ices and the contracting therefor. Public utility services include, but are not limited to, electricity, gas, water, sewerage, drainage, fire and police protection, street lighting and cleaning, and trash and garbage disposal. Telephone and other wired voice communications are covered by § 737.5-2003-3.

(c) Authority to contract for public utility services shall be obtained by submission of a Business Clearance Memorandum to the Commander, Naval Facilities Engineering Command, in such form as he may prescribe. The Business Clearance Memorandum shall set forth the following information:

(1) Name and location of activity; (2) Type of public utility service required;

(3) Estimated annual cost and, if available, a billing analysis for the preceding twelve (12) months showing usage and cost factors;

(4) Name and address of contractor; (5) Copy of contractor's rates, rules, and regulations applicable to the service in question;

(6) A statement concerning the availability of competition;

(7) A requisition citing the appropriation chargeable; and

(8) Such other data pertaining to each type of public utility service as may be prescribed, from time to time, by the Commander, Naval Facilities Engineering Command.

(d) All contracts shall be approved as to legality and form by Counsel for the Naval Facilities Engineering Command Headquarters.

(e) Requests for authority to contract shall be submitted in accordance with procedures established by the Commander, Naval Facilities Engineering Command. These procedures shall be published in NAVSUP Manual, Volume II.

(f) The Commandant, U.S. Marine Corps shall submit to the Commander, Naval Facilities Engineering Command all requests for authority to contract for public utility services required by Marine Corps activities, except that services required by field activities, the annual amount of which does not exceed $2,500, may be procured by the Marine Corps without

reference to the Naval Facilities Engineering Command Headquarters.

(g) A copy of each proposed contract for public utility service at any Government-owned facility operated by a Navy contractor, where the cost of such public utility service is to be reimbursed by the Navy, shall be submitted, prior to execution, by the Systems Command concerned to the Commander, Naval Facilities Engineering Command who shall notify the Systems Command concerned of his approval or directions with respect thereto.

(h) The authority herein conferred upon the Commander, Naval Facilities Engineering Command may be redelegated by him.

Department of the Army, one for the Department of the Navy, and one for the Department of the Air Force. As a result, each operating company and each Military Department will look to the provisions of only one contract in the area served by each operating company. Each such contract, however, will preserve the flexible and efficient administrative arrangements pursuant to which, in the Department of the Navy, orders for facilities and services under such contracts are placed by Departmental or District officers (Navy and Marine) as appropriate.

(b) There is hereby delegated to the Commander, Naval Facilities Engineering Command and to such other persons as may be designated by him the authority to make and execute on behalf of the Department of the Navy (including the U.S. Marine Corps) all contracts for telephone communication facilities and services to be provided in the United States.

(c) Each such contract shall contain a definition of "Contracting Officers" substantially identical with that set out in the Definitions clause contained in § 7.103-1.

(d) Orders under contracts will be placed by authorized representatives of contracting officers as provided herein. Therefore, under such contracts executed by the Commander, Facilities Engineering Command or by a contracting officer of the Naval Facilities Engineering Command, the following shall be considered, pursuant to the Definitions clause of each contract, an "authorized representative of a Contracting Officer acting within the limits of his authority," for the purpose as specified herein:

(1) The Director of Naval Communications, and all officers and civilian employees designated by him, for the purpose of ordering under contracts any of the following communications facilities and services except those included in paragraph (d)(3) of this section:

(i) Leased teletype lines of the Naval Communication System, flight control and weather reporting, or other private line teletype systems including TWX communication service;

(ii) All leased telephone lines not an integral part of purely local telephone systems; and

(iii) Keying, control and photo-radio leased lines.

(2) All officers and civilian employees designated by the Commander, Naval Facilities Engineering Command, for the purposes of ordering under contracts any of the following communication facilities and services except those included in paragraph (d)(3) of this section:

(i) All facilities and services not included in paragraphs (d)(1) (i), (ii), and (iii) of this section, including but not limited to such items as switchboards, instruments, wiring plans, trunk and tie lines, off-premise mileage, individual telephones, non-recurring charges, service connection charges, termination charges, and telephone toll charges.

(ii) Work, whether or not of an engineering, technical or specialized nature, involved in the design, installation, alteration, repair or maintenance of telephone systems and teletypewriter communication facilities, owned in whole or in part by the Government and under the cognizance of the Navy.

(3) The Commandant of the Marine Corps and such officers and civilian employees as may be designated by the Commandant for the purpose of ordering any communication facilities and services required only by the Marine Corps.

