[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 48, Volume 5]

[Revised as of October 1, 2006]

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

[CITE: 48CFR711.002-70]



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            TITLE 48--FEDERAL ACQUISITION REGULATIONS SYSTEM

 

             CHAPTER 7--AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT

 

PART 711_DESCRIBING AGENCY NEEDS--Table of Contents

 

Sec. 711.002-70  Metric system waivers.



    (a) Criteria. The FAR 11.002(b) requirement to use the metric system 

of measurement for specifications and quantitative data that are 

incorporated in or required by USAID contracts may be waived when USAID 

determines in writing that such usage is impractical or is likely to 

cause U.S. firms to experience significant inefficiencies or the loss of 

markets.

    (b) Authorization. (1) The USAID Metric Executive (as designated in 

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chapter 323), the contracting officer, and the USAID official who 

approves the procurement requirement are authorized to waive the metric 

requirement for one of the above reasons. The USAID Metric Executive is 

authorized to overrule a decision to grant a waiver, or to nullify a 

blanket waiver made by another approving official so long as a 

contractor's rights under an executed contract are not infringed upon.

    (2) A blanket waiver for a class of multiple transactions may be 

issued for a term not to exceed three years.

    (3) When a waiver will be based upon the adverse impact on U.S. 

firms, clearance from the USAID Metric Executive and the Office of Small 

and Disadvantaged Business Utilization (SDB) will be obtained prior to 

authorization.

    (c) Records and reporting. (1) The basis for each waiver and any 

plans to adapt similar requirements to metric specifications in future 

procurements should be documented in the contract file.

    (2) Each procurement activity will maintain a log of the waivers 

from the metric requirements which are authorized for its procurements. 

The logs shall list the commodity/service being procured, total dollar 

value of the procured item(s), waiver date, authorizing official, basis 

for waiver, and USAID actions that can promote metrication and lessen 

the need for future waivers.

    (3) Within 30 days of the closing of each fiscal year, each USAID/W 

procurement activity and each Mission will submit a copy of the metric 

waiver log for the year to the USAID Metric Executive. (Mission logs are 

to be consolidated in a Mission report for the procurement activity and 

for the nonprocurement activities maintaining such logs under the USAID 

Metric Transition Plan.) Repetitive purchases of commercially produced 

and marketed items and classes of items may be consolidated in reporting 

procurements that do not exceed $10,000 cumulatively during the 

reporting period.



[57 FR 23321, June 3, 1992, as amended at 59 FR 33446, June 29, 1994. 

Redesignated and amended at 61 FR 39091, July 26, 1996. Redesignated and 

amended at 62 FR 40467, July 29, 1997]