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   <concept id="DFARS_PGI_225.7003-3"
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      <title class="- topic/title ">
         <ph props="autonumber" class="- topic/ph ">PGI 225.7003-3</ph> Exceptions.</title>
      <conbody class="- topic/body  concept/conbody ">
         <p outputclass="List1" class="- topic/p ">(b)(2) <i class="+ topic/ph hi-d/i ">Report of COTS items</i>.</p>
         <p class="- topic/p ">If a department or agency uses the exception at DFARS <xref href="225.7003-3.dita#DFARS_225.7003-3"
                  base="DFARS-225.7003-3"
                  outputclass="fm:ParaNumOnly"
                  class="- topic/xref "
                  xtrc="225.7003-3">225.7003-3</xref>(b)(2) for an
acquisition of COTS end items valued at $5 million or more per item,
the department or agency shall address use of the exception in a
year-end report, to be prepared and submitted as follows:</p>
         <p outputclass="List4" class="- topic/p ">(A) Entitle the report “COTS Specialty
Metal Exceptions Granted During Fiscal Year ____.”</p>
         <p outputclass="List4" class="- topic/p ">(B) For each excepted COTS item purchased
during the fiscal year, include in the report, at a minimum, the
applicable—</p>
         <p outputclass="List6" class="- topic/p ">(1) Contract number and any applicable
delivery order number;</p>
         <p outputclass="List6" class="- topic/p ">(2) Dollar value; and</p>
         <p outputclass="List6" class="- topic/p ">(3) Item description.</p>
         <p outputclass="List4" class="- topic/p ">(C) Submit the report by October 31 of
each year to:</p>
         <p class="- topic/p ">Principal Director, Defense Pricing, Contracting, and Acquisition Policy</p>
         <p class="- topic/p ">ATTN: OUSD(A&amp;S) DPCAP/CP</p>
         <p class="- topic/p ">3060 Defense Pentagon</p>
         <p class="- topic/p ">Washington, DC 20301-3060.</p>
         <p outputclass="List2" class="- topic/p ">(4) For samarium-cobalt magnets contained
in an item listed in 225.7003-2(a) manufactured in a qualifying
country, see paragraph (b)(6)(C) of this section.</p>
         <p outputclass="List2" class="- topic/p ">(5) Domestic specialty metals nonavailable
as and when needed.</p>
         <p outputclass="List4" class="- topic/p ">(A) Determining availability.</p>
         <p outputclass="List6" class="- topic/p ">(<i class="+ topic/ph hi-d/i ">1</i>) FAR 15.402 requires that contracting
officers purchase supplies and services at fair and reasonable prices. Thus,
contracting officers must determine whether any increase in contract
price that results from providing compliant specialty metal is fair
and reasonable, given the circumstances of the particular situation. In
those cases where the contracting officer determines that the price
would not be fair and reasonable, the Secretary of the military
department concerned may use that information in determining whether
the unreasonable price causes the compliant metal to be effectively
“nonavailable.” Where these “reasonableness” limits should be drawn
is a case-by-case decision.</p>
         <p outputclass="List6" class="- topic/p ">(<i class="+ topic/ph hi-d/i ">2</i>) A similar approach may be used
to determine whether delays associated with incorporating compliant
specialty metals into items being acquired results in the metals
being effectively nonavailable.</p>
         <p outputclass="List4" class="- topic/p ">(B)(1) A department or agency requesting
a determination or approval from USD(A&amp;S) in accordance with
DFARS 225.7003-3(b)(5) shall submit the request, including the proposed
determination, to—</p>
         <p outputclass="List2" class="- topic/p ">Principal Director, Defense Pricing, Contracting, and Acquisition Policy </p>
         <p outputclass="List2" class="- topic/p ">ATTN: OUSD(A&amp;S) DPCAP/CP</p>
         <p outputclass="List2" class="- topic/p ">3060 Defense Pentagon </p>
         <p outputclass="List2" class="- topic/p ">Washington, DC 20301-3060.</p>
         <p outputclass="List6" class="- topic/p ">(2) The Principal Director, Defense Pricing, Contracting, and Acquisition Policy (DPCAP), will forward the request to USD(A&amp;S) as appropriate.</p>
         <p outputclass="List4" class="- topic/p ">(C) For domestic nonavailability determinations
with regard to samarium-cobalt high performance magnets, see paragraph
(b)(6)(D) of this section.</p>
         <p outputclass="List2" class="- topic/p ">(6) Application of specialty metals restrictions
to magnets.</p>
         <p outputclass="List4" class="- topic/p ">(A) The two most common types of high performance magnets are samarium-cobalt magnets and neodymium-iron-boron magnets. Only samarium-cobalt magnets contain specialty metals and are subject to the restrictions of 10 U.S.C. 4863 in this section, as well as the restrictions of 10 U.S.C. 4872 at <xref href="PGI_225.7018.dita#DFARS_PGI_225.7018"
                  base="DFARS-PGI_PGI_225.7018"
                  outputclass="fm:ParaNumOnly"
                  class="- topic/xref "
                  xtrc="225.7018">225.7018</xref> . Neodymium-iron-boron magnets are only subject to the restrictions of 10 U.S.C. 4872 at <xref href="PGI_225.7018.dita#DFARS_PGI_225.7018"
