AFARS PART 5136

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AFARS -- Part 5136

Construction and Architect-Engineer Contracts

Subpart 5136.2 -- Special Aspects of Contracting for Construction

5136.201 -- Evaluation of contractor performance.

(a)(1)

(b) The contracting officer is responsible for reviewing performance reports for accuracy and fairness, prior to their submission to the central data base.

(c) (2) Before awarding a Job Order Contract, contracting officers must retrieve all performance evaluations in the Contractor Performance Assessment Report (CPAR) on those offerors in range for award. Contracting officers may rely solely on the CPAR database information in assessing past performance.

5136.209 -- Construction contracts with architect-engineer firms.

The Head of the Contracting Activity (HCA) may approve award of a construction contract to the firm that designed the project. This authority may be redelegated to the Principal Assistant Responsible for Contracting (PARC) or, in the United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), to the Division Engineer.

5136.271 -- Cost-plus-fixed-fee contracts.

Subpart 5136.6 -- Architect-Engineer Services

5136.600 – Scope of subpart.

5136.600-90 -- Authority for architect-engineer contracting.

a. The following Army contracting activities are authorized to contract for architect-engineer services, as stipulated below:

b. Other Army contracting activities, as mutually agreed with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, may execute task orders for architect-engineer services, under U.S. Army Corps of Engineers indefinite-delivery contracts. The installation contracting officer and facilities engineering personnel must comply with the instructions of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers contracting officer regarding the negotiation, issuance, and administration of task orders.

[AFARS Revision #005, dated September 27, 2002] [AFARS Revision #21, dated May 22, 2007]

5136.601 -- Policy.

5136.601-90 – Synopsis and notice.

(a) For Army funded projects, the National Guard Bureau contracting officers must --

(b) The USACE must report in accordance with Army Regulation (AR) 415-15; contracting officers are not required to report.

[AFARS Revision #21, dated May 22, 2007]

5136.601-3 -- Applicable contracting procedures.

5136.601-3-90 -- Limitations.

Limitations on use of indefinite-delivery A-E contracts. Headquarters, USACE, and Headquarters, National Guard Bureau, must establish appropriate controls on the use of indefinite delivery contracts for architect-engineering services by subordinate contracting offices.

[AFARS Revision #21, dated May 22, 2007]

5136.602 -- Selection of firms for architect-engineer contracts.

5136.602-5 -- Short selection process for contracts not to exceed the simplified acquisition threshold.

The USACE and the National Guard Bureau may use both short processes.

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