AFARS -- Part 5150
Extraordinary Contractual Actions
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(iii) The contracting officer is responsible for preparing, submitting, and receiving all records not directed to be prepared, submitted, or received by others.
Subpart 5150.2 -- Delegation of and Limitations on Exercise of Authority
(a) The ASA(AL&T) has delegated to HCAs, with authority to redelegate no lower than PARCs, the authority to --
(i) Deny any request for contractual adjustment of the type described in FAR Subpart 50.3;
(ii) Make all D&Fs required by the Act of 28 August 1958 (Pub.L. 85-804), Executive Order 10789 and FAR Part 50;
(iii) Approve, authorize and direct appropriate action in those cases set forth as examples under the categories of correcting mistakes and formalizing informal commitments in FAR 50.302-2 and 50.302-3, subject to the limitations in FAR 50.203;
(iv) Where necessary to the exercise of the authority in (iii), modify or release unliquidated obligations of any sort and to extend delivery and performance dates;
(v) Refer to the Army Contract Adjustment Board any case in which the HCA, or PARC if authority has been redelegated, determines that an appropriate contractual adjustment is justified, but for which the HCA or PARC does not have the authority to make the adjustment; and
(vi) Refer to the Army Contract Adjustment Board, for its determination, any doubtful or unusual cases under (i) through (iv).
Subpart 5150.3 -- Contract Adjustments
5150.305-70 -- Record of Request.
The contracting officer must file preliminary records within five working days of receipt of a request for a contract adjustment with the Recorder, Army Contract Adjustment Board, Office of the General Counsel, 104 Army Pentagon, Attn: SAGC, Washington DC 20310-0104.
5150.305-71 -- Processing cases to contract adjustment boards.
(a) Send documents to the addressee in 5150.305-70.
5150.306-70 -- Record of disposition.
(a) Submit documents to the addressee in 5150.305-70 within five working days of a decision on a request.