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48 CFR · Federal Acquisition Regulation and Defense supplement

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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.

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22 sections with “agency heads”

  • FAR 1.301 Policy.
    …a)(1) Subject to the authorities in paragraph (c) below and other statutory authority, an agency head may issue or authorize the issuance of agency acquisition regulations that implement or supplement the FAR and incorporate, together with …
  • FAR 1.404 Class deviations.
    Class deviations affect more than one contract action. When an agency knows that it will require a class deviation on a permanent basis, it should propose a FAR revision, if appropriate. Civilian agencies, other than NASA, must furnish a co…
  • FAR 1.601 General.
    …ity and responsibility to contract for authorized supplies and services are vested in the agency head. The agency head may establish contracting activities and delegate broad authority to manage the agency's contracting functions to heads o…
  • FAR 11.603 Procedures.
    …ty. (c) Rated orders shall be placed in accordance with the provisions of the DPAS. (d) Agency heads shall ensure compliance with the DPAS by contracting activities within their agencies. (e) Agency heads shall provide contracting activi…
  • FAR 32.007 Contract financing payments.
    (a)(1) Unless otherwise prescribed in agency policies and procedures or otherwise specified in paragraph (b) of this section, the due date for making contract financing payments by the designated payment office is the 30th day after the des…
  • FAR 13.201 General.
    (a) Agency heads are encouraged to delegate micro-purchase authority (see 1.603-3). (b) The Governmentwide commercial purchase card shall be the preferred method to purchase and to pay for micro-purchases (see 2.101). (c) Purchases at or …
  • FAR 1.603-3 Appointment.
    … maintain files containing copies of all appointments that have not been terminated. (b) Agency heads are encouraged to delegate micro-purchase authority to individuals who are employees of an executive agency or members of the Armed Force…
  • FAR 9.503 Waiver.
    The agency head or a designee may waive any general rule or procedure of this subpart by determining that its application in a particular situation would not be in the Government's interest. Any request for waiver must be in writing, shall …
  • FAR 14.407-3 Other mistakes disclosed before award.
    …evidence establishes both the existence of the mistake and the bid actually intended, the agency head may make a determination permitting the bidder to correct the mistake; provided, that if this correction would result in displacing one or…
  • FAR 19.201 General policy.
    …le opportunity to participate as subcontractors in the contracts awarded by any executive agency, consistent with efficient contract performance. The Small Business Administration (SBA) counsels and assists small business concerns and assis…
  • FAR 27.302 Policy.
    …f a foreign government (see 27.303(e)(1)(i)); (ii) In exceptional circumstances, when an agency determines that restriction or elimination of the right to retain title in any subject invention will better promote the policy and objectives …
  • FAR 1.603-1 General.
    41 U.S.C. 1702(b)(3)(G), requires agency heads to establish and maintain a procurement career management program and a system for the selection, appointment, and termination of appointment of contracting officers. Agency heads or their desi…
  • FAR 15.303 Responsibilities.
    (a) Agency heads are responsible for source selection. The contracting officer is designated as the source selection authority, unless the agency head appoints another individual for a particular acquisition or group of acquisitions. (b) T…
  • FAR 32.303 General.
    … to amounts annually authorized by Congress on the maximum obligation of any guaranteeing agency under any loan, discount, advance, or commitment in connection therewith, entered into under section 301. (See 50 U.S.C. App. 2091 for statutor…
  • FAR 32.903 Responsibilities.
    (a) Agency heads— (1) Must establish the policies and procedures necessary to implement this subpart; (2) May prescribe additional standards for establishing invoice payment due dates (see 32.904) necessary to support agency programs and …
  • DFARS 208.7002 Assignment authority.
    …m, 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 Se…
  • DFARS 227.7103-14 Conformity, acceptance, and warranty of technical data.
    …not to satisfy the requirements of the contract concerning such data; and (2) Authorizes agency heads to withhold payments (or exercise such other remedies an agency head considers appropriate) during any period if the contractor does not …
  • DFARS 201.603-3 Appointment.
    …se Acquisition Regulation have the same effect as if they had been issued under FAR. (b) Agency heads may delegate the purchase authority in 213.301 to DoD civilian employees and members of the U.S. Armed Forces.
  • DFARS 225.871-3 General.
    …of other participants without charge to any appropriation or contract authorization. (3) Agency heads are authorized to solicit and award contracts to implement cooperative projects. (b) Contracts implementing cooperative projects shall c…
  • FAR 3.703 Authority.
    …he executive agencies and military departments. (b) 41 U.S.C. 2105(c) requires a Federal agency, upon receiving information that a contractor or a person has violated 41 U.S.C. 2102, to consider rescission of a contract with respect to whi…
  • FAR 17.602 Policy.
    …icers to enter into or renew any management and operating contract in accordance with the agency's statutory authority, or 41 U.S.C. chapter 33, and the agency's regulations governing such contracts. This authority shall not be delegated. E…
  • FAR 50.101-1 Authority.
    …he authority conferred by Pub. L. 85-804 and to delegate it to other officials within the agency: the Government Publishing Office; the Department of Homeland Security; the Tennessee Valley Authority; the National Aeronautics and Space Admi…

FAR (chapter 1)

DFARS (chapter 2, Defense)

Source: eCFR, 48 CFR chapters 1 and 2 (GPO GovInfo bulk data) ↗. Rule changes in progress: FAR, DFARS. Terms: glossary.