NFS part 1802

PART 1802

DEFINITIONS OF WORDS AND TERMS

1802.000 Scope of part.

Commonly used words and terms are defined in FAR Subpart 2.1. This Part 1802 gives NASA-specific meanings of some of these words and terms and defines other words and terms commonly used in the NASA acquisition process.

Subpart 1802.1--Definitions

1802.101 Definitions.

The following words and terms are used throughout this Regulation as defined in this subpart unless--

(a) The context in which they are used clearly requires a different meaning; or

(b) A different definition is prescribed for a particular part or portion of a part.

"Administrator" means the Administrator or Deputy Administrator of NASA.

"Associate Administrator for Procurement" means the Associate Administrator for Procurement, Office of Procurement, NASA Headquarters (Code H).

"Contracting activity" in NASA includes each "installation" as defined in this section 1802.101.

"Contracting office" means the same thing as the previously used term "procurement office."

"FAR" means the Federal Acquisition Regulation as codified at 48 CFR chapter 1.

"Field installation" means Ames Research Center, Dryden Flight Research Center, Goddard Space Flight Center, John F. Kennedy Space Center, Langley Research Center, Lewis Research Center, Johnson Space Center, George C. Marshall Space Flight Center, Space Station Program Office, John C. Stennis Space Center, or any other field installation established by NASA in the future.

"Head of the agency" or "agency head" means the Administrator or Deputy Administrator of NASA.

"Head of the contracting activity" means, for field installations, the Director or other head and, for NASA Headquarters, the Associate Administrator for Procurement.

"Installation" means NASA Headquarters or any field installation and is synonymous with "contracting activity."

"Procurement" means the same thing as "acquisition," as defined in FAR 2.101.

"Procurement officer" means the chief of the contracting office, as defined in FAR 2.101.