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Title 48 - Federal Acquisition Regulations System last revised: Oct 10, 2024
217.701 - 217.701 Definitions.

As used in this subpart—

Assisted acquisition means the type of interagency contracting through which acquisition officials of a non-DoD agency award a contract or a task or delivery order for the acquisition of supplies or services on behalf of DoD.

Direct acquisition means the type of interagency contracting through which DoD orders a supply or service from a Governmentwide acquisition contract maintained by a non-DoD agency.

Governmentwide acquisition contract means a task or delivery order contract that—

(1) Is entered into by a non-defense agency; and

(2) May be used as the contract under which property or services are procured for one or more other departments or agencies of the Federal Government.

authority: 41 U.S.C. 1303 and 48 CFR chapter 1
source: 56 FR 36345, July 31, 1991, unless otherwise noted.
cite as: 48 CFR 217.701