---
kind: "section"
citation: "48 C.F.R. § 242.1105"
title: "48"
number: "242.1105"
heading: "Assignment of criticality designator."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/48/242.1105"
---

# §242.1105. Assignment of criticality designator.

- (1) **Contracting officers shall—**
  - (i) Assign criticality designator A to items with a priority 01, 02, 03, or 06 (if emergency supply of clothing) under DoD Manual 4140.01, Volume 5, DoD Supply Chain Materiel Management Procedures: Delivery of Materiel; and
  - (ii) **Ordinarily assign criticality designator C to unilateral purchase orders.**
- (2) Only the contracting officer shall change the assigned designator.

## Notes

### Amendments

[56 FR 36437, July 31, 1991, as amended at 67 FR 61516, Oct. 1, 2002, 82 FR 61481, Dec. 28, 2017]

### Authority

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

### Source

Source: 56 FR 36437, July 31, 1991, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[56 FR 36437, July 31, 1991, as amended at 67 FR 61516, Oct. 1, 2002, 82 FR 61481, Dec. 28, 2017]