and contracts executed in excess of dollar limitations shown herein or as provided for in paragraph (b) of this section, and §§ 1001.458, 1001.459 and 1001.461, require approval of higher authority. Properly authorized letter contracts do not require manual approval, irrespective of dollar amount, except letter contracts for personal and professional services as described in § 1001.458 (§ 1003.408 of this subchapter).

(1) Commanders of major air commands within the continental United States except AMC and ARDC. Authority is limited to making awards and manually approving contracts involving $100,000 or less except Commander, Military Air Transport Service, who has been authorized to make awards and manually approve contracts involving $350,000 or less. Commanders may delegate authority to manually approve contracts not below the level of a staff officer responsible for procurement within the headquarters of the first echelon of command immediately subordinate to the major air command. Commanders may authorize contracting officers within the major air command to make awards and execute contracts involving $100,000 or less.

NOTE: Reference is made to paragraph 14, AFR 91-5 (Utility Services), concerning review of rate schedules, technical sufficiency, and contract content of utility contracts. The regulation pertains to responsibilities for review of rate schedules, technical sufficiency and contract content only and does not pertain to or restrict contract approval authorities.

(2) Commanders of major oversea commands. Commanders may delegate authority to manually approve contracts not below the level of a staff officer responsible for procurement within the headquarters of the first echelon of command immediately subordinate to the major air command. Commanders may authorize contracting officers within the major air command to make awards and execute contracts involving $100,000 or less.

(3) Air attachés and chiefs of AF foreign missions. Authority is limited to making awards and approving contracts involving $100,000 or less, except Chief, Joint United States Military Group, Spain, who has been authorized to make awards and manually approve contracts involving $1,000,000 or less. May authorize contracting officers, designated

by them, to make awards and execute contracts involving $100,000 or less.

(4) Commander, 2709th AF Vehicle Control Group. Authority is limited to: (i) Making awards and manually approving contracts involving $350,000 or less, and (ii) manually approving contractual instruments which do no more than obligate overruns on cost-plus-afixed-fee contracts. Authority may be redelegated to: (a) Chief, Procurement and Production Division, (b) Deputy Commander during absences of the Commander, and (c) contracting officers under his jurisdiction to make awards and execute contracts involving $30,000 or less, except that production lists or calls under open contracts and orders under provisioning documents for items already on contract may be issued (through administrative contracting officers) to contractors irrespective of dollar amount.

(5) Commanders, air materiel areas and Dayton AF Depot. Authority is limited to: (i) Making awards and manually approving contracts as a result of formal advertising or small business restricted advertising irrespective of dollar amount (authority to approve supplemental agreements amounting to more than $1,000,000 which result from the exercise of an option is excluded), (ii) making negotiated awards and manually approving contracts involving amounts of $1,000,000 or less, and (iii) manually approving contracts which do no more than obligate overruns on costplus-a-fixed-fee contracts. Authority may be redelegated to: (a) Directors of procurement and production, (b) deputy commanders during absences of the commander, (c) Director, USAF Logistic Control Group for amounts of $100,000 or less, and (d) contracting officers under their jurisdiction to make awards and execute contracts involving $30,000 or less, except that production lists or calls under open contracts and orders under provisioning documents for items already on contract may be issued (through administrative contracting officer) to contractors irrespective of dollar amount.

NOTE: The limiting authority up to $30,000 is not applicable to obligating funds previously committed (but not obligated) in the basic contract.

(6) Commanders of separate AMC installations (excludes AMC field procurement activities and air materiel forces) under the direct jurisdiction of

the Commander, AMC. Authority is limited to making awards and manually approving contracts involving $100,000 or less. Commanders may authorize contracting officers under their jurisdiction to make awards and execute contracts involving $30,000 or less.

(7) Commander, ARDC, make awards and manually approve contracts, irrespective of dollar amount, with respect to research and development contracting matters including authority to: (1) Waive bid, payment, performance, or other bonds (other than for construction), (ii) administer patent matters incident to R&D contracts, (iii) approve insurance programs and pension and retirement plans of AF contractors, and (iv) approve repricing actions according to paragraph (b) of this section. authority may be redelegated. A copy of all redelegations by the Commander, ARDC, of any of his research and development procurement authorities will be furnished to the AMC (MCPP). Limitations of the authority are shown below.

