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.
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 linkedLegal sources and instrument limits are recorded.
RequirementsGates recordedRead the requirements for this instrument; applicability depends on the proposed action.
Public fundingRules recordedAvailable acquisition appropriations; the procedure itself creates no funding. Office budget figures are separate institutional context, not an allocation to this instrument.
Assigned rolesRoles recordedPublic sources describe institutional authority. The instrument identifies approval and execution roles; a specific signature remains transaction-dependent.
EngagementProgram unverifiedAdded in the October 5 statutory review; no current implementing program, intake or individual delegation verified.
Use the statutory simplified-acquisition and micro-purchase procedures, including purchases without competitive quotations at the applicable micro-purchase level when price is reasonable, and use enhanced emergency thresholds or narrow commercial-treatment authority after the required determination.
What this is not / limit: This is not a general suspension of competition or fiscal law, and emergency thresholds are not available merely because a purchase is urgent.
Executing role: Authorized component contracting, agreements, or personnel office; assignment is illustrative
Authority holder
Head of the procuring agency and authorized contracting or purchasing officials
Eligibility gate
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.
Section 1903 requires the head-of-agency determination for one of the enumerated contingency, attack-response, international-disaster, or emergency purposes.
The §1903(c) commercial-treatment power applies only to the specified attack-defense/recovery category and retains the stated sole-source cost-rule exceptions.
Funding condition
Available acquisition appropriations; the procedure itself creates no funding.
All recorded limits
This is not a general suspension of competition or fiscal law, and emergency thresholds are not available merely because a purchase is urgent.