---
kind: "section"
citation: "48 C.F.R. § 46.502"
title: "48"
number: "46.502"
heading: "Responsibility for acceptance."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/48/46.502"
---

# §46.502. Responsibility for acceptance.


Acceptance of supplies or services is the responsibility of the contracting officer. When this responsibility is assigned to a cognizant contract administration office or to another agency (see 42.202(g)), acceptance by that office or agency is binding on the Government.


## Notes

### Amendments

[48 FR 42415, Sept. 19, 1983, as amended at 63 FR 9065, Feb. 23, 1998]

### Authority

Authority: 40 U.S.C. 121(c); 10 U.S.C. chapter 4 and 10 U.S.C. chapter 137 legacy provisions (see 10 U.S.C. 3016); and 51 U.S.C. 20113.

### Source

Source: 48 FR 42415, Sept. 19, 1983, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[48 FR 42415, Sept. 19, 1983, as amended at 63 FR 9065, Feb. 23, 1998]