48 CFR §570.601
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- (a)Lease tenant agencies may need overtime services and utilities on a regular or intermittent basis. Lease contracting officers may negotiate overtime rates for services and utilities and include those rates in leases where a need is projected. Only lease contracting officers may negotiate overtime rates.
- (b)An independent government estimate is required in support of the negotiated rate.
- (c)Order. To order overtime services and utilities, if the order does not exceed the simplified acquisition threshold, a warranted contracting officer's representative, in GSA or the tenant agency, may place an order. The order must reference the lease number.
- (d)Payment. Do not make final payment for services and utilities until confirmed as delivered in a satisfactory manner.