TITLE 48 - FEDERAL ACQUISITION REGULATIONS SYSTEM

CHAPTER 34 - DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION ACQUISITION REGULATION

SUBCHAPTER A - GENERAL

PART 3404 - ADMINISTRATIVE MATTERS

3404.170 - Ratification of unauthorized contract awards.

The execution of otherwise proper contracts made by individuals without contracting authority, or by contracting officers acting in excess of the limits of their delegated authority, may be later ratified by the Department. To be effective, a ratification must be (a) A written document clearly stating that ratification of a previously unauthorized act is intended; and (b) Signed by the HCA, or higher level official of the Department, who could have granted authority to enter into the commitment at the time it was made and still has the power to do so.

[53 FR 19120, May 26, 1988]