FAR and DFARS › DFARS Part 208: Required Sources of Supplies and Services › Subpart 208.70
DFARS 208.7000 Scope of subpart.
The codified text (eCFR, as of 2026-10-02). Under the Revolutionary FAR Overhaul ↗, agencies follow class deviations with new text for many parts while the formal rules go through the Federal Register: check the solicitation and your contract's clauses, which rule.
In plain English
This subpart sets out the policy and procedures for buying items when contracting responsibility has been assigned to one or more departments, agencies, or the General Services Administration. It matters because it tells you that certain items are acquired under assigned contracting responsibility rather than by any buyer, and it points to where those assignments are listed.
Applies to: Acquisitions of items with assigned contracting responsibility
Key terms: Coordinated Acquisition Program · Integrated Materiel Management Program · contracting responsibility · commodity assignments · General Services Administration
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The text
This subpart prescribes policy and procedures for acquisition of items for which contracting responsibility is assigned to one or more of the departments/agencies or the General Services Administration. Contracting responsibility is assigned through—
(a) The Coordinated Acquisition Program (commodity assignments are listed in PGI 208.7006); or
(b) The Integrated Materiel Management Program (assignments are in DoD 4140.26-M, Defense Integrated Materiel Management Manual for Consumable Items).
Sections it refers to
- 208.7006 Coordinated acquisition assignments.
← 208.705 Procedures. · 208.7001 Definitions. →
Source: eCFR, 48 CFR chapters 1 and 2 (GPO GovInfo bulk data) ↗. Plain words for the terms: glossary.