---
kind: "section"
citation: "48 C.F.R. § 2301.101"
title: "48"
number: "2301.101"
heading: "Purpose."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/48/2301.101"
---

# §2301.101. Purpose.

- (a) The Social Security Acquisition Regulation (SSAR) is issued to establish uniform acquisition policies and procedures for the Social Security Administration (SSA) which conform to the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) System.
- (b) **The SSAR implements and supplements the FAR.** (Implementing material expands upon or indicates the manner of compliance with related FAR material. Supplementing material refers to policies or procedures which have no corresponding counterpart in the FAR.)
- (c) The SSAR contains only formal agency policies and procedures which have a significant effect beyond SSA's internal operating procedures or which have a significant cost or administrative impact on contractors or offerors.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 5 U.S.C. 301, 40 U.S.C. 486(c).

### Source

Source: 61 FR 50738, Sept. 27, 1996, unless otherwise noted.