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DFARS 208.7002 Assignment authority.

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 section explains how contracting responsibility for certain commodities is assigned under the DoD Coordinated Acquisition Program and the Integrated Materiel Management Program. It identifies who makes those assignments and how agreements between agencies can be formed. It matters because it tells contractors which department or agency may handle contracting for a given commodity.

Applies to: DoD contracting for assigned commodities under coordinated acquisition and integrated materiel management programs

What it requires

  • Consider repetitive delegated acquisition responsibilities for coordinated acquisition assignment.
  • If not considered suitable for coordinated acquisition assignment, formalize continuing agreements and distribute them to all activities concerned.

Key terms: DoD Coordinated Acquisition Program · Integrated Materiel Management Program · commodity assignments · military interdepartmental purchase request (MIPR) · one-time agreement

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The text

(a) Under the DoD Coordinated Acquisition Program, contracting responsibility for certain commodities is assigned to a single department, agency, or the General Services Administration (GSA). Commodity assignments are made—

(1) To the departments and agencies, by the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (Logistics);

(2) To GSA, through agreement with GSA, by the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (Logistics);

(3) Outside the contiguous United States, by the Unified Commanders; and

(4) For acquisitions to be made in the contiguous United States for commodities not assigned under paragraphs (a)(1), (2), or (3) of this section, by agreement of agency heads (10 U.S.C. 3065).

(i) Agreement may be on either a one-time or a continuing basis. The submission of a military interdepartmental purchase request (MIPR) by a requiring activity and its acceptance by the contracting activity of another department, even though based on an oral communication, constitutes a one-time agreement.

(ii) Consider repetitive delegated acquisition responsibilities for coordinated acquisition assignment. If not considered suitable for coordinated acquisition assignment, formalize continuing agreements and distribute them to all activities concerned.

(b) Under the Integrated Materiel Management Program, assignments are made by the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (Logistics)—

(1) To the departments and agencies; and

(2) To GSA, through agreement with GSA.

Sections that refer to it

  • 227.7006 Investigation and administrative disposition of claims.

← 208.7001 Definitions. · 208.7002-1 Acquiring department responsibilities. →

Source: eCFR, 48 CFR chapters 1 and 2 (GPO GovInfo bulk data) ↗. Plain words for the terms: glossary.

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