This subpart establishes the Federal Procurement Regulations System for the codification and publication of uniform policies and procedures applicable to the procurement of personal property and nonpersonal services (includirg construction) by executive agencies, except as limited by the provisions of section 1-1.004 with respect to the Department of Defense. The System includes regulations prescribed by the Administrator of General Services, called the Federal Procurement Regulations (FPR), as well as individual agency procurement regulations which implement and supplement the FPR.

§ 1-1.003 Authority.

The Federal Procurement Regulations System is prescribed by the Administrator of General Services under the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949, and the FPR are developed in cooperation with the procurement agencies and are issued by him under the act or other authority specially cited.

§ 1-1.004 Applicability.

Federal Procurement Regulations apply to all Federal agencies to the extent specified in the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 or in other law. Except for standard Government forms and clauses, Federal Specifications and Standards, and except as directed by the President, Congress, or other authority, these Regulations are not mandatory on Department of Defense. Therefore, the extent of their implementation within

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the Department of Defense and participation in the System will be determined by that Department. The Regulations apply to procurements made within and outside the United States unless otherwise specified.

§ 1-1.005 Exclusions.

Certain Governmentwide policies and procedures which come within the scope of this chapter neverthless may be excluded from Federal Procurement Regulations. These exclusions include the following categories:

(a) Subject matter which bears a security classification.

(b) Policy or procedure which is expected to be effective for a period of less than six months.

(c) Policy or procedure which is being instituted on an experimental basis for a reasonable period.

§ 1-1.006 Issuance.

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Code arrangement.

Federal Procurement Regulations are issued in the Code of Federal Regulations as Chapter I of Title 41, Public Contracts. Succeeding chapters of Title 41 are devoted to implementing and supplementing material developed and issued by particular Federal agencies to govern their procurement activities, as well as regulations of general application to procurement agencies issued by other Federal regulatory agencies, such as the Department of Labor under the WalshHealey Public Contracts Act.

§ 1-1.006-2 Publication.

Federal Procurement Regulations are published (in Title 41) in the daily issue of the FEDERAL REGISTER, in cumulated form in the Code of Federal Regulations, and in separate loose-leaf volume form. § 1-1.006-3 Copies.

Copies of Federal Procurement Regulations in Federal Register and Code of Federal Regulations form may be purchased by Federal agencies and the public, at nominal cost, from the Superintendent of Documents, Government Printing Office, Washington 25, D.C. Copies of Federal Procurement Regulations in loose-leaf volume form may be obtained by Federal agencies from the General Services Administration, in a very limited quantity, and may be purchased by the public from the Superintendent of Documents.