# AFFARS MP5317.7404-3

#### Mandatory Procedure

MP5317.7404-3
Definitization Schedule

August 2005

5317.7404-3 Definitization schedule.
(a) Undefinitized Contract Actions (UCA) approval authorities shall establish procedures for field offices to track UCAs and submit a written report to them for any UCA that is not definitized within 180 days after the contractor submits a qualifying proposal. The UCA approval authority must report any UCA not definitized within one year to SAF/AQC. The report shall list each UCA, rationale why it was not definitized within the allotted timeframe, and new definitization date. Do not include UCAs covered by Contracting Policy Memo 03-C-13, Undefinitized Contract Actions and Contingency Operations in Support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, or similar memos that invoke the exceptions at DFARS 217.7404-5(b).

(c) Contracting officers shall document the contract file with the justification for the delay, and prepare a new milestone schedule if the DFARS definitization schedule milestones are surpassed.