[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 48, Volume 1]

[Revised as of October 1, 2005]

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

[CITE: 48CFR1.601]



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            TITLE 48--FEDERAL ACQUISITION REGULATIONS SYSTEM

 

                CHAPTER 1--FEDERAL ACQUISITION REGULATION

 

PART 1_FEDERAL ACQUISITION REGULATIONS SYSTEM--Table of Contents

 

       Subpart 1.6_Career Development, Contracting Authority, and 

                            Responsibilities

 

Sec. 1.601  General.





    (a) Unless specifically prohibited by another provision of law, 

authority and responsibility to contract for authorized supplies and 

services are vested in the agency head. The agency head may establish 

contracting activities and delegate broad authority to manage the 

agency's contracting functions to heads of such contracting activities. 

Contracts may be entered into and signed on behalf of the Government 

only by contracting officers. In some agencies, a relatively small 

number of high level officials are designated contracting officers 

solely by virtue of their positions. Contracting officers below the 

level of a head of a contracting activity shall be selected and 

appointed under 1.603.

    (b) Agency heads may mutually agree to--

    (1) Assign contracting functions and responsibilities from one 

agency to another; and

    (2) Create joint or combined offices to exercise acquisition 

functions and responsibilities.



[60 FR 49721, Sept. 26, 1995]