MP5301.603 Standardized Contracting Officer Warranting

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Mandatory Procedure

MP5301.603
Standardized Contracting Officer Warranting

April 2010

Table of Contents

1. Applicability

2. Special topics

3. Selecting, Nominating and Evaluating Individuals

4. Appointing Contracting Officers

5. Documentation Maintenance

6. Terminating Appointments

PREFACE

1. Applicability. This MP shall be used when selecting and nominating individuals for warrants, examining candidate qualifications, appointing COs, modifying appointments, reinstating previously held AF warrants, transferring warrant eligibility between AF contracting offices, and terminating CO appointments.

2. Special Topics.

3. Selecting, Nominating, and Evaluating Individuals

4. Appointing Contracting Officers.

5. Documentation Maintenance. The SCO/SCCO’s focal point or designee shall maintain a folder for each CO which shall include the completed Contracting Officer Appointment/Warrant Eligibility Transfer/Termination Request template, documentation requirements of FAR 1.603-2 and supplements thereto on behalf of the appointing official, and a copy of the signed warrant certificate. A copy of the warrant test that was administered and the test results, as well as a copy of the Warrant board minutes, when a board is conducted, may be retained by the test proctor in a central location (filed by the date the test was administered or board was conducted) or filed within the folder for each CO. These records (hard copy or electronic) shall be retained for a reasonable amount of time to facilitate warrant modifications, eligibility transfers and reinstatements.

6. Terminating Appointments. The initiator of a warrant termination, normally the supervisor of the CO, shall request termination of a warrant whether for cause, reassignment or employment termination using the Contracting Officer Appointment/Warrant Eligibility Transfer/Termination Request template. If the CO is transferring to another AF contracting office and will require a warrant in the new position, the gaining SCO/SCCO will request the SCO/SCCO’s focal point or designee to obtain the documentation supporting warrant eligibility transfer from the losing SCO/SCCO (the warrant must be terminated by the losing SCO/SCCO and a new SF 1402 issued by the gaining SCO/SCCO or designee). The Contracting Officer Appointment/Warrant Eligibility Transfer/Termination Request template must be completed by the SCO/SCCO focal point or designee for termination and for warrant eligibility transfers, and submitted to the SCO/SCCO or designee for signature in the space provided. The completed template will be returned to the SCO/SCCO’s focal point or designee for file retention (hard copy or electronic) for a reasonable amount of time to facilitate any future warrant reinstatement.

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