                  base="DFARS-PGI_PGI_225.7018"
                  outputclass="fm:ParaNumOnly"
                  class="- topic/xref "
                  xtrc="225.7018">225.7018</xref> , because they do not contain specialty metals. There are no other commonly used magnets that contain specialty metals.</p>
         <p outputclass="List4" class="- topic/p ">(B) Table.</p>
         <p class="- topic/p ">HPM = High performance magnet</p>
         <p class="- topic/p ">COTS = Commercially available off-the-shelf</p>
         <p class="- topic/p ">SmCo = Samarium Cobalt</p>
         <table frame="all" colsep="0" rowsep="0" class="- topic/table ">
            <tgroup cols="3"
                    colsep="0"
                    rowsep="0"
                    outputclass="Table"
                    class="- topic/tgroup ">
               <colspec colnum="1"
                        colname="1"
                        colwidth="40*"
                        colsep="0"
                        class="- topic/colspec "
                        rowheader="headers"/>
               <colspec colnum="2"
                        colname="2"
                        colwidth="32*"
                        colsep="0"
                        class="- topic/colspec "
                        rowheader="headers"/>
               <colspec colnum="3"
                        colname="3"
                        colwidth="28*"
                        colsep="0"
                        class="- topic/colspec "
                        rowheader="headers"/>
               <tbody class="- topic/tbody ">
                  <row rowsep="0" class="- topic/row ">
                     <entry colname="1" class="- topic/entry ">
                        <p class="- topic/p ">Magnet made of specialty metal is:</p>
                     </entry>
                     <entry colname="2" class="- topic/entry ">
                        <p class="- topic/p ">Commercially available, SmCo HPM</p>
                     </entry>
                     <entry colname="3" class="- topic/entry ">
                        <p class="- topic/p ">NOT Commercially available,</p>
                        <p class="- topic/p ">SmCo HPM</p>
                     </entry>
                  </row>
                  <row rowsep="0" class="- topic/row ">
                     <entry colname="1" class="- topic/entry ">
                        <p class="- topic/p ">Incorporated into COTS subsystem or COTS end
item</p>
                     </entry>
                     <entry colname="2" class="- topic/entry ">
                        <p class="- topic/p ">NOT restricted</p>
                     </entry>
                     <entry colname="3" class="- topic/entry ">
                        <p class="- topic/p "/>
                        <p class="- topic/p ">*</p>
                     </entry>
                  </row>
                  <row rowsep="0" class="- topic/row ">
                     <entry colname="1" class="- topic/entry ">
                        <p class="- topic/p ">NOT incorporated into COTS subsystem or COTS
end item</p>
                     </entry>
                     <entry colname="2" class="- topic/entry ">
                        <p class="- topic/p ">Restricted</p>
                     </entry>
                     <entry colname="3" class="- topic/entry ">
                        <p class="- topic/p ">Restricted</p>
                     </entry>
                  </row>
                  <row rowsep="0" class="- topic/row ">
                     <entry colname="1" class="- topic/entry ">
                        <p class="- topic/p ">Included in 2 percent minimum content?</p>
                     </entry>
                     <entry colname="2" class="- topic/entry ">
                        <p class="- topic/p ">Cannot be included in</p>
                        <p class="- topic/p ">2 percent minimum
content</p>
                     </entry>
                     <entry colname="3" class="- topic/entry ">
                        <p class="- topic/p ">Cannot be included in 2 percent minimum
content</p>
                     </entry>
                  </row>
               </tbody>
            </tgroup>
         </table>
         <p class="- topic/p ">* By definition, COTS assemblies and COTS end items will not
include a HPM that is not commercially available.</p>
         <p outputclass="List4" class="- topic/p ">(C) Samarium-cobalt magnets contained in an item manufactured in a qualifying country are still subject to the requirements of 10 U.S.C. 4872, because there is no exception in 10 U.S.C. 4872 for items manufactured in a qualifying country comparable to the exception at <xref href="#DFARS_PGI_225.7003-3"
                  base="DFARS-PGI_PGI_225.7003-3"
                  outputclass="fm:ParaNumOnly"
                  class="- topic/xref ">225.7003-3</xref> (b)(4) to the specialty metal restrictions of 10 U.S.C. 4863.</p>
         <p outputclass="List4" class="- topic/p ">(D) Even if samarium-cobalt magnets are determined to be domestically nonavailable under this section, the restrictions of 10 U.S.C. 4872 still apply unless samarium-cobalt magnets melted or produced outside a covered country are also determined to be nonavailable in accordance with <xref href="PGI_225.7018-4.dita#DFARS_PGI_225.7018-4"
