[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: 48CFR33.203]



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            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. 33.203  Applicability.



    (a) Except as specified in paragraph (b) below, this part applies to 

any express or implied contract covered by the Federal Acquisition 

Regulation.

    (b) This subpart does not apply to any contract with (1) a foreign 

government or agency of that government, or (2) an international 

organization or a subsidiary body of that organization, if the agency 

head determines that the application of the Act to the contract would 

not be in the public interest.

    (c) This part applies to all disputes with respect to contracting 

officer decisions on matters arising under or relating to a contract. 

Agency Boards of Contract Appeals (BCA's) authorized under the Act 

continue to have all of the authority they possessed before the Act with 

respect to disputes arising under a contract, as well as authority to 

decide disputes relating to a contract. The clause at 52.233-1, 

Disputes, recognizes the all disputes authority established by the Act 

and states certain requirements and limitations of the Act for the 

guidance of contractors and contracting agencies. The clause is not 

intended to affect the rights and obligations of the parties as provided 

by the Act or to constrain the authority of the statutory agency BCA's 

in the handling and deciding of contractor appeals under the Act.



[48 FR 42349, Sept. 19, 1983. Redesignated and amended at 50 FR 2270, 

Jan. 15, 1985]