FAR and DFARS › DFARS Part 218: Emergency Acquisitions › Subpart 218.2
DFARS 218.270 Head of contracting activity determinations.
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 DFARS section changes who makes certain determinations under specified FAR provisions. Instead of the 'head of the agency,' the 'head of the contracting activity' makes those determinations. This matters because it shifts decision-making authority to a lower-level official for the listed FAR locations.
Applies to: Contracting activities using the listed FAR provisions
Key terms: head of the agency · head of the contracting activity · simplified acquisition threshold
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The text
The term “head of the agency” is replaced with “head of the contracting activity,” as defined in FAR 2.101, in the following locations:
(a) FAR 2.101: definition of “simplified acquisition threshold.”
(b) FAR 12.102(f).
(c) FAR 13.201(g).
(d) FAR 13.500(c)(1).
(e) FAR 18.2.
Sections that refer to it
- 202.101 Definitions.
← 218.204 Humanitarian or peacekeeping operation. · 218.271 Use of electronic business tools. →
Source: eCFR, 48 CFR chapters 1 and 2 (GPO GovInfo bulk data) ↗. Plain words for the terms: glossary.