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Subpart 1803.6--Contracts with Government Employees or Organizations Owned or Controlled by Them
Subpart 1803.8--Limitation on the Payment of Funds to Influence Federal Transactions
Subpart 1803.9 – Contractor Employee Whistleblower Protections
Subpart 1803.70--IG Hotline Posters
personnel. 1803.104 Procurement integrity. 1803.104-1 Definitions. 1803.104-4 Disclosure, protection, and marking of contractor bid or proposal
information and source selection information. 1803.104-7 Violations or possible violations.
1803.104-70 Restrictions on NASA personnel participating in proposal
SUBPART 1803.2 CONTRACTOR GRATUITIES TOGOVERNMENT PERSONNEL 1803.203 Reporting suspected violations of the Gratuities clause.
VIOLATIONS 1803.303 Reporting suspected antitrust violations.
SUBPART 1803.5 OTHER IMPROPER BUSINESS PRACTICES 1803.502 Subcontractor kickbacks.
CONTROLLED BY THEM 1803.602 Exceptions.
SUBPART 1803.7 VOIDING AND RESCINDING CONTRACTS 1803.704 Policy. 1803.705 Procedures.
INFLUENCE FEDERAL TRANSACTIONS 1803.804 Policy. 1803.806 Processing suspected violations.
SUBPART 1803.70 IG HOTLINE POSTERS 1803.7000 Policy. 1803.7001 Contract clause.
The statutory Federal conflict of interest prohibitions codified at 18 U.S.C. section 208 and their application to NASA personnel are discussed in the Standards of Ethical Conduct for Employees of the Executive Branch,
5 CFR Parts 2635, Subpart D, and 2540. All NASA personnel involved in acquisitions shall become familiar with these statutory prohibitions. In addition to criminal penalties, the statutes provide that transactions entered into in violation of these prohibitions are voidable (18 U.S.C. section 218). The regulatory impartiality restrictions issued by the U.S. Office of Government Ethics (OGE) are provided in 5 CFR Part 2635, Subpart E. All NASA personal involved in acquisitions shall become familiar with these regulatory restrictions.
(i) Personnel participating in source evaluation board (SEB) procedures (see
1815.370) or personnel evaluating an offeror's or bidder's technical or cost proposal under other competitive procedures, and personnel evaluating protests. (ii) Personnel assigned to the contracting office. (iii) The initiator of the procurement request (to include the official having principal technical cognizance over the requirement). (iv) Small business specialists. (v) Personnel assigned to counsel's office. (vi) Personnel assigned to the Defense Contract Audit Agency and contract administration offices of the Department of Defense. (vii) Personnel responsible for the review and approval of documents in accordance with the Master Buy Plan Procedure in
Subpart 1807.71. (viii) Other Government employees authorized by the contracting officer. (ix) Supervisors, at any level, of the personnel listed in paragraphs 1803.104-4(a)(i) through (viii). (x) Duly designated ombudsman.
(c)(i) The originator of information that may be source selection information shall consult with the contracting officer or the procurement officer, who shall determine whether the information is source selection information. NASA personnel responsible for preparing source selection information as defined in
FAR 2.101 shall assure that the material is marked with the legend in
FAR 3.104-4(c) at the time the material is prepared. (ii) Unless marked with the legend "SOURCE SELECTION INFORMATION — SEE FAR 2.101 and 3.104," draft specifications, purchase descriptions, and statements of work are not considered source selection information and may be released during a market survey in order to determine the capabilities of potential competitive sources (see
FAR Subpart 7.1). All documents, once released, must remain available to the public until the conclusion of the acquisition.
(a)(1) The Procurement Officer is the individual designated to receive the contracting officer's report of violations. (b) The head of the contracting activity (HCA) or designee shall refer all information describing an actual or possible violation to the installation's counsel and inspector general staff and to the Assistant Administrator for Procurement. (f) When the HCA or designee determines that award is justified by urgent and compelling circumstances or is otherwise in the interest of the Government, then that official shall submit a copy of the determination to the Assistant Administrator for Procurement simultaneous with transmittal to the Administrator.
