[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 48, Volume 4]

[Revised as of October 1, 2006]

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

[CITE: 48CFR370.502]



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            TITLE 48--FEDERAL ACQUISITION REGULATIONS SYSTEM

 

                  CHAPTER 3--HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

 

PART 370_SPECIAL PROGRAMS AFFECTING ACQUISITION--Table of Contents

 

           Subpart 370.5_Acquisitions Under the Buy Indian Act

 

Sec. 370.502  Definitions.



    Buy Indian contract means any contract involving activities covered 

by the Buy Indian Act that is negotiated under the provisions of 41 

U.S.C. 252(c) and 25 U.S.C. 47 between an Indian firm and a contracting 

officer representing the Indian Health Service.

    Indian means a member of any tribe, pueblo, band, group, village or 

community that is recognized by the Secretary of the Interior as being 

Indian or any individual or group of individuals that is recognized by 

the Secretary of the Interior or the Secretary of Health and Human 

Services. The Secretary of Health and Human Services in making 

determinations may take into account the determination of the tribe with 

which affiliation is claimed.

    Indian firm means a sole enterprise, partnership, corporation, or 

other type of business organization owned, controlled, and operated by 

one or more Indians (including, for the purpose of sections 301 and 302 

of Public Law 94-437, former or currently federally recognized Indian 

tribes in the State of New York) or by an Indian firm; or a nonprofit 

firm organized for the benefit of Indians and controlled by Indians (see 

370.503(a)).

    Product of Indian industry means anything produced by Indians 

through physical labor or by intellectual effort involving the use and 

application of skills by them.