[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: 48CFR35.017-2]



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            TITLE 48--FEDERAL ACQUISITION REGULATIONS SYSTEM

 

                CHAPTER 1--FEDERAL ACQUISITION REGULATION

 

PART 35_RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CONTRACTING--Table of Contents

 

Sec. 35.017-2  Establishing or changing an FFRDC.



    To establish an FFRDC, or change its basic purpose and mission, the 

sponsor shall ensure the following:

    (a) Existing alternative sources for satisfying agency requirements 

cannot effectively meet the special research or development needs.

    (b) The notices required for publication (see 5.205(b)) are placed 

as required.

    (c) There is sufficient Government expertise available to adequately 

and objectively evaluate the work to be performed by the FFRDC.

    (d) The Executive Office of the President, Office of Science and 

Technology Policy, Washington, DC 20506, is notified.

    (e) Controls are established to ensure that the costs of the 

services being provided to the Government are reasonable.

    (f) The basic purpose and mission of the FFRDC is stated clearly 

enough to enable differentiation between work which should be performed 

by the FFRDC and that which should be performed by non-FFRDC's.

    (g) A reasonable continuity in the level of support to the FFRDC is 

maintained, consistent with the agency's need for the FFRDC and the 

terms of the sponsoring agreement.

    (h) The FFRDC is operated, managed, or administered by an autonomous 

organization or as an identifiably separate operating unit of a parent 

organization, and is required to operate in



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the public interest, free from organizational conflict of interest, and 

to disclose its affairs (as an FFRDC) to the primary sponsor.

    (i) Quantity prodution or manufacturing is not performed unless 

authorized by legislation.

    (j) Approval is received from the head of the sponsoring agency.



[55 FR 3885, Feb. 5, 1990, as amended at 62 FR 12694, Mar. 17, 1997]