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(a) This authority does not apply to procurement initiated by Wright Air Development Center (WADD), except for procurements of research and of armament development using 650 series funds. Procurements initiated by WADD for other than research or armament development in the 650 series (primarily development of experimental aircraft and aeronautical items) will be accomplished by WADD's preparing and forwarding a purchase request to AMC Aeronautical Systems Center, for necessary procurement action.

search (including base procurement) are subject to review by MCPC, Hq AMC, and manual approval by an official duly authorized by the Director of Procurement and Production, Hq AMC.

(e) Manually approve contractual instruments which do no more than obligate overruns on cost-plus-a-fixed-fee contracts.

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(8) Deputy Directors and the Assistant to the Director, of the Directorate of Procurement and Production, AMC. Normally, the authority respect to manually approving tracts, involving $1,000,000 or less, that are subject to manual approval of a duly authorized official of the Directorate of Procurement and Production, Hq AMC, because of limitations on delegated authority, will be exercised by a Deputy Director or the Assistant to the Director, of the Directorate of Procurement and Production, Hq AMC. contracts involving more than $1,000,000 are normally approved by the Director of Procurement and Production, Hq AMC, but in his absence may be approved by one of the Deputy Directors or the Assistant to the Director, or by an individual officially designated as "Acting" in one of the above capacities. For the purpose of the dollar limitations in this section, acquisition cost on any industrial facilities to be furnished under a facilities contract will not be added to the amount of funds being obligated on that contract. Au

(9) Commander, AMC centers. thority is limited to: (i) Making awards manually approving contracts awarded as a result of formal advertising or small business restricted advertising irrespective of dollar amount (authority to approve supplemental agreements amounting to more than $1,000,000 which result from the exercise of an option, is excluded), (ii) making negotiated awards and manually approving contracts (including facilities contracts) of involving amounts $1,000,000 or less, (iii) manually approving contractual instruments which do no more than obligate overruns on cost-plus-a-fixed-fee contracts, (iv) manually approving supplemental agreements for engineering changes (this authority may be used in conjunction with other contractual actions which in themselves in the aggregate do not exceed the delegated dollar limitation without further approval), and (v) making awards and manually approving short form

facilities contracts using MCP 71-663 contract provisions, irrespective of dollar amount. Authority may be redelegated.

(10) Director, Air Force Academy Construction Agency. Make awards and manually approve contracts and modifications thereto for supplies and services involving $350,000 or less. Contracts in excess of $350,000 will be subject to manual approval by duly authorized approving officials of the Directorate of Procurement and Production, Hq AMC. Contracting officers of the Air Force Academy Construction Agency are authorized to make awards and manually execute contracts and modifications thereto involving $30,000 or less, without approval of higher authority, subject to such limitations as may be imposed by the Director, Air Force Academy Construction Agency.

(11) Commanders and deputy commanders, air materiel forces, for amounts of $350,000 or less, with power of redelegation to not below the level of a staff officer responsible for procurement within the headquarters of the first echelon of command immediately subordinate to the air materiel force. Contracting officers, under the jurisdiction of the air materiel force, may be authorized to make awards and execute contracts involving $100,000 or less. Administrative contracting officers under the jurisdiction of the air materiel force may be authorized to exercise the authority described in subparagraph (12) of this paragraph.

(12) Administrative contracting officers. Authority is limited to: (i) Pricing and, where a price redetermination clause is applicable, repricing orders against Basic Ordering Agreements, and executing documents establishing such initial or revised prices after review and approval, subject to the requirements of paragraph (b) of this section; (ii) pric$ ing (but not repricing, if applicable) support items procured under a provisioning document, and executing contractual $documents establishing such prices (estimated cost and fee) after review and approval; (iii) executing orders for supplies and services pursuant to the terms of a contract that authorizes such action; (iv) issuing POODS to obligate other Services' funds previously committed when necessary to cover obligations arising from authorized contractual actions; (v) executing supplemental agreements for interim refunds and revised

billing prices and (vi) executing authorized storage agreements.

(13) With respect to § 1001.453 (j), the Director of Procurement and Production, Hq AFLC, has delegated to the commanders of all major air commands (except AFSC) and the commanders of the first echelon of command immediately subordinate to Hq AFLC; the Deputy Chief of Staff, Procurement and Production, Hq AFSC, has delegated to the commanders of the first echelon of command immediately subordinate to Hq AFSC, authority to ratify any transaction involving $2,500 or less. Such delegations by the Director of Procurement and Production, Hq AFLC, to major air commanders permit further redelegation of this authority to the DCS/ materiel or other comparable office within the major air command headquarters. In no event will such authority be redelegated to contracting officers at any level.

