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Title 48 → Chapter 15 → Subchapter C → Part 1513 |
Title 48: Federal Acquisition Regulations System
Subpart 1513.4—Imprest Fund [Reserved]
Subpart 1513.5—Purchase Orders
1513.505 Purchase order and related forms.Authority: Sec. 205(c), 63 Stat. 390, as amended, 40 U.S.C. 486(c).
Source: 61 FR 57338, Nov. 6, 1996, unless otherwise noted.
This part prescribes EPA policies and procedures for the acquisition of supplies, nonpersonal services, and construction from commercial sources, the aggregate amount of which does not exceed the simplified acquisition threshold.
The program office submitting the procurement request must submit, as a separate attachment, a brief written statement in support of sole source acquisitions exceeding the micro-purchase threshold. The statement must cite one or more of the circumstances in FAR 6.302 and the necessary facts to support each circumstance. Although program offices may not cite the authority in FAR 6.302-7, the public interest may be used as a basis to support a sole source acquisition. If the acquisition has been synopsized as a notice of proposed sole source acquisition, the statement must include the results of the evaluation of responses to the synopsis.
Contracting Officers may use the EPA Form 1900-8, Procurement Request/Order, in lieu of Optional Forms 347 and 348 for individual purchases prepared in accordance with the instructions printed on the reverse thereof (see 1553.213-70).
[61 FR 57338, Nov. 6, 1996. Redesignated at 62 FR 33572, June 20, 1997]
(a) It is the general policy of the Environmental Protection Agency that Contractor or vendor prescribed leases or maintenance agreements for equipment shall not be executed.
(b) The Contracting Officer shall, where appropriate, insert the clause at 1552.213-70, Notice to Suppliers of Equipment, in orders for purchases or leases of automatic data processing equipment, word processing, and similar types of commercially available equipment for which vendors, as a matter of routine commercial practice, have developed their own leases and/or customer service maintenance agreements.