---
kind: "section"
citation: "48 C.F.R. § 570.601"
title: "48"
number: "570.601"
heading: "General."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/48/570.601"
---

# §570.601. General.

- (a) Lease tenant agencies may need overtime services and utilities on a regular or intermittent basis. Lease contracting officers may negotiate overtime rates for services and utilities and include those rates in leases where a need is projected. Only lease contracting officers may negotiate overtime rates.
- (b) **An independent government estimate is required in support of the negotiated rate.**
- (c) **Order.** To order overtime services and utilities, if the order does not exceed the simplified acquisition threshold, a warranted contracting officer's representative, in GSA or the tenant agency, may place an order. The order must reference the lease number.
- (d) **Payment.** Do not make final payment for services and utilities until confirmed as delivered in a satisfactory manner.

## Notes

### Source

Source: 76 FR 30853, May 27, 2011, unless otherwise noted.

### Authority

Authority: 40 U.S.C. 121(c).

### Source

Source: 64 FR 37265, July 9, 1999, unless otherwise noted.