General Lab Information

Clause H.9 - Additional Definitions

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(a) “CH” means the DOE Office of Science, Chicago Office.

(b) “Contractor” means “the Offeror” as specified in Block 15A of Standard Form 33, Section A entitled “Solicitation, Offer and Award” of the contract.

(c) The term “DOE” means the Department of Energy, “NNSA” means the National Nuclear Security Administration.

(d) The term "DOE Directive" means DOE Policies, Orders, Notices, Manuals, Regulations, Technical Standards and related documents, and Guides, including for purposes of this contract those portions of DOE's Accounting and Procedures Handbook applicable to integrated Contractors, issued by DOE. The term does not include temporary written instructions by the Contracting Officer for the purpose of addressing short-term or urgent DOE concerns relating to health, safety, or the environment.

(e) “Head of Agency” means: (i) The Secretary; (ii) Deputy Secretary; (iii) Under Secretaries of the Department of Energy; and (iv) the Chairman, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.

(f) “Head of Contracting Activity” for the Office of Science means the Deputy Director of Field Operations.

(g) “Laboratory” means the Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) composed of Government-owned buildings and facilities together with the necessary utilities, now existing or hereafter to be acquired, constructed and equipped, most of which are or will be situated on a plot or plots of land at Upton, New York (Suffolk County, Long Island).

(h) The term “non-profit organization” means:

(1) a university or other institution of higher education,

(2) an organization of the type described in section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 as amended and exempt from taxation under section 501(a) and the Internal Revenue Code,

(3) any nonprofit scientific or educational organization qualified as a nonprofit by the laws of the State of its organization or incorporation, or

(4) a combination of qualifying entities organized for a nonprofit purpose (e.g., partnership, joint venture or limited liability company) each member of which meets the requirements of (1), (2), or (3) above.

(i) The term “Senior Procurement Executive” means for:

(1) Department of Energy - Director, Office of Acquisition and Project Management; and

(2) National Nuclear Security Administration - Associate Administrator for Acquisition and Project Management.