(b) All repricing actions, including but not limited to those under incentive type contracts, FPR-E, and old Form III's and IV's (but excluding those under contracts with escalation clauses) require manual approval as set forth below.

(1) The Director of Procurement and Production, Hq AMC, has limited the authority granted to Commander, ARDC, and AMC activities to execute and manually approve supplemental agreements resulting from repricing actions.

(i) This limitation provides that when the gross redeterminable amount is in excess of $1,000,000, the repricing action whether involving an increase or decrease will be reviewed by Office of the Procurement Committee (MCPC), Hq AMC, and manually approved by a duly authorized approving official within the Directorate of Procurement and Production, Hq AMC, according to paragraph (a) (8) of this section. The term "gross redeterminable amount" is defined as the maximum amount expendable under the contract and subject to the current repricing action.

(ii) When the gross redeterminable amount subject to current repricing action is not in excess of $1,000,000 regardless of the amount of increase or decrease brought about by the repricing action, manual approval is delegated to:

(a) Commanders, air materiel areas and Dayton AF Depot with power of redelegation to no lower than the director of procurement and production.

(b) Commander, ARDC, with power of redelegation.

(c) Commander and Deputy Commander, AMC centers, with power of redelegation.

(d) Commanders, air materiel forces with power of redelegation to no lower than the director of procurement and production in the first echelon of command immediately subordinate to the air materiel force, except that an increase in price in excess of $350,000 will be reviewed by MCPC, Hq AMC, and manually approved according to paragraph (a) (8) of this section.

(e) Commander, 2709th AF Vehicle Control Group, with power of redelegation to no lower than the Chief, Procurement and Production Division, except that an increase in price in excess of $350,000 will be reviewed by MCPC, Hq AMC, and manually approved by a duly authorized approving official within the Directorate of Procurement and Production, Hq AMC.

[26 F.R. 12332, Dec. 27, 1961, as amended at 27 F.R. 1611, Feb. 21, 1962; 27 F.R. 9915, Oct. 9, 1962; 27 F.R. 11760, Nov. 29, 1962; 28 F.R. 2271, Mar. 8, 1963; 28 F.R. 8142, Aug. 8, 1963; 28 F.R. 14315, Dec. 27, 1963; 29 F.R. 4094, Mar. 28, 1964; 29 F.R. 4911, Apr. 8, 1964; 29 F.R. 11591, Aug. 13, 1964; 29 F.R. 15257, Nov. 13, 1964]

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Manual approval of tracts for services of experts and consultants.

(a) Prior approval in the form of findings and determinations personally signed by the Secretary are required for contracts for the services of experts and consultants entered into by authority of Public Law 600 (79th Congress), act of August 2, 1946, section 15 (60 Stat. 810; 5 U.S.C. 55a), and the current implementing appropriation acts. If the Secretary has made the necessary findings required by law, he may direct others to manually approve contracts for such services. In his findings and determinations made in support of the contracts, the Secretary generally includes a statement that, by his direction, the contracts will be approved by the Commander, AMC, or his designee.

(b) Except for the particular classes covered in § 1001.459, contracts described in this section may be approved by the following persons pursuant to designations by the Commander, AMC;

(1) Director and Deputy Directors of Procurement and Production, Hq AMC.

(2) Commander, ARDC, or his designee for contracts entered into by ARDC. Designees of the Commander, ARDC, may not be other than a staff officer responsible for procurement within Hq ARDC, or within the headquarters of the first echelon of command immediately subordinate thereto.

[26 F.R. 12334, Dec. 27, 1961]

§ 1001.459 Manual approval of architect-engineer contracts.

(a) The Commander, AMC, has been authorized to review and approve contracts involving $1,000,000 or less for architectural and engineering services when findings and determinations authorizing such contracts have been made by the Secretary. Except as otherwise authorized, the authority applies only to contracts written according to the format contained in Subpart QQ, Part 1007 of this chapter. Use of letter contracts is not authorized except as indicated in paragraph (b)(1)(ii) of this section.

