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         <ph props="autonumber" class="- topic/ph ">501.603-4</ph> Termination.</title>
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         <ol id="d33e13" class="- topic/ol ">
            <li class="- topic/li ">
               <p id="d32e18" class="- topic/p ">
                  <ph props="autonumber" class="- topic/ph ">(a)</ph>
                  
                    The
SPE has the authority to suspend or terminate any GSA contracting
officer appointment in any organizational component of the agency.
SPE suspensions or terminations of warrants may not be overridden
by any other GSA appointing official.</p>
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               <p id="d32e27" class="- topic/p ">
                  <ph props="autonumber" class="- topic/ph ">(b)</ph>
                  
                    At
any time, an HCA may terminate an appointment, change a permanent
warrant to an interim warrant, reduce the warrant level, or refuse
to accept a warrant from another contracting activity.</p>
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            <li class="- topic/li ">
               <p id="d32e36" class="- topic/p ">
                  <ph props="autonumber" class="- topic/ph ">(c)</ph>
                  
                    The
supervisor of record must notify the BCM within the organization
when a contracting officer does any of the following:</p>
               <ol id="d33e41" class="- topic/ol ">
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                     <p id="d32e46" class="- topic/p ">
                        <ph props="autonumber" class="- topic/ph ">(1)</ph>
                        
                          Resigns.</p>
                  </li>
                  <li class="- topic/li ">
                     <p id="d32e55" class="- topic/p ">
                        <ph props="autonumber" class="- topic/ph ">(2)</ph>
                        
                          Transfers
to another agency.</p>
                  </li>
                  <li class="- topic/li ">
                     <p id="d32e64" class="- topic/p ">
                        <ph props="autonumber" class="- topic/ph ">(3)</ph>
                        
                          Is
reassigned to another office within GSA.</p>
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                     <p id="d32e73" class="- topic/p ">
                        <ph props="autonumber" class="- topic/ph ">(4)</ph>
                        
                          Is
terminated, or otherwise disciplined, for malfeasance or incompetence.</p>
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                     <p id="d32e82" class="- topic/p ">
                        <ph props="autonumber" class="- topic/ph ">(5)</ph>
                        
                          Does
not need the appointment.</p>
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                  <li class="- topic/li ">
                     <p id="d32e92" class="- topic/p ">
                        <ph props="autonumber" class="- topic/ph ">(6)</ph>
                        
                          Fails
to comply with experience, education or training requirements.</p>
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               <p id="d32e103" class="- topic/p ">
                  <ph props="autonumber" class="- topic/ph ">(d)</ph>
                  
                    Managers
within the supervisory chain-of-command may at any time, suspend
a contracting officer's appointment for any of the following:</p>
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                     <p id="d32e113" class="- topic/p ">
                        <ph props="autonumber" class="- topic/ph ">(1)</ph>
                        
                          There
is reason to believe that the contracting officer failed to exercise
sound business judgment.</p>
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                  <li class="- topic/li ">
                     <p id="d32e122" class="- topic/p ">
                        <ph props="autonumber" class="- topic/ph ">(2)</ph>
                        
                          There
is reason to believe that the contracting officer engaged in other
improprieties in carrying out contracting officer responsibilities.</p>
                  </li>
                  <li class="- topic/li ">
                     <p id="d32e131" class="- topic/p ">
                        <ph props="autonumber" class="- topic/ph ">(3)</ph>
                        
                          Failure
of the contracting officer to comply with continuous learning requirements.</p>
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            </li>
            <li class="- topic/li ">
               <p id="id18BUE0TF07S" class="- topic/p ">
                  <ph props="autonumber" class="- topic/ph ">(e)</ph>
                  
                    If
a contracting officer with a PBS National Acquisition Warrant or
PBS National Leasing Warrant–</p>
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                     <p id="id18BUE0TF0DU" class="- topic/p ">
                        <ph props="autonumber" class="- topic/ph ">(1)</ph>
                        
                          Transfers to another
office within PBS, the gaining PBS office must validate the organizational
need for the national warrant and issue a new national warrant via
FAITAS. In the absence of validation, the warrant is terminated with
no replacement.</p>
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                  <li class="- topic/li ">
                     <p id="id18BUE0TF06J" class="- topic/p ">
                        <ph props="autonumber" class="- topic/ph ">(2)</ph>
                        
                          Transfers
to an office outside of PBS, the warrant is terminated.</p>
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            </li>
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               <p id="id19C4G0UL0TP" class="- topic/p ">
                  <ph props="autonumber" class="- topic/ph ">(f)</ph>
                  
                    If a contracting officer
with a PBS National Site Acquisition Warrant transfers to another
office outside of PBS Central Office, National Center for Site Acquisition,
Real Property Valuation, the warrant is terminated.</p>
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