Explanation

This is one of five books which constitute Title 41-Public Contracts and Property Management of the Code of Federal Regulations, revised as of January 1, 1965. These replace the volumes entitled "Title 40 [Vacated; reserved]; Title 41-Public Contracts, Parts 1-1 to 1-17" and "Title 41Public Contracts, Part 2-1 to End, Revised as of January 1, 1964," and become an integral part of the Code of Federal Regulations.

The text in this revision is derived from the latest text of the rules and regulations general and permanent in nature, duly promulgated in the Federal Register on or before December 31, 1964. Source materials from which the text is derived are cited with the text and should be consulted to determine the effective date of any given provision. All dates appearing in the source citations are dates of publication in the Federal Register and should not be construed as effective dates.

Title 41 was reorganized, 24 F.R. 10952, December 30, 1959, to provide for the further development of the Federal Procurement Regulations System established March 10, 1959 (24 F.R. 1933), and for the codification of other Government-wide regulations affecting public contracts. quently Title 41 was expanded to include the Federal Property Managemnet System Regulations, 29 F.R. 13251, September 24, 1964.

The Federal Procurement Regulations System (Subtitle A of this title) consists of (1) the procurement policies and procedures for Government agencies prescribed by the Administrator of General Services (Chapter 1— Federal Procurement Regulations), and (2) regulations of various agencies implementing or supplementing the Federal Procurement Regulations (Chapters 2 through 49). In each of Chapters 2 through 49, the first 49 parts are reserved for regulations implementing the Federal Procurement Regulations and numerically keyed thereto; the remaining parts in these chapters will contain regulations supplementing the Federal Procurement Regulations.

Subtitle B (Chapters 50 through 100) consists of Government-wide regulations affecting procurement policies and procedures which are not included in the Federal Procurement Regulations System. Former Chapters II and III of Title 41, containing regulations of the Division of Public Contracts, Department of Labor, and the Committee on Purchases of Blind-Made Products, respectively, were redesignated Chapters 50 and 51 and assigned to this subtitle.

The Federal Property Management System Regulations (Subtitle C of
this title) consists of (1) the property management policies and procedures
for Government agencies prescribed by the Administrator of General Serv-
ices (Chapter 101-Federal Property Management Regulations), and (2)
regulations of various agencies implementing or supplementing the Federal
Property Management Regulations (Chapters 102 through 149).

Subtitle D (Chapter 150 to End) will consist of other provisions relating
to property management.

The numbering system of Title 41 is unique in the Code of Federal Reg-
ulations, and is especially designed to permit the keying of similar subject
matter throughout the chapters in Subtitles A and C. Chapters are num-
bered in arabic. Each section number is a combination showing to the left
of the decimal point the chapter and part numbers, separated by a dash. To
the right of the decimal point the subpart, section, and subsection numbers
are indicated in that order. Thus, an agency assigned to Chapter 2, and
wishing to implement the cost-plus-a-fixed-fee contract provisions contained
in Chapter 1 Part 1-3, Subpart 1-3.4, section 04, subsection 3 of the Federal
Procurement Regulations (section 1-3.404-3), would assign the section
number "2-3.404-3" to the implementing provisions.

Current regulatory material appearing in the daily issues of the Federal
Register follows the numbering system used herein and serves as a daily
supplement hereto. This book contains the following finding aids; a list
of current CFR volumes; a list of superseded CFR volumes; a table of CFR
titles and chapters; an alphabetical list of CFR subtitles and chapters; and
a table of sections affected which furnishes Federal Register citations to all
changes in Titles 40-41 beginning January 1 1964, including changes which
are no longer in effect.

A compilation of the list of sections affected for the entire Code of Federal
Regulations from January 1, 1949, through December 31, 1963, is pub-
lished in a separate volume entitled "List of Sections Affected, 1949-1963."

A General Explanation of the Code of Federal Regulations appears in
the volume containing Titles 1-4, in the General Index volume, and in the
volume entitled "List of Sections Affected, 1949-1963."

This volume is published pursuant to Part 30 of the regulations of the
Administrative Committee of the Federal Register revised August 18, 1964
(29 F.R. 11790; 1 CFR Part 30), under the authority contained in section
11 of the Federal Register Act (67 Stat. 388, as amended; 44 U.S.C. 311).
The contents of the Federal Register and the Code of Federal Regulations
are by law prima facie evidence of the text of the original documents and
are required to be judicially noticed (49 Stat. 502, 67 Stat. 388; 44 U.S.C.
307, 311). The approved citation of the Code is "CFR". Thus the citation
"41 CFR 18-1.100" refers to section 18-1.100 of this Title.

D. C. EBERHART

January 4, 1965.

Cite this Code CFR thus: 41 CFR 18-1.100