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FAR and DFARS › DFARS Part 209: Contractor Qualifications › Subpart 209.2

DFARS 209.270-3 Policy.

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 sets the policy for buying, modifying, repairing, or overhauling aviation or ship critical safety items. It says the contracting activity head may only use a source that the head of the design control activity has approved. It also replaces certain FAR approval authorities for these items.

Applies to: Aviation or ship critical safety items and the contracting activity head responsible for procuring them

What it requires

  • Enter into a contract for procurement, modification, repair, or overhaul of such an item only with a source approved by the head of the design control activity.

Key terms: aviation or ship critical safety item · head of the contracting activity · head of the design control activity · approved source

Written by AI from this section's text. A guide, not legal advice: the text below rules.

The text

(a) The head of the contracting activity responsible for procuring an aviation or ship critical safety item may enter into a contract for the procurement, modification, repair, or overhaul of such an item only with a source approved by the head of the design control activity.

(b) The approval authorities specified in this section apply instead of those otherwise specified in FAR 9.202(a)(1), 9.202(c), or 9.206-1(c), for the procurement, modification, repair, and overhaul of aviation or ship critical safety items.

Sections it refers to

← 209.270-2 Definitions. · 209.270-4 Procedures. →

Rule changes for DFARS Part 209

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

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