2.  Domestic Non-Availability Determination (DNAD) Exception

a.  Individual DNADs.

Food, Clothing, Fabrics, and Hand or Measuring Tools. When a contractor asserts that a domestic food, clothing, fabric, and hand or measuring tool Domestic Non-Availability Determination (DNAD) is required; the DNAD (See Addendum) must be coordinated through SAF/AQCK and submitted to the Secretary of the Air Force for approval. The Secretary of the Air Force can grant a DNAD if compliant food, clothing, fabrics, and hand or measuring tools of satisfactory quality and sufficient quantity, and in the required form, cannot be procured as and when needed. This approval authority is not delegable. This exception should not be read to require that the compliant material/item must be totally unavailable, i.e., cannot be obtained at any cost. There is some cost limit that should be recognizable by a Contracting Officer, and that a reasonable person would agree, makes the material/item effectively "unavailable."

b.  Class DNADs.

Food, Clothing, Fabric, and Hand or Measuring Tools. Contracting Officers may continue to use OUSD (AT&L) approved class DNADs that cover food, clothing, fabrics, and hand or measuring tools for new contracts if the DNAD was signed by the Undersecretary of Defense (OUSD (AT&L)) or by a Service Secretary. The OUSD (AT&L) DNADs that are currently available for reciprocal use are posted on the DCMA Website. If a class DNAD is used, the Contracting Officer must prepare a Determination and Finding (D&F) approved by the Senior Contracting Official (SCO) or for AFMC and AFSPC the Senior Center Contracting Official (SCCO). This approval may not be further delegated. The Contracting Officer shall obtain legal review to support the determination.