---
kind: "section"
citation: "48 C.F.R. § 1315.303"
title: "48"
number: "1315.303"
heading: "Responsibilities."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/48/1315.303"
---

# §1315.303. Responsibilities.


The contracting officer is designated as the source selection authority for competitive negotiated acquisitions of less than $10,000,000. The source selection authority for large dollar competitive negotiated acquisitions of $10,000,000 or more is the head of the operating unit. The head of the operating unit may re-delegate the authority to a Department manager who is at an organizational level above the contracting officer and who has sufficient rank and professional experience to effectively carry out the functions of a source selection authority.


## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 41 U.S.C. 414; 48 CFR 1.301-1.304.

### Source

Source: 75 FR 10570, Mar. 8, 2010, unless otherwise noted.