---
kind: "section"
citation: "48 C.F.R. § 801.602-3"
title: "48"
number: "801.602-3"
heading: "Ratification of unauthorized commitments."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/48/801.602-3"
---

# §801.602-3. Ratification of unauthorized commitments.

- (a) This section applies to unauthorized commitments, including any commitment made by a contracting officer that exceeds that contracting officer's contracting authority and unauthorized commitments made by a Government representative who lacked the authority to enter into that agreement on behalf of the Government.
- (b) **The approving authority and ratification official for unauthorized commitments is the HCA.** This authority may be delegated to the chief of the contracting office or the equivalent for unauthorized commitments below $25,000.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 38 U.S.C. 8123; 38 U.S.C. 8153; 38 U.S.C. 8303; 40 U.S.C. 121(c); 41 U.S.C. 1702; and 48 CFR 1.301 through 1.304.

### Source

Source: 87 FR 70744, Nov. 21, 2022, unless otherwise noted.