For acquisitions of any dollar value, an employee may not participate in a proposal evaluation or selection decision if the employee would not be in compliance with statutory U.S. Government ethics requirements, the impartiality regulations issued by U.S. Office of Government Ethics (OGE) at 5 CFR 2635, Subpart E, or any other applicable U.S. Government ethics requirements. Participants should contact a NASA ethics official in their local Chief Counsel’s office, or in the case of NASA Headquarters an ethics official in the Office of General Counsel, for advice on the application of these provisions.
Any suspected violations of the clause at
FAR 52.203-3, Gratuities, shall be reported to the installation's Office of Inspector General.
(b)(i) When offers are received that, in the opinion of the contracting officer, indicate possible antitrust violations, the contracting officer shall report the circumstances to the General Counsel, NASA Headquarters, through the Office of Procurement Program Operations Division. Reports should not be submitted automatically but only when there is reason to believe the offers may not have been arrived at independently. These reports shall be submitted with conformed copies of bids or proposals, contract documents, and other supporting data, and shall set forth— (A) The noncompetitive pattern or situation under consideration; (B) Purchase experience in the same product or service for a reasonable period (one or more years) preceding receipt of the offers under consideration, including unit and total contract prices and abstracts of bids; (C) Community of financial interest among offerors, insofar as it is known; (D) The extent, if any, to which specification requirements or patents restrict competition; (E) Any information available about the pricing system employed in offers believed to reflect noncompetitive practices; and (F) Any other pertinent information. (ii) Evidence of practices that, in the opinion of the General Counsel, NASA Headquarters, may violate the antitrust laws shall be forwarded to the Attorney General of the United States (see
FAR 3.303).
Contracting officers shall report suspected violations of the Anti-Kickback Act in accordance with
1809.470.
The Assistant Administrator for Procurement has been delegated the authority to authorize an exception to the policy in
FAR 3.601. The Assistant Administrator for Procurement has redelegated this authority to the heads of contracting activities (HCAs) for individual actions in the aggregate of $100,000 and below, inclusive of follow-on acquisitions, with concurrence by the HCA's Office of Chief Counsel. All requests above the HCA's authority shall be forwarded to the Assistant Administrator for Procurement for approval.
(a) The Assistant Administrator for Procurement has been delegated authority to void or rescind contracts when there is a final conviction for violation of 18 U.S.C. 201-224 (Bribery, Graft and Conflicts of Interest) relating to them.
(a) Procurement officers shall make reports to the Assistant Administrator for Procurement. The Assistant Administrator for Procurement is responsible for the actions, notices, and decisions required by
FAR 3.705(c), (d), and (e).
(b) Procurement officers shall forward one copy of each Disclosure of Lobbying Activities (SF-LLL) furnished pursuant to
FAR 3.803 to the Office of Procurement Program Operations Division. The original shall be retained in the contract file. Forms shall be submitted semi-annually by April 15th for the six-month period ending March 31st, and by October 15th for the period ending September 30th.
The Assistant Administrator for Procurement is the designated official to whom suspected violations of the Act shall be referred. The suspected violations should be reported through the cognizant Program Operations Division analyst.
Abuse of authority, as used in this subpart, means an arbitrary and capricious exercise of authority that is inconsistent with the mission of NASA or the successful performance of a NASA contract.
(c) The NASA Inspector General –
(d) Any person adversely affected or aggrieved by an order issued by the head of the Agency in accordance with 10 U.S.C. 2409 may obtain judicial review of the order's conformance with the law, and the implementing regulation, in the United States Court of Appeals for a
circuit in which the reprisal is alleged in the order to have occurred. No petition seeking such review may be filed more than 60 days after issuance of the order by the head of the agency or designee. Review shall conform to chapter 7 of title 5, Unites States Code. Filing such an appeal shall not act to stay the enforcement of the order by the head of an agency, unless a stay is specifically entered by the court.