The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- Department of Defense contracting
- Level
- Federal
- Authority
- DFARS 201.402
- Issued
- 2020-04-03 Apr. 3, 2020
- Effective
- immediately (read as 2020-04-03)
- End
- Remains in effect until incorporated in the DFARS or rescinded (read as 2021-09-30)
- In force
- Apr. 3, 2020 to Sept. 30, 2021
- Quarters
- 2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Supply chainOther
- Addressees
- heads of contracting activities
- contracting officers
- contractors
- Functions reached
- OP contract award and payment terms
- SC
- Collection
- Defense installations and the National Guard AGY-DEFENSE-GUARD
Operative words
The requirement at DFARS 217.7404-4(a) to limit obligations, after receipt of a qualifying proposal, to 75 percent of the not-to-exceed price before definitization does not apply to UCAs related to the national emergency for the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), as determined by the head of the contracting activity.
Enforcement
Waiver authority for the head of the contracting activity