§ 5B-1.101 Establishment of Chapter 5B, General Services Administration Procurement Regulations.

This Chapter 5B of the General Services Administration Procurement Regulations (GSPR) is prescribed by the Commissioner, Public Buildings Service, and is established to provide all Public Buildings Service (PBS) activities with additional uniform operating policies and procedures applicable to the procurement of personal property and nonpersonal services (including construction).

§ 5B-1.102 Relationship of Chapter 5B to the FPR and Chapter 5.

(a) GSPR Chapter 5B implements and supplements the FPR and GSPR Chapter 5. Implementing material is that which expands upon related FPR and Chapter 5 material. Supplementing material is that for which there is no counterpart in the FPR or Chapter 5.

(b) Material published in the FPR or Chapter 5 becomes effective throughout PBS upon the effective date of the particular FPR or Chapter 5 material. Such material will not be repeated, paraphrased, or restated in Chapter 5B. Therefore, all three must be reviewed to obtain comprehensive coverage of PBSwide procurement operating policies and procedures.

(c) Material in Chapter 5B implements and supplements but does not supersede the FPR or Chapter 5 unless a deviation has been authorized and the deviation is explicitly referenced. In cases of other conflict, or when Chapter 5B contains no related material implementing the FPR or Chapter 5, the FPR or Chapter 5 will govern.

§ 5B-1.103 Applicability.

Chapter 5B applies to all purchases and contracts made by PBS for the procurement of personal property and nonpersonal services (including construction).

§ 5B-1.104 Method of issuance.

(a) All Chapter 5B material deemed necessary for business concerns, and others interested, to understand PBS procurement operating policies and procedures will be published in the FEDERAL REGISTER. Other related material also may be published in the FEDERAL REGISTER When its inclusion will provide a

(a) Certain PBS procurement policies and procedures which come within the scope of this chapter nevertheless may be excluded therefrom when there is justification. These exclusions include

the following categories:

(1) Subject matter which bears a security classification.

(2) Policy or procedures which are expected to be effective for a period of less than six months.

(3) Policies or procedures which are effective on an experimental basis for a reasonable period.

(4) Policies or procedures pertaining to other functions of PBS as well as to procurement functions and there is need to make the issuance available simultaneously to all PBS employees concerned.

(5) Where speed of issuance is essential, numerous changes are required, and all necessary changes cannot be made promptly.

(b) Procurement policies and procedures issued in other than the FPR System format under paragraphs (a) (4) and (a) (5), above, will be codified into Chapter 5B at the earliest practicable date, but in any event not later than six months from date of issuance.

cept that the first digit of the number is either 1, 5, or 5B.

(b) Where Chapter 5B implements a part, subpart, section, or subsection of the FPR or Chapter 5, the implementing part, subpart, section, or subsection of Chapter 5B will be numbered (and captioned) to correspond to the FPR or the Chapter 5 part, subpart, section, or subsection.

(c) Where Chapter 5B supplements the FPR or Chapter 5 and thus deals with subject matter not contained in the FPR or Chapter 5, the numbers 70 through 89 will be assigned to the respective supplementing parts, subparts, sections, or subsections.

(d) Where the subject matter contained in a part, subpart, section, or subsection of the FPR or Chapter 5 requires no implementation, Chapter 5B will contain no corresponding part, subpart, section, or subsection number. Thus, there may be gaps in the Chapter 5B series of part, subpart, section, or subsection numbers. In such cases, reference is made to the FPR and Chapter 5 for policy and procedure applicable throughout PBS.