{
  "id": "USC-17",
  "category": "Simplified and emergency purchasing",
  "capability": "Use simplified purchasing and micro-purchases, with special emergency flexibility",
  "summary": "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.",
  "legal_basis": [
    {
      "citation": "10 U.S.C. §3205",
      "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partV-subpartB-chap221-sec3205.htm",
      "kind": "statute",
      "note": "Official GovInfo 2024 baseline; read alongside the enacted amendments identified in this record."
    },
    {
      "citation": "10 U.S.C. §3571",
      "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partV-subpartC-chap251-sec3571.htm",
      "kind": "statute",
      "note": "Official GovInfo 2024 baseline; read alongside the enacted amendments identified in this record."
    },
    {
      "citation": "10 U.S.C. §3572",
      "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partV-subpartC-chap251-sec3572.htm",
      "kind": "statute",
      "note": "Official GovInfo 2024 baseline; read alongside the enacted amendments identified in this record."
    },
    {
      "citation": "10 U.S.C. §3573",
      "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partV-subpartC-chap251-sec3573.htm",
      "kind": "statute",
      "note": "Official GovInfo 2024 baseline; read alongside the enacted amendments identified in this record."
    },
    {
      "citation": "41 U.S.C. §1901",
      "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title41/html/USCODE-2024-title41-subtitleI-divsnB-chap19-sec1901.htm",
      "kind": "statute",
      "note": "Official GovInfo 2024 baseline; read alongside the enacted amendments identified in this record."
    },
    {
      "citation": "41 U.S.C. §1902",
      "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title41/html/USCODE-2024-title41-subtitleI-divsnB-chap19-sec1902.htm",
      "kind": "statute",
      "note": "Official GovInfo 2024 baseline; read alongside the enacted amendments identified in this record."
    },
    {
      "citation": "41 U.S.C. §1903",
      "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title41/html/USCODE-2024-title41-subtitleI-divsnB-chap19-sec1903.htm",
      "kind": "statute",
      "note": "Official GovInfo 2024 baseline; read alongside the enacted amendments identified in this record."
    },
    {
      "citation": "41 U.S.C. §1908",
      "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title41/html/USCODE-2024-title41-subtitleI-divsnB-chap19-sec1908.htm",
      "kind": "statute",
      "note": "Official GovInfo 2024 baseline; read alongside the enacted amendments identified in this record."
    }
  ],
  "authority_holder": "Head of the procuring agency and authorized contracting or purchasing officials",
  "actor_chain": {
    "planner": [
      "Relevant DoD mission or program sponsor"
    ],
    "resource_owner": [
      "Sponsoring component budget owner and comptroller; available funding not verified"
    ],
    "approver": [
      "Head of the procuring agency and authorized contracting or purchasing officials; transaction-specific delegation must be confirmed"
    ],
    "executor": [
      "Authorized component contracting, agreements, or personnel office; assignment is illustrative"
    ],
    "partners": [
      "Program counsel, fiscal officials, and eligible external counterpart as applicable"
    ]
  },
  "actor_sources": [
    {
      "title": "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",
      "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partV-subpartB-chap221-sec3205.htm"
    }
  ],
  "requirements": [
    "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."
  ],
  "limits": [
    "This is not a general suspension of competition or fiscal law, and emergency thresholds are not available merely because a purchase is urgent."
  ],
  "funding": [
    "Available acquisition appropriations; the procedure itself creates no funding."
  ],
  "coordination_path": "Mission sponsor → relevant program or personnel lead → counsel and fiscal review → official holding the required authority → eligible counterpart. Named functions are routing guidance, not verified individual delegations.",
  "availability": "Express statutory pathway identified in the USC scrub. Current implementation, public intake, appropriations, available balances, and transaction-specific delegations were not independently verified.",
  "confidence": "High on the cited statutory text and express conditions; operational availability is unverified.",
  "currentness": "Reviewed 2026-10-05 against official GovInfo 2024 Code text and a targeted P.L. 119-60 enacted-amendment search. OLRC direct pages were intermittently under maintenance. This is not an exhaustive certification of legislation after that baseline, funding, implementation, or individual delegation.",
  "family": "Acquisition, transition and contract finance",
  "supplement": "usc-review-2026-10-05",
  "last_reviewed": "2026-10-05",
  "implementation_caution": "Statutory-source review only. A current implementing program, open intake, available funds and individual delegation were not verified.",
  "usc_review_notes": [
    "Added in the October 5 statutory coverage review. The cited legal mechanism and its conditions were examined; a current implementing program, intake, funding balance and individual delegation were not verified."
  ],
  "mechanisms": [
    "Contracts & purchases"
  ],
  "goal_ids": [
    "prototype-to-use"
  ],
  "office_links": [],
  "family_slug": "acquisition-transition-and-contract-finance",
  "instrument_groups": [
    "Contracts & purchases"
  ],
  "executor_route": {
    "id": "execution-usc-17",
    "name": "Authorized component contracting, agreements, or personnel office; assignment is illustrative",
    "label": "Authorized component contracting, agreements, or personnel office; assignment is illustrative",
    "url": "/offices/execution/usc-17/",
    "basis": "Recorded executing role; this record-specific route is not an additional institutional office."
  },
  "program_context": [],
  "program_research": null,
  "checks": [
    {
      "key": "legal",
      "label": "Legal basis",
      "state": "Sources linked",
      "detail": "Legal sources and instrument limits are recorded."
    },
    {
      "key": "eligibility",
      "label": "Requirements",
      "state": "Gates recorded",
      "detail": "Read the requirements for this instrument; applicability depends on the proposed action."
    },
    {
      "key": "funds",
      "label": "Public funding",
      "state": "Rules recorded",
      "detail": "Available acquisition appropriations; the procedure itself creates no funding. Office budget figures are separate institutional context, not an allocation to this instrument.",
      "url": "/capabilities/usc-17/#funding"
    },
    {
      "key": "delegation",
      "label": "Assigned roles",
      "state": "Roles recorded",
      "detail": "Public sources describe institutional authority. The instrument identifies approval and execution roles; a specific signature remains transaction-dependent.",
      "url": "/capabilities/usc-17/#roles"
    },
    {
      "key": "execution",
      "label": "Engagement",
      "state": "Program unverified",
      "detail": "Added in the October 5 statutory review; no current implementing program, intake or individual delegation verified.",
      "url": "/sources/usc/"
    }
  ],
  "hard_limit": "This is not a general suspension of competition or fiscal law, and emergency thresholds are not available merely because a purchase is urgent."
}