                  base="DFARS-PGI_PGI_225.7018-4"
                  outputclass="fm:ParaNumOnly"
                  class="- topic/xref "
                  xtrc="225.7018-4">225.7018-4</xref> .</p>
         <p outputclass="List1" class="- topic/p ">(c) <i class="+ topic/ph hi-d/i ">Compliance for commercial derivative
military articles</i>.</p>
         <p outputclass="List3" class="- topic/p ">(i) A department or agency requesting a
determination or approval from USD(A&amp;S) in accordance with DFARS <xref href="225.7003-3.dita#DFARS_225.7003-3"
                  base="DFARS-225.7003-3"
                  outputclass="fm:ParaNumOnly"
                  class="- topic/xref "
                  xtrc="225.7003-3">225.7003-3</xref>(c) shall submit
the request, including the proposed determination, to—</p>
         <p class="- topic/p ">Principal Director, Defense Pricing, Contracting, and Acquisition Policy</p>
         <p class="- topic/p ">ATTN: OUSD(A&amp;S) DPCAP/CP</p>
         <p class="- topic/p ">3060 Defense Pentagon</p>
         <p class="- topic/p ">Washington, DC 20301-3060.</p>
         <p outputclass="List3" class="- topic/p ">(ii) The Principal Director, DPCAP, will forward the request to USD(A&amp;S) as appropriate.</p>
         <p outputclass="List1" class="- topic/p ">(d) <i class="+ topic/ph hi-d/i ">National security waiver</i>.</p>
         <p outputclass="List3" class="- topic/p ">(i) A department or agency shall request a national security waiver of the restrictions of 10 U.S.C. 4863 from USD(A&amp;S) in accordance with DFARS <xref href="225.7003-3.dita#DFARS_225.7003-3"
                  base="DFARS-225.7003-3"
                  outputclass="fm:ParaNumOnly"
                  class="- topic/xref "
                  xtrc="225.7003-3">225.7003-3</xref>(d) in a timely manner after discovering or being informed of a specialty metals noncompliance in an item, or component thereof, listed at <xref href="PGI_225.7003-2.dita#DFARS_PGI_225.7003-2"
                  base="DFARS-PGI_PGI_225.7003-2"
                  outputclass="fm:ParaNumOnly"
                  class="- topic/xref "
                  xtrc="225.7003-2">225.7003-2</xref> (a) and covered by 10 U.S.C. 4863. The department or agency shall submit the request, via the chain of command, including the draft determination and draft letters of notification to the congressional defense committees, as follows:</p>
         <p class="- topic/p ">Principal Director, Defense Pricing, Contracting, and Acquisition Policy</p>
         <p class="- topic/p ">ATTN: OUSD(A&amp;S) DPCAP/CP</p>
         <p class="- topic/p ">3060 Defense Pentagon</p>
         <p class="- topic/p ">Washington, DC 20301-3060</p>
         <p outputclass="List3" class="- topic/p ">(ii) The request shall include—</p>
         <p outputclass="List4" class="- topic/p ">(A) The quantity of end items to which
the waiver would apply;</p>
         <p outputclass="List4" class="- topic/p ">(B) The time period that the waiver will
cover;</p>
         <p outputclass="List4" class="- topic/p ">(C) How and when the noncompliance was
discovered—</p>
         <p outputclass="List6" class="- topic/p ">(1) By the subcontractor(s);</p>
         <p outputclass="List6" class="- topic/p ">(2) By the contractor; and</p>
         <p outputclass="List6" class="- topic/p ">(3) By the department or agency;</p>
         <p outputclass="List4" class="- topic/p ">(D) A complete description of all of the
items or systems containing noncompliant specialty metals;</p>
         <p outputclass="List4" class="- topic/p ">(E) The contract number(s), date(s), duration,
and subcontractor(s) associated with the noncompliance;</p>
         <p outputclass="List4" class="- topic/p ">(F) The manufacturer and country of origin
of the noncompliant material, if known;</p>
         <p outputclass="List4" class="- topic/p ">(G) Whether the contractor flowed down
the DFARS clause to the subcontractors and in what format (e.g.,
exact quote or substantially the same?);</p>
         <p outputclass="List4" class="- topic/p ">(H) A technical description of the affected
parts, their role in the larger assembly, and their function in
the end item;</p>
         <p outputclass="List4" class="- topic/p ">(I) Estimated cost and schedule to replace
noncompliant parts if a national security waiver is not granted;</p>
         <p outputclass="List4" class="- topic/p ">(J) Operational and safety implications;</p>
         <p outputclass="List4" class="- topic/p ">(K) Other national security considerations
(such as how the requested waiver will contribute to national security
policy or operational security);</p>
         <p outputclass="List4" class="- topic/p ">(L) A description of the contractor’s efforts
to develop and implement a corrective plan to ensure future compliance; and</p>
         <p outputclass="List4" class="- topic/p ">(M) Information helpful to a determination
as to whether any noncompliance was knowing and willful.</p>
         <p outputclass="List3" class="- topic/p ">(iii) The Director, Defense Procurement
and Acquisition Policy, will forward the request to USD(A&amp;S)
as appropriate.</p>
      </conbody>
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