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Record-specific actor routing

Follow through on ACQ-36

Warranted contracting officer and program manager

This preserves the record’s role labels; it is not an additional verified institutional directory node.

Authority holder · recorded legal basis

Head of agency; contracting officer and specified approval officials

Executing office · routing lead

Warranted contracting officer and program manager

Recorded executing role; this record-specific route is not an additional institutional office.

Intake

Use the responsible program or contracting office for this instrument.

The recorded role is not itself a general application endpoint.

What this role does not control

A routing lead does not establish funds, an individual delegation or approval of the proposed action.

Legal basisSources linkedLegal sources and instrument limits are recorded.
RequirementsGates recordedRead the requirements for this instrument; applicability depends on the proposed action.
Public fundingRules recordedThe record states funding rules and conditions; no program amount is attributed to this action.
Assigned rolesRoles recordedPublic sources describe institutional authority. The instrument identifies approval and execution roles; a specific signature remains transaction-dependent.
EngagementRole recordedRecorded executing role: Warranted contracting officer and program manager. Use the responsible program’s process.

Selected instrument

ACQ-36 · Procurement

Limit competition or use sole-source procedures for defined statutory reasons

Use documented exceptions for unique sources, compelling urgency, industrial mobilization/essential research capacity, international commitments, express statutes, national-security secrecy or public interest.

What this is not / limit: Lack of planning or expiring procurement funds does not justify noncompetition.

Executing role: Warranted contracting officer and program manager

Authority holder

Head of agency; contracting officer and specified approval officials

Eligibility gate

  • Actual statutory exception and written justification/approval unless an express exception to those requirements applies.
  • Solicit as many practicable sources for urgency and national-security secrecy cases.

Funding condition

  • Existing appropriate procurement/service funds; separate funding authority not created.

All recorded limits

  • Lack of planning or expiring procurement funds does not justify noncompetition.
  • Urgency contract generally only necessary duration and no more than 1 year absent exceptional-circumstances determination.
  • FY26 statutory approval tiers changed: above $10m to $100m competition advocate; above $100m to $500m procuring-activity head; above $500m senior procurement executive.
Other statutory tools
Legal basisSources linked
RequirementsGates recorded
Public fundingRules recorded
Assigned rolesRoles recorded
EngagementRole recorded
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Actor sources & routing basis

Recorded executing role; this record-specific route is not an additional institutional office.