§ 806.605a Indefinite quantity contracts executed by various technical services. In the succeeding sections there is set forth information with respect to certain indefinite quantity contracts executed by various technical services under which all of the technical services are obliged to purchase their requirements. However, when it appears to his satisfaction that an item contracted for under an indefinite quantity contract was not purchased under such contract because the necessity of doing so was overlooked, the chief of the technical service which executed the indefinite quantity contract may ratify the purchase. This will be done, however, only where it appears that the oversight represents an isolated instance and not a continued course of neglect. A statement should be presented to the chief of the technical service setting forth all the facts, including the contract price paid as compared to that payable under the indefinite quantity contract and all facts bearing upon the failure to purchase under the indefinite quantity contract.

§ 806.605b Indefinite quantity contract for safety glass. As of April 1, 1945, the Ordnance Department has executed an indefinite quantity contract for safety glass in ordnance vehicles. Pertinent excerpts from this contract are set forth in Ordnance Procurement Circular No. 97-45, and in paragraph 6,068.2 of Ordnance Procurement Instructions, as amended.

§ 806.605c Standard Master Ship Repair Contract.

§ 806.605c-1 A form of contract for the repair and alteration of vessels has been approved as a standard form of contract and assigned the number "TC Form No. 103" (see § 803.304–1 (c)). TC Form No. 103 is the War Department version of a master contract for the repair and alteration of vessels devised jointly by the War Department, the Navy Department and the War Shipping Administration.

§ 806.605c-2 When executed with a particular contractor, TC Form No. 103 establishes the basis upon which that contractor will perform such repair and alteration work on vessels within the jurisdiction of the War Department as may be assigned to the contractor by means of job orders issued pursuant to the contract. All such work will be assigned to the contractor by means of job

orders under the contract, unless the Chief of Transportation or his authorized representative grants prior approval to the use of a different method of contracting.

§ 806.605c-3 Colonel Harold S. Wright, T. C., Commanding Officer, Army War Ship Repair Contract Agency, 25 Broad Street, New York 4, N. Y. (see Memorandum No. S55-15-43, 7 June 1943, creating this Agency), has been appointed contracting officer for the execution and administration of contracts written on TC Form 103, and authority has been delegated to the Chief of Transportation to appoint a successor and additional contracting officers for the same purpose. Contracts on TC Form No. 103 will be executed only by contracting offcers appointed pursuant to this section.

§ 806.605c-4 Contracting officers appointed pursuant to § 806.605c-3 above have authority to designate officers and civilian officials of the War Department as their representatives and to empower such representatives to take all action under particular contracts or groups of contracts on TC Form No. 103 which could lawfully be taken thereunder by the contracting officers themselves, including the power to issue and administer job orders.

§ 806.605c-5 Colonel Wright has designated the following as his representatives, with power to issue and administer job orders, subject to various conditions and limitations:

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(a) The officer certified for the purpose by or under the direction of the Commanding General of each Service Command, the Commanding General, Army Air Forces, and the Chief of Engineers, for each installation under their respective commands.

(b) The officer certified for the purpose by the commanding officer of each port of embarkation and by each Zone and District Transportation Officer. Certification of a contracting officer's representative may be made by name or official title. Certification is effective upon acknowledgment of receipt by Colonel Wright.

§ 806.605c-6 From time to time the Chief of Transportation will cause to be published information concerning the contracts on TC Form No. 103 which have been executed for the War Department, including the contract numbers, names

and addresses of contractors, location of shipyards, contract periods, "billing rates," etc. The publications will also name the contracting officer's representatives who have been authorized to issue job orders under the contracts, and set forth instructions applicable to the issuance and administration of job orders.

§ 806.605c-7 A Joint Board, consisting of one representative each for the Secretary of War, the Secretary of the Navy and the War Shipping Administrator, has been constituted pursuant to the provisions of Article 5, subparagraphs (b) (ii) and (d) of TC Form No. 103 for the purpose of making recommendations as set forth in said subparagraphs.

§ 806.605c-8 The contracting officer for the War Department shall act jointly

with the contracting officers for the Navy Department and War Shipping Administration to formulate policies and obtain uniformity of interpretation, administration and billing rates.

§ 806.605d Indefinite quantity contracts executed by the Office of The Quartermaster General. The tabulation set forth below contains certain information with respect to all indefinite quantity contracts executed by the Office of The Quartermaster General, which are applicable to purchases made by activities outside the jurisdiction of The Quartermaster General. More complete information as to these contracts is contained in the War Department Supply Bulletins referred to in the tabulation. These Supply Bulletins are available at Adjutant General Depots.

Continental United States and its possessions.

Colgate Creek-Highlandtown, P. O., Baltimore, Md.

W 28-021-qm-35736. The National Cash

Register Co., Main and K Sts., Dayton, Ohio.

W 44-109-qm-610... The Texas

War Department.

stations.

All War Department activities within continental United States (not including Alaska) for domestic consumption, exclusive of maneuvers ordered by Army Ground Force Headquarters.

1 The basic contracts for greases and gear lubricants are contracts of Treasury Department, Procurement Division. It is expected that the Ink, duplicating machine contract, and Change No. 1 thereto, will be extended to 30 June 1946.

agency to perform such procurement or (c) entrust such performance to some other agency, or (d) avail itself in part of any of these recourses, according as it may deem desirable in the interest of economy and efficiency. When the Procurement Division has prescribed the manner of procurement of any thing, no agency shall thereafter procure • such thing in any manner other than so prescribed. The execution of work now performed by the Corps of Engineers of the Army shall remain with said corps, subject to the responsibilities herein vested in the Procurement Division.

Under date of April 12, 1935 there was issued by the Procurement Division, Treasury Department, with the approval of the President, a regulation which provides in part as follows:

Those supplies of which the procurement is to be controlled (by the Procurement Division) will be listed and communicated to the executive departments as may be necessary, and thereafter no individual procurement

of these articles shall take place except in emergencies.

§ 806.606-2 Requirement. Purchases will be made from contracts of the Procurement Division, Treasury Department (General Schedule of Supplies), when so directed by the chief of the technical service concerned or when required by the terms of the contracts unless the item can not be furnished under such contracts within the time that the item is required by the technical service concerned.

§ 806.606-3 Emergency purchases. In any case where, pursuant to the provisions of § 806.606-2, purchases of an item listed in the General Schedule of Supplies is not made under a General Schedule of Supplies contract because the item could not be furnished under such a contract within the time that the item was required, the voucher submitted to the disbursing officer for payment shall contain a finding that:

(a) The purchase was justified because the item could not be furnished under the General Schedule of Supplies Contract within the time in which the item was required; and

(b) The purchase outside the General Schedule of Supplies Contract was necessary to facilitate the prosecution of the war and was authorized under the First War Powers Act and Executive Order No. 9001.

Such finding shall be final and conclusive. The authority to make such a finding is vested in the chiefs of the technical services and may be delegated to any officer or civilian official under their jurisdiction, including the contracting officer. It is to be emphasized that this authority is only to be used when necessary, and that it should not be construed to authorize disregard of the requirements of the General Schedule of Supplies. In all cases, the finding should consist of more than a mere conclusion. It should set forth the specific reasons why the time element made the purchase necessary.

§ 806.606-4 Procedure. (a) Chiefs of technical services (and commanding generals of service commands) are responsible for advising contracting officers under their jurisdiction as to the terms and conditions of all mandatory General Schedule of Supplies contracts. The commanding generals of the service commands should assume this responsibility as promptly as is practicable. In the past, the schedules have been dis