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Matched Legal Cases: ['art 605', 'ART 605', 'art 605', 'art 605', 'art 605', 'art 605', 'art 6', 'art 606']

Title 48 → Chapter 6 → Subchapter B → Part 605
PART 605—PUBLICIZING CONTRACT ACTIONS
Subpart 605.2—Synopses of Proposed Contract Actions
Subpart 605.3—Synopses of Contract Awards
Subpart 605.4—Release of Information
Subpart 605.5—Paid Advertisements
605.502 Authority.
Source: 53 FR 26164, July 11, 1988, unless otherwise noted.
(a) Policy. In accordance with a Determination and Findings issued by the Assistant Secretary of State for Administration, the requirement for advance notices in the Governmentwide point of entry (GPE) for the Department's foreign acquisitions awarded by overseas contracting activities is waived. GPE notices may be published for any acquisition where the contracting officer decides that publication would be in the Department's best interests.
(b) Procedures. Contracting officers at overseas contracting activities are not required to prepare an individual determination and findings to document their decision to waive the GPE notice requirements.
(c) Competition requirements. Nothing in this section waives the requirement to obtain competition as required by FAR part 6 and DOSAR (48 CFR) part 606. Competition, including the use of written solicitation, shall be obtained in all cases to the extent feasible. If there are known U.S. firms or firms with U.S. affiliations in local residence capable of supplying the required supplies or services, the contracting activity shall ensure that those firms are included in the source list for the acquisition.
(d) Policy exclusions. GPE waiver authority does not apply to local guard service contracts exceeding $250,000, or any contracts exceeding $5 million. Local guard service contracts that exceed $250,000 and other contracts that exceed $5 million shall be published in the GPE. Option year prices shall be included when computing the applicability of this threshold.
[60 FR 39662, Aug. 3, 1995, as amended at 64 FR 43621, Aug. 11, 1999; 69 FR 19331, Apr. 13, 2004]
[80 FR 6917, Feb. 9, 2015]
In addition to the information required at FAR 5.207, each notice of a proposed acquisition from only one responsible source shall include descriptions of the specific qualifications or capabilities required to perform the work and the information a potential source must submit.
[53 FR 26164, July 11, 1988, as amended at 69 FR 19331, Apr. 13, 2004]
[59 FR 66755, Dec. 28, 1994, as amended at 64 FR 43621, Aug. 11, 1999; 69 FR 19331, Apr. 13, 2004]
The Procurement Executive is the agency head for the purposes of FAR 5.403.
[59 FR 66755, Dec. 28, 1994, as amended at 72 FR 45695, Aug. 15, 2007]
The Procurement Executive is the agency head's designee for the purposes of FAR 5.404-1(a) and the agency head for the purposes of FAR 5.404-1(b).
[55 FR 5774, Feb. 16, 1990]
(a) For paid advertisements in newspapers within the United States, the head of the contracting activity is the agency head's designee for the purposes of FAR 5.502(a). For acquisitions by overseas posts necessitating paid advertisements in newspapers outside the United States, the head of the contracting activity is the agency's head's designee for the purposes of FAR 5.502(a). When the head of the contracting activity is the contracting officer for the acquisition, no further approvals are necessary.