commercial items


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commercial items

Articles of supply readily available from established commercial distribution sources which the Department of Defense or inventory managers in the Military Services have designated to be obtained directly or indirectly from such sources.
Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms. US Department of Defense 2005.
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MULTAN -- Customs Multan is going to auction non-custom-paid vehicles and other commercial items here on September 25 and 26.
The panel's report noted that, despite the simplification of requirements for the purchase of commercial items in the Federal Acquisition Streamlining Act of 1994 (FASA) and the Federal Acquisition Reform Act of 1996 (FARA), "commercial buying has not become as widespread in DoD as Congress had hoped."
Next, what if a firm only sells commercial items to the government?
The write-up on summer products was very informative and interesting as it highlighted numerous features of summer-specific products and commercial items. Considering the fact that summer tends to be the longest season of the year in our region, it is necessary for advertisers to accentuate the 'summer element' in those products as well which are used in winter.
Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Part 12 sets forth policies and procedures unique to commercial items, establishes acquisition policies that more closely resemble the commercial marketplace and identifies the laws and regulations from which commercial item contractors are exempt.
He added that he requested the Yemeni parties to show cooperation with the Djibouti-based UN mechanism to verify and inspect commercial items heading for Yemen through Al-Hodeida, Al-Silaif and Al-Makha ports.
This will help to facilitate the unimpeded flow of commercial items and humanitarian aid to Yemen, said EU High Representative Federica Mogherini and EU Commissioner for Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Management Christos Stylianides on Yemen, in a joint statement released here last night.
"If we are able to make significant progress on DOD's commercial items agenda," she writes, "the result will be more capable, affordable and more rapidly obtainable systems at a time when our military is in great need of all these characteristics."
Our convoy of commercial items, including 200 tonnes of sugar and 150 tonnes of washing powder, is not allowed to enter Afghanistan," he complained.
The organizers of this Science Exhibition are hopeful that some of these achievements of the students would be picked up by organizations and they would further develop them as commercial items.
Commercial items test program ceiling will be raised from $5.5 million to $6.5 million.

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