217.7801 Definitions.

"Non-DOD contracts" are contracts awarded by an official outside the DOD. These include Federal Supply Schedules (FSS) and other contracts/schedules awarded by non-DOD entities.

"Processing Fee" is the fee charged by the servicing activity to place a task or delivery order against an existing contract based on an outgoing Military Interdepartmental Purchase Request (MIPR)or a Reimbursable Order for "assisted acquisitions." The fee associated with "direct acquisitions" may be embedded in the price; e.g., the General Services Administration (GSA) has a .075% fee embedded in their GSA Federal Supply Schedule contract prices. For direct acquisitions, the fee charged by the Defense Information Technology Contracting Organization (DITCO) is not considered a processing fee for purposes of the reporting requirements.

"Requirement Official (RO)" is the Program, Project, or Service Manager responsible for identifying, developing and/or managing the acquisition requirement.

"Requiring Activity Contracting Office" is the contracting office that normally provides the contracting support to the requirements office (i.e., for DISA requirements this would be the applicable DITCO contracting office).

"Servicing Activity" is the department/agency/activity outside of DOD with contracting responsibility for a DOD requirement.

"Simplified Acquisition Threshold (SAT)" is $150,000, except for the acquisition of supplies and/or services that, as determined by the head of the agency, are to be used to support a contingency operation or to facilitate defense against or recovery from nuclear, biological, chemical, or radiological attack (41 U.S.C. 428a ). (1) $300,000 for any contract to be awarded and performed, or purchase to be made inside the United States and (2) $1 million for any contract to be awarded and performed, or purchase to be made, outside the United States.