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United Skates General Accounting Office
Washington, DC 20543
April
Mr, Strut Valakis
FArProject Reviewv Coordinator
Office of Federal Procurement
Policy
Office of Management and Budge
Executive Office of the PresJd
Office of
General Couns !Il
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Dear Mr, Vaiakis;
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By letter dated January 24, 1979, you transmitted
Ear-nu-r-eomment a drift segment of the Foderal Acqutsition
Regmation7(FAR). The segment covers su]0par .-e
SisteAnUAL- ratio, dubpart 17,2--Options,'part 2-.
s'-vironmental Protection and subpart 42.5--Post-Award
Orientation.
S hpart 11-21PAR'System Aaminisi:rut!Ol1, eatablishes
the edinistrative mechanisms f r:rmaitepar We of the
FAR, ai control of the FAR $yst em. it provides for
a high' level policy board\ terme&V theQ'FAR\Counqil,
which'iscomposed of the Adminitratbr1fo. Federal
Procurement Policy (Adminitrato) and h&, priincipal
acquiditi?n officials of s'i major agencies. The Counitl
is supporto6d by a full tim&,'I FAR'BxecutiveStaf!
responsiblk'. for overall administrttion and' paintenuco
of the FARjSystem, including oversight of agency 4Q-,s
quisition regulations which ijplement or supplerjen the
FAR. The General Services Admienistration Li' esponsible
for publicaE'ion and distribution of, the FAR ,)through the
Code of Fed1i'al Regulations System (includingU a loose
leaf edition)' Departments and ,agencies are required
to review aid'ap rove, at the lhdadquarters 1evel, all
internal acquisiticn regulatOons, to insure comhpliance
with FAR requicements. We .are informed that te goal
of subpart 1.2 is to'create a sir;!le Government-wide
system of acqul5ito, regulations, minimizing viie volume
o lfrplementing 'and supplementing regulations, while
still retaining 'Sufficient flexibility to accommodate
agency regulatory needs.
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