---
kind: "section"
citation: "48 C.F.R. § 637.103"
title: "48"
number: "637.103"
heading: "Contracting officer responsibility."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/48/637.103"
---

# §637.103. Contracting officer responsibility.

- (a)
  - (2) The Office of the Legal Adviser is the DOS legal counsel for the purposes of FAR 37.103(a)(2).
- (e) The Contracting Officer shall review the Forms DS-4208 submitted by requiring activities, not contract for inherently governmental functions and assist in implementation of mitigation strategies for efforts that are closely associated with inherently governmental functions. A copy of the DS-4208 shall be retained in the contract file.

## Notes

### Amendments

[53 FR 26176, July 11, 1988, as amended at 80 FR 6922, Feb. 9, 2015]

### Authority

Authority: 22 U.S.C. 2651a, 40 U.S.C. 121(c) and 48 CFR chapter 1.

### Source

Source: 53 FR 26176, July 11, 1988, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[53 FR 26176, July 11, 1988, as amended at 80 FR 6922, Feb. 9, 2015]