[Federal Register Volume 59, Number 73 (Friday, April 15, 1994)]
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[FR Doc No: 94-9234]
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[Federal Register: April 15, 1994]
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Office of the Assistant Secretary for Administration
[Docket No. D-94-1059; FR-3697-D-02]
Redelegation of Procurement Authority
AGENCY: Office of the Assistant Secretary for Administration, HUD.
ACTION: Notice of redelegation of procurement authority.
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SUMMARY: This notice implements the initial phase of the field
reorganization for the Office of Administration by revoking all current
redelegations of procurement authority and consolidating all
procurement authority redelegated to HUD headquarters and field staff.
EFFECTIVE DATE: April 12, 1994.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Edward L. Girovasi, Jr., Director,
Policy and Evaluation Division, Office of Procurement and Contracts,
room 5262, 451 7th Street SW., Washington, DC 20410, (202) 708-0294.
(This is not a toll-free number.)
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In November of 1993, the Secretary announced
the reorganization of HUD's field structure to improve HUD's
performance and provide HUD's customers--members of the public and
program beneficiaries--more efficient service and less bureaucracy by
empowering HUD employees to serve HUD's customers more effectively. In
implementing this objective, the Secretary determined to remove the
Regional organizational layer and provide officials at lower
organizational levels full authority to carry out program functions,
with these field office officials reporting directly to program
officials.
In a Delegation of Authority published in today's Federal Register,
the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development revoked all current
delegations of procurement authority and consolidated into a single
document all procurement authority delegated to the Assistant Secretary
for Administration (the Department's Senior Procurement Executive).
This notice implements the initial phase of field reorganization for
the Office of Administration by revoking all current redelegations of
procurement authority and consolidating all procurement authority
redelegated to HUD headquarters and field staff.
Administrative Service Centers (ASCs) will be established over the
next two years to consolidate and expedite contracting, personnel,
accounting, facilities, management information, and other common
administrative support functions. Of those functions, only contracting
authority is currently redelegated to HUD Regional and Field Offices
and these redelegations of authority must therefore be revised to
reflect the removal of the Regional organizational layer in the new HUD
field organization. The final number and location of ASCs has not yet
been established; when these decisions have been made, an additional
notice of redelegation of authority will be published to reflect this
permanent field organizational structure. This notice, however, revokes
all procurement authority redelegated to Regional Administrators and
provides greater flexibility to field contracting officials to
redelegate procurement authority to qualified HUD field personnel as
may be necessary to meet workload demands.
Accordingly, the Assistant Secretary for Administration redelegates
as follows:
Section A. Redelegation of Authority
The Assistant Secretary for Administration, designated as the
Department's Senior Procurement Executive, redelegates the following
duties, responsibilities and powers:
1. The Director, Office of Procurement and Contracts, is designated
the Department's principal Contracting Officer and may:
a. Enter into and administer all procurement contracts and
interagency agreements for property and services required by the
Department (including the placement of paid advertisements in
newspapers);
b. Enter into and administer grants and cooperative agreements in
support of the Department's discretionary assistance programs;
c. Make determinations and findings regarding the use of advance
payments under FAR Subpart 32.4 with the concurrence of the
Administration Comptroller-Director, Office of Finance and Accounting;
and
d. Redelegate authority delegated by this notice to Headquarters
personnel as indicated below, provided they meet experience, education,
and training requirements established by the Senior Procurement
Executive:
(1) In a. and b. above to qualified Office of Procurement and
Contracts employees;
(2) Respecting the following purchasing procedures to qualified
Headquarters employees:
(i) Small purchases (FAR part 13);
(ii) Issuance of delivery orders under contracts established by
other Government sources (FAR part 8, e.g. GSA Federal Supply
Schedules) or under pre-priced indefinite-delivery contracts
established by the Department; and,
(iii) Purchases using the Government-wide Commercial Credit Card
system in accordance with the Department's directives governing credit
card purchasing.
2. The President of the Government National Mortgage Association
(``GNMA'') is authorized to exercise procurement authority with respect
to requirements related to GNMA's programmatic functions. The President
of GNMA is authorized to redelegate any of the powers or authority
redelegated to him or her to qualified GNMA employees.
3. Each Director, Regional Office of Administration, and Director,
Regional Contracting Division is designated as a Contracting Officer
and may, subject to any limitations imposed by the Senior Procurement
Executive:
a. Enter into and administer all procurement contracts and
interagency agreements for property and services required by the
Department (including the placement of paid advertisements in
newspapers) and grants and cooperative agreements in support of the
Department's discretionary assistance programs, with regard to
activities within his or her respective region;
b. Order a Limited Denial of Participation sanction, pursuant to
HUD regulations at 24 CFR 24.700;
c. Redelegate the award and administration of an individual or
class of procurement contracts, interagency agreements, or
discretionary grants and cooperative agreements to another Director,
Regional Contracting Division, with the concurrence of the Senior
Procurement Executive; and,
d. Redelegate the authority delegated by this Notice to any of the
following personnel, provided they meet experience, education, and
training requirements established by the Senior Procurement Executive:
(1) Regional Contracting Division personnel;
(2) Office of Housing personnel in State or Area Offices within the
region for procurement contracts concerning the management and/or
disposition of properties owned by HUD or subject to a mortgage where
HUD is mortgagee-in-possession under the National Housing Act (12
U.S.C. 1701-1749). As a minimum, this authority shall be delegated to
an Office of Housing management official designated by the Assistant
Secretary for Housing-Federal Housing Commissioner in each Field Office
for the following:
(i) Emergency procurement authority; and,
(ii) Small purchase authority in those Field Offices without full-
time contracting personnel.
(3) State or Area Office personnel within the region for:
(i) Small purchases (FAR part 13);
(ii) Issuance of delivery orders under contracts established by
other Government sources (FAR Part 8, e.g. GSA Federal Supply
Schedules) or under pre-priced indefinite-delivery contracts
established by the Department; and,
(iii) Purchases using the Governmentwide Commercial Credit Card
system, in accordance with the Department's directives governing credit
card purchasing.
Section B. Delegations Revoked
All current redelegations of authority concerning procurement are
hereby revoked including the following:
1. The redelegation of authority published on September 17, 1993 at
58 FR 48667;
2. The redelegation of authority published on March 11, 1993 at 58
FR 13496;
3. The redelegation of authority published on December 7, 1992 at
57 FR 57841;
4. The redelegation of authority published on April 8, 1992 at 57
FR 11963;
5. The redelegation of authority published on February 15, 1991 at
56 FR 6407; and,
6. The redelegation of authority published on October 17, 1985 at
50 FR 42098.
Authority: 41 U.S.C. 414(2); sec. 7(d), Department of Housing
and Urban Development Act (42 U.S.C. 3535(d)).
Dated: April 12, 1994.
Marilynn A. Davis,
Assistant Secretary for Administration.
[FR Doc. 94-9234 Filed 4-14-94; 8:45 am]
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