---
kind: "section"
citation: "48 C.F.R. § 225.401"
title: "48"
number: "225.401"
heading: "Exceptions."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/48/225.401"
---

# §225.401. Exceptions.

- (a)
  - (2)
    - (A) If a department or agency considers an individual acquisition of a product to be indispensable for national security or national defense purposes and appropriate for exclusion from the provisions of FAR [subpart 25.4](/cfr/48/subpart25.4.md), it may submit a request with supporting rationale to the Principal Director, Defense Pricing, Contracting, and Acquisition Policy (DPCAP), Office of the Under Secretary of Defense (Acquisition and Sustainment) (OUSD(A&S)DPCAP). Approval by OUSD(A&S)DPCAP is not required if—

      (1) Purchase from foreign sources is restricted by statute (see [subpart 225.70](/cfr/48/subpart225.70.md));

      (2) Another exception in FAR 25.401 applies to the acquisition; or

      (3) Competition from foreign sources is restricted under [subpart 225.71](/cfr/48/subpart225.71.md).

    - (B) Public interest exceptions for certain countries when acquiring products or services in support of operations in Afghanistan are in 225.7704-1.

## Notes

### Amendments

[75 FR 81916, Dec. 29, 2010, as amended at 88 FR 73236, Oct. 25, 2023; 89 FR 60831, July 29, 2024]

### Source

Source: 65 FR 19852, Apr. 13, 2000, unless otherwise noted.

### Authority

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

### Source

Source: 56 FR 36367, July 31, 1991, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[75 FR 81916, Dec. 29, 2010, as amended at 88 FR 73236, Oct. 25, 2023; 89 FR 60831, July 29, 2024]