[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: 48CFR17.602]



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            TITLE 48--FEDERAL ACQUISITION REGULATIONS SYSTEM

 

                CHAPTER 1--FEDERAL ACQUISITION REGULATION

 

PART 17_SPECIAL CONTRACTING METHODS--Table of Contents

 

             Subpart 17.6_Management and Operating Contracts

 

Sec. 17.602  Policy.



    (a) Heads of agencies, with requisite statutory authority, may 

determine in writing to authorize contracting officers to enter into or 

renew any management and operating contract in accordance with the 

agency's statutory authority, or the Competition in Contracting Act of 

1984, and the agency's regulations governing such contracts. This 

authority shall not be delegated. Every contract so authorized shall 

show its authorization upon its face.

    (b) Agencies may authorize management and operating contracts only 

in a manner consistent with the guidance of this subpart and only if 

they are consistent with the situations described in 17.604.

    (c) Within 2 years of the effective date of this regulation, 

agencies shall review their current contractual arrangements in the 

light of the guidance of this subpart, in order to (1) identify, modify 

as necessary, and authorize management and operating contracts and (2) 

modify as necessary or terminate contracts not so identified and 

authorized, except that any contract with less than 4 years remaining as 

of the effective date of this regulation need not be terminated, nor 

need it be identified, modified, or authorized unless it is renewed or 

its terms are substantially renegotiated.



[48 FR 42163, Sept. 19, 1983, as amended at 50 FR 52434, Dec. 23, 1985]