2018 US Code
Title 10 - Armed Forces
Subtitle C - Navy and Marine Corps
Part IV - General Administration
Chapter 873 - Procurement of Supplies and Services
Sec. 8752 - Contracts for research

(a) The Secretary of the Navy and, by direction of the Secretary, the Chief of Naval Research and the chiefs of bureaus may, without advertising, make contracts or amendments or modifications of contracts for services and materials necessary to conduct research and to make or secure reports, tests, models, or apparatus. A contractor supplying such services or materials need not be required to furnish a bond.

(b) This section does not authorize the use of the cost-plus-a-percentage-of-cost system of contracting.

(Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 464, §7522; Pub. L. 96–513, title V, §513(38), Dec. 12, 1980, 94 Stat. 2934; Pub. L. 97–258, §3(b)(9), Sept. 13, 1982, 96 Stat. 1064; Pub. L. 98–525, title XIV, §1405(56)(B), Oct. 19, 1984, 98 Stat. 2626; Pub. L. 103–355, title II, §2001(j)(2), Oct. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 3303; renumbered §8752, Pub. L. 115–232, div. A, title VIII, §807(d)(7), Aug. 13, 2018, 132 Stat. 1836.)

In subsection (a) reference to R.S. 3718, 3719, 3720, and 3722 (34 U.S.C. 561, 562, 563, and 572) is omitted because these sections were expressly repealed by §11(a) of the Act of February 19, 1948, ch. 65, 62 Stat. 25. The words "without advertising" are substituted for the reference to R.S. 3709 (41 U.S.C. 5) for brevity and clarity. The sentence "A contractor supplying such services or materials need not be required to furnish a bond" is substituted for the words "without performance or other bonds" for clarity, since the provision is interpreted as a discretionary authority in the Secretary to waive bond.

In subsection (c) the words "This section does not authorize" are substituted for the words "nothing in this section shall be construed to authorize".

A prior section 8752 was renumbered section 9282 of this title.

2018—Pub. L. 115–232 renumbered section 7522 of this title as this section.

1994—Subsecs. (b), (c). Pub. L. 103–355 redesignated subsec. (c) as (b) and struck out former subsec. (b) which read as follows: "Subsections (a) and (b) of section 3324 of title 31 do not apply to advance, progress, or other payments made with respect to a contract under this section."

1984—Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 98–525 substituted "Subsections (a) and (b) of section 3324 of title 31 do" for "Section 3324(a) and (b) of title 31 does".

1982—Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 97–258 substituted "section 3324(a) and (b) of title 31" for "section 3648 of the Revised Statutes (31 U.S.C. 529)".

1980—Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 96–513 substituted "Section 3648 of the Revised Statutes (31 U.S.C. 529)" for "Section 529 of title 31".

Amendment by Pub. L. 115–232 effective Feb. 1, 2019, with provision for the coordination of amendments and special rule for certain redesignations, see section 800 of Pub. L. 115–232, set out as a note preceding section 3001 of this title.

For effective date and applicability of amendment by Pub. L. 103–355, see section 10001 of Pub. L. 103–355, set out as a note under section 2302 of this title.

Amendment by Pub. L. 96–513 effective Dec. 12, 1980, see section 701(b)(3) of Pub. L. 96–513, set out as a note under section 101 of this title.