Certain Department of State policies and procedures which come within the scope of this chapter nevertheless may be excluded from the DOSPR. 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.

- § 6-1.107 Issuance.

Regulations contained in the DOSPR deemed necessary for business concerns, and others properly interested, to understand basic and significant Department of State procurement policies are published in the Code of Federal Regulations · (CFR) as Chapter 6 of Title 41, Public = Contracts, and are published in issues of = the FEDERAL REGISTER and in separate I loose-leaf volume form.

§ 6-1.108-1 General plan.

The DOSPR conform with the style and arrangement of the FPR.

§ 6-1.108-2 Numbering.

Material in the DOSPR which implements or deviates from related material in the FPR is captioned and numbered to correspond with such material in the FPR, except that while the first digit of the FPR number is 1, the first digit of the DOSPR number is 6. Material in the DOSPR which supplements the FPR will be assigned numbers 50 or above at the part, subpart, section, or subsection at which there is no counterpart ma

The DOSPR will be cited in the same manner as the FPR are cited. Thus, this section, when referred to in divisions of the FPR System, should be cited as "section 6-1.108-3 of this chapter." When this section is referred to formally in official documents, such as legal briefs, it should be cited as "41 CFR 6-1.108-3." Any section of the DOSPR may be informally identified, for purposes of brevity, as "DOSPR" followed by the section number, such as "DOSPR 6-1.108-3."

§ 6-1.109 Control of deviations.

In the interest of establishing and maintaining uniformity to the greatest extent feasible, deviations from the FPR System shall be kept to a minimum and controlled as follows:

(a) Requests for deviations from the FPR and from the DOSPR, in individual cases and in classes of cases, shall be forwarded to the Department by operations memorandum, subject: Supplies and Equipment or Buildings, as appropriate. A statement setting forth the nature of the deviation and the reasons for the special action sought shall be inIcluded with the request, and a copy thereof shall be included in the contract file.

(b) Deviations from the FPR and the DOSPR in individual cases, and from the DOSPR in classes of cases, may be authorized by the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Operations or his designee, or the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Foreign Buildings or his designee, as appropriate.

(c) Deviations from the FPR in classes of cases will be considered jointly by the Department of State and the General Services Administration (GSA) unless, in the considered judgment of the Assistant Secretary for Administration and with due regard to the objective of uniformity, circumstances preclude such effort. In such case the Assistant Secretary for Administration will approve such class deviations as he determines necessary and will notify GSA of such action.