[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: 48CFR33.210]



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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. 33.210  Contracting officer's authority.



    Except as provided in this section, contracting officers are 

authorized, within any specific limitations of their warrants, to decide 

or resolve all claims arising under or relating to a contract subject to 

the Act. In accordance with agency policies and 33.214, contracting 

officers are authorized to use ADR procedures to resolve claims. The 

authority to decide or resolve claims does not extend to--

    (a) A claim or dispute for penalties or forfeitures prescribed by 

statute or regulation that another Federal agency is specifically 

authorized to administer, settle, or determine; or

    (b) The settlement, compromise, payment or adjustment of any claim 

involving fraud.



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

Jan. 15, 1985; 51 FR 36972, Oct. 16, 1986; 59 FR 11381, Mar. 10, 1994]