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Record-specific actor routing

Follow through on ACQ-41

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; authorized contracting/finance 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-41 · Contract financing

Provide advance, progress, partial and performance-based contract payments

Finance performance of authorized property/services contracts and accelerate eligible small-business payments; tailored commercial-payment rules are available.

What this is not / limit: Contract financing is not an unrestricted corporate loan or investment.

Executing role: Warranted contracting officer and program manager

Authority holder

Head of agency; authorized contracting/finance officials

Eligibility gate

  • Payment basis, adequate security where required and public-interest determination for general advances.
  • Progress/performance evidence; aggregate payments cannot exceed unpaid contract price.

Funding condition

  • Appropriate contract funds; rules differ for ordinary advance payments, commercial payments and performance-based arrangements.

All recorded limits

  • Contract financing is not an unrestricted corporate loan or investment.
  • FY26 specifies qualifying commercial subscription/consumption payments are not advances for §3803 purposes; do not infer waiver of all fiscal limits.
Contracts & purchases
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.