Action brief · USC-17

Use simplified purchasing and micro-purchases, with special emergency flexibility

Objective

Bring a prototype into use

Family / instrument

Acquisition, transition and contract finance · Simplified and emergency purchasing

Statute

Authority holder

Head of the procuring agency and authorized contracting or purchasing officials

Executor · routing lead

Authorized component contracting, agreements, or personnel office; assignment is illustrative

Recorded eligibility gates (excerpt)

Use the applicable current threshold, including authorized inflation adjustments and FAR implementation; nominal dollar amounts in older Code editions are not necessarily the operating threshold.

Do not split a larger requirement to evade limits; promote competition to the maximum extent practicable and distribute micro-purchases equitably among qualified suppliers.

All requirements & limits

Recorded funding condition (excerpt)

Available acquisition appropriations; the procedure itself creates no funding.

All funding conditions

What this does not authorize / limits

This is not a general suspension of competition or fiscal law, and emergency thresholds are not available merely because a purchase is urgent.

Legal basisSources linked

RequirementsGates recorded

Public fundingRules recorded

Assigned rolesRoles recorded

EngagementProgram unverified

Implementation caution: Statutory-source review only. A current implementing program, open intake, available funds and individual delegation were not verified.

Public evidence describes the institution and instrument; it is not approval of an individual transaction. Express statutory pathway identified in the USC scrub. Current implementation, public intake, appropriations, available balances, and transaction-specific delegations were not independently verified.

Actor sources

Simplified procedures for small purchases; Simplified acquisition threshold; Implementation of simplified acquisition procedures; Micro-purchase threshold; Simplified acquisition procedures; Procedures applicable to purchases below micro-purchase threshold; Special emergency procurement authority — statutory holder and execution conditions

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