(e) With respect to telephone systems owned in whole or in part by the Government and under the cognizance of the Department of the Navy, the Commander, Naval Facilities Engineering Command has cognizance over the design, installation, alteration, repair or maintenance of such systems by Government personnel or provided for by contracts (and orders thereunder) with contractors rather than companies or organizations regularly providing telephone facilities and services, except that the Commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps has cognizance for such purposes with respect to such systems which are under the cognizance of the U.S. Marine Corps.

(f) Nothing in this § 737.5-2003-3 affects procedures for the budgeting, allotting, or fiscal accounting of funds

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(1) Providing funds for the procurement, and administering the assignment and utilization, of all such equipment;

(2) Determining allowance lists and requirements for current and future needs;

(3) Determining what equipment is excess to its needs;

(4) Establishing maintenance and operating procedures for medical and dental equipment contained in specialized types.

(g) The Naval Ship Systems Command shall have the responsibility, in collaboration with each cognizant Systems Command, and Office of the Department of the Navy, for recommending to the Chief of Naval Operations allowances, and changes therein, of automotive vehicles and materials handling equipment for all types of vessels. Such allowances and changes shall become effective upon approval by the Chief of Naval Operations.

(h) Each Systems Command, Bureau and Office of the Department of the Navy shall have the responsibilities listed below with respect to automotive vehicles, construction and materials handling equipment for activities under its management control except as indicated in § 737.5-2005 (d), (e), (f) and (g).

(1) Providing funds for the procurement, and administering the assignment and utilization, of all units except passenger carrying vehicles and ambulances;

(2) Submitting requirements for passenger-carrying vehicles to the Naval Facilities Engineering Command;

(3) Providing funds for maintenance and operation;

(4) Determining requirements for current and future needs;

(5) Establishing allowance lists for all its activities in accordance with the military requirements established by the Chief of Naval Operations;

(6) Determining what equipment is excess to its needs;

and materials handling equipment. (a) This § 733.5-2005 assigns responsibilities and establishes basic policies pertaining to all phases of automotive transportation and all types of automotive, construction, and materials handling equipment. It does not cover automotive, construction, and materials handling equipment in war reserve stocks intended for use at advanced bases or in training exercises.

(b) As used throughout this § 737.52005, the following terms shall have the meanings set forth below:

(1) "Automotive vehicles” means all noncombat, self-propelled vehicles suitable for use on the highway, and all trailers suitable for use in conjunction therewith (It includes trucks, buses, tractors, bus trailers, semi-trailers, all types of passenger vehicles, and all types of power cycles. It does not include bicycles, vehicles designed primarily for use on rails, construction equipment, materials handling equipment, amphibious vehicles, or vehicles (with or without armor) designed for active participation in combat);

(2) "Construction equipment" means all mechanical equipment used in the construction, alteration, or repair of buildings, bridges, roads, or other kinds of real property (It includes pile drivers, power shovels and cranes, road rollers, tractors, scrapers, plows, derricks, street sweepers, sprinkling carts and the like; and portable boilers, pumps and air compressors. It also includes such stationary machines and mechanical apparatus as rock-crushing plants, concrete batching and mixing plants and the like, used exclusively for work connected with the construction and maintenance of public works);

(3) "Materials handling equipment” means all mechanical equipment normally used for materials handling on floors and paved surfaces as fork lift and pallet trucks, warehouse tractors and trailers, stackers, straddle trucks, warehouse cranes, conveyors, and platform trucks; and

(4) "Specialized types" includes radio and electronic vans and trucks, ambulances, bomb handling trucks and trailers, aircraft fueling, crash fire and rescue and salvage units and such other specialized types as are developed by the management control bureaus for their specific use.

(c) The Marine Corps shall provide funds for the procurement, and administer the assignment, utilization, and maintenance, of all equipment covered by this NPD which the Marine Corps may require, except for procurement of ambulances. Procurement of Civil Engineer Support Equipment (CESE) and Materials Handling Equipment at Marine Corps Air Stations is the responsibility of the Marine Corps. All other equipment, except equipment peculiar to the Marine Corps, is the responsibility of the Navy.

(d) The Naval Facilities Engineering Command has the following responsibilities for the Navy with respect to automotive vehicles, construction equipment, and standardized automotive components of specialized types (where specifically indicated, these responsibilities apply also to automotive vehicles and construction equipment used by the Marine Corps):

(1) Providing funds for the procurement, and administering the assignment and utilization, of all passenger carrying vehicles in accordance with the military requirements established by the Chief of Naval Operations;

(2) Establishing and promulgating standards for operation and general utilization;

(3) Preparing and promulgating maintenance standards;

(4) Administering public laws relating to:

(i) Commercial type and school bus operations (including Marine Corps);

(ii) Official use of Governmentowned and operated motor vehicles including passenger cars (applies to