(b) The authority described in paragraph (a) of this section has been delegated by the Commander, AMC, to the Director of Procurement and Production, Hq AMC, who has further delegated the authority, subject to limitations shown, to the following:

(1) For contracts involving $1,000,000: (i) Commander in Chief, United States Air Force, Europe; Commander in Chief, Pacific Air Force; Commander, Alaska Air Command; and Commander, Caribbean Air Command; with power of redelegation to the vice commander and a major command staff officer responsible for procurement (not below the director of procurement within the major command headquarters). Commanders and vice commanders, and the major command staff officer responsible for procurement may further redelegate this authority to the commander of any AF base under their jurisdiction for contracts involving $5,000 or less.

(ii) Commander and Deputy Commander, AMC Ballistic Missiles Center (includes letter contracts).

(2) For contracts involving $500,000 or less that are authorized by an individual findings and determination, and for contracts involving $100,000 or less that are authorized by a blanket findings and determination:

(i) Commanders of major air commands, other than Air Materiel Command and those commands set forth in

subparagraph (1)(i) of this paragraph, with power of redelegation to the vice commander and a major command staff E officer responsible for procurement (not - below the director of procurement within the major command headquarters). Commanders and vice commanders, and the major command staff officer responsible for procurement may further redelegate this authority to the Commander of any AF base under their jurisdiction for contracts involving $5,000 or less, except that Strategic Air Command may also redelegate to the Commander, 16th Air Force, for contracts involving $50,000 or less.

(ii) Commander and Deputy Commander, AMC Aeronautical Systems Center and AMC Electronic Systems : Center.

(iii) Commanders and deputy commanders, air materiel areas.

t (iv) Commander and deputy commander, Dayton AF Depot.

(v) Commanders and deputy commanders, air materiel forces.

(3) Chief, Joint U.S. Military Group, Spain, for contracts involving $50,000 or less.

(4) For contracts involving $5,000 or less:

(i) Commander and Deputy Commander, 2709th AF Vehicle Control Group.

(ii) Commanders of activities subordinate to an air materiel force.

(iii) Commander,

Air Force Base.

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[26 FR. 1233, Dec. 27, 1961]

§ 1001.460 Priorities authority; DO and DX ratings; allotments, and rescheduling deliveries.

(a) The Commander, AMC has been delegated authority as described below with respect to: (1) DO rating program, (2) DX rating program for contracts and orders identifiable to programs of the highest national priority, and (3) allotting and rescheduling deliveries. These authorities are to be exercised within the limits of such allocation determinations or other quantitative restrictions as may be established from time to time by proper authority (see 1.307 of this title). Each person who redelegates the authority will maintain a record of such redelegation and limits placed thereon.

(i) Authority to apply or assign the right to apply DO and DX ratings to contracts and delivery orders to meet DOD

programs authorized for priorities support by the Office of Emergency Planning or designated by OEP as eligible for priorities support through the Department of Defense.

(ii) Authority to apply or assign the right to apply DO and DX ratings to certain prime or subcontractors on orders for delivery of production equipment specifically required to support authorized programs of the Department of Defense or of such other specifically designated programs.

(iii) Authority to apply or assign the right to apply DO and DX ratings to certain contractors on orders for delivery of construction equipment for use on construction in Alaska, Hawaii, or outside the United States.

(iv) Authority to make allotments of controlled materials and to apply or assign to others the right to apply allotment numbers to ratable contracts and delivery orders within the allotment jurisdiction of the Department of Defense.

(v) Reschedule deliveries of materials which are required in support of the Aircraft (A1) program and the AF portion of the Missiles (A2) program. Such authority is limited to rescheduling deliveries on rated orders or authorized controlled materials orders which: (a) Bear the designated program identifications, and (b) were issued by or pursuant to the authority of the delegate, or, if not, that the rescheduling is requested or concurred in by the department or associated agency under whose authority they were issued. Rescheduling of delivery may be directed only if it requires no change in the production schedule of the person making the delivery.

(vi) Administer the DMS Audit Program of Selected Airframe and Aircraft Component Plants assigned to DOD under the Department of Defense-Department of Commerce Interagency Compliance Agreement.

(b) The Commander, AFLC and the Commander, AFSC have redelegated through their respective procurement (and production) directors the authority described in paragraph (a) (3) (1) through (iii) of this section to and through successive echelons of command to all contracting officers of the Air Force, including procuring and administrative contracting officers.

(c) Authorities described in paragraph (a) (3) (iv) through (vi) of this section