Past experience of the agency in performing services to other 

agencies on an informal or joint cooperative basis.

    (g) Relations of the agency with the industry involved.

    (h) Physical proximity of the agency purchasing office or offices to 

the requirement-compiling elements of the principal using agencies.

    (i) Physical location of the agency purchasing office or offices in 

relation to market areas.

    (j) Physical proximity of the agency purchasing offices in relation 

to engineering or design offices, in the interest of speed in processing 

modifications in design and specifications, and also reviewing bids for 

specifications compliance.

    (k) Relative interest of agency heads in receiving the purchase 

assignment and specific requests of agency heads to do the buying of a 

given item or group of items on a Government-wide basis.