---
kind: "section"
citation: "48 C.F.R. § 209.270-3"
title: "48"
number: "209.270-3"
heading: "Policy."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/48/209.270-3"
---

# §209.270-3. Policy.

- (a) The head of the contracting activity responsible for procuring an aviation or ship critical safety item may enter into a contract for the procurement, modification, repair, or overhaul of such an item only with a source approved by the head of the design control activity.
- (b) The approval authorities specified in this section apply instead of those otherwise specified in FAR 9.202(a)(1), 9.202(c), or 9.206-1(c), for the procurement, modification, repair, and overhaul of aviation or ship critical safety items.

## Notes

### Amendments

[73 FR 1827, Jan. 10, 2008]

### Authority

Authority: 41 U.S.C. 1303 and 48 CFR chapter 1.

### Source

Source: 56 FR 36313, July 31, 1991, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[73 FR 1827, Jan. 10, 2008]