Department-wide procurement objectives. Such issuances will be promulgated in the Departmental Manual.

(c) Instructions necessary to supplement the FPR, Chapter 14, and the Departmental Manual will be issued by the heads of the bureaus and contracting offices, and by their delegates in subordinate offices.

§ 14-1.104 Applicability.

(a) Chapter 14 applies to all purchases and contracts made by any bureau or office of the Department of the Interior for the procurement of personal property and nonpersonal services (including construction). Unless otherwise specified, it applies to purchases and contracts within and outside the United States.

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(b) This chapter shall not be construed or applied in such a way as to impair the exercise of special statutory authority governing the production, sale or exchange of electric energy, processing and sale of helium gas, or the production and sale of water or other products under the saline water program.

§ 14-1.105 Method of issuance.

All Chapter 14 material deemed necessary for business concerns and others interested to understand basic and significant Department of the Interior procurement policies and procedures will be published in the FEDERAL REGISTER. Other related material will be promulgated in the Departmental Manual, and copies of such material will be made available to interested individuals or organizations upon request. § 14-1.106

Exclusions.

(a) Certain Department of the Interior policies and procedures which come within the scope of this chapter may be excluded therefrom when there is justification therefor. These exclusions will include the following categories:

(a) The numbering system used in Chapter 14 conforms to that of the FPR. Thus, a particular procurement policy or procedure will be identified by the same number in Chapter 14 as in FPR, except that the first digit of the number is 1 (FPR) or 14 (Department of the Interior).

(b) Similarly, procedure and instructions which may be issued by the bureaus and offices of the Department of the Interior will be identified by alphabetical designations immediately following the Departmental Code (14), as illustrated below:

14A Office of the Secretary.

Division of Administrative
(Chief Clerk).

Geological Survey.

Bureau of Indian Affairs.

14B

Services

14F

14G

Office of Coal Research.

141

14J

Bureau of Land Management.

(a) The numbering system permits identification of every unit. The first digit represents the chapter assigned to NASA under Title 41 "Public Contracts" followed by a dash. This is followed by the part number (which may be one or more digits) followed by a decimal point. The numbers after the decimal point represent, respectively, the subpart; section (two digits); and, after the dash, subsection; paragraph; subparagraph; and further inferior divisions. For example, this division is called "§ 18-1.103-2" and denotes Chapter 18, Part 1, Subpart 1, Section 03, and Subsection 2.

(b) The numbering of individual sections is not necessarily consecutive and is designed to permit subsequent insertion of additional material where necessary.

§ 18-1.103-3 Cross-referencing.

Certain portions of the NASA Procurement Regulations contain cross-references to ASPR or the FPR, or both, for purposes of guidance or in order to incorporate by reference material in those regulations into the NASA Procurement Regulations. Where amendments are made in ASPR or FPR material which has been cross-referenced, such amendments shall be deemed to become applicable to NASA to the extent indicated in the cross-reference without further action being taken to amend the NASA Procurement Regulations.

§ 18-1.103-4 Citation.

These regulations shall be referred to as the NASA Procurement Regulations. For purposes of brevity, sections of the regulations are informally referred to as "NASA PR" followed by the section number; e.g., "NASA PR 18-1.103-4." Reference to subparts are shown as "NASA PR 18-1.1" and to parts as "this part 18-1" or "part 18-1 of the NASA PR." Formal citations, where required, will in

clude the title and chapter of the Code of Federal Regulations, as "41 CFR 181.103-4." Citations to the Armed Services Procurement Regulation are shown as "ASPR" followed by the paragraph number, as "ASPR 15-205." Citations to the Federal Procurement Regulations are shown as "FPR" followed by the chapter and section number, as "FPR 1-1.201." § 18-1.104-1.108 [Reserved]

§ 18-1.109 Deviations from NASA Procurement Regulations.

§ 18-1.109-1 Description.

(a) A deviation shall be considered to be any of the following:

(1) When a prescribed contract clause is set forth verbatim in NASA Procurement Regulations, use of a contract clause or a schedule provision covering the same subject matter which varies from, or has the effect of altering, the prescribed NASA clause or changing its application.

(2) When a Standard, NASA, or other form is prescribed by NASA regulations, use of any other form for the same purpose.

(3) Alteration of a Standard or NASA form except as authorized by NASA regulations.

(4) When limitations are imposed in NASA procurement regulations upon the use of a contract clause, form, procedure, type of contract, or any other procurement action, the imposition of lesser or greater limitations.

(5) When a policy, procedure, method or practice of conducting procurement actions is prescribed in a NASA procurement regulation, any policy, procedure, method, or practice inconsistent therewith.

(6) When no forms or contract clauses are prescribed for a particular type of contract, use of forms or clauses not previously approved for that type of contract.

(b) The following are not considered deviations:

(1) Provisions or specifications which describe the property or services being procured, or the supplies or material being furnished to a contractor.

(2) Provisions establishing the time, place or method of furnishing or paying for property or services, unless their use has the effect described in paragraph (a) of this § 18-1.109-1.