DCMA-INST 117
March 29, 2013
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3.3.12. Comply with all laws and regulations pertaining to prohibited items and items
requiring coordination prior to purchase such as (Reference (g)):
3.3.12.1. Prohibited items are identified in the DCMA GPC User’s Guide (reference (g)).
3.3.12.2. Purchases requiring coordination are included in the DCMA GPC User’s
Guide, chapter 2 (Reference (g)),, and include the following:
• Information Technology (IT): Individual Workstation Peripherals and
Consumable IT Supplies Valued At Less than $500
• IT: IT Acquisitions - Non-Programmed Acquisitions Valued At $3,000 Or Below
• IT: IT Acquisitions - Non-Programmed Acquisitions Valued At Over $3,000
• Civil engineer materials and real property (installed equipment). Authorizing
Official: Local facility manager
• Construction Authorizing Official: Local Contracting Office. Construction is
limited to $2,000.
• Hazardous and Potentially Hazardous Materials (e.g. acetone, alcohol, ether, etc).
Authorizing Official: Local facilities manager.
• Facility and planning and management
• Paid Advertisements
3.3.13. Reconcile monthly statement at Access Online promptly (Reference (g)).
3.3.14. Cardholder approves and reconciles each transaction posted to the statement, in the
bank system and with hard copy documents (Reference (g)).
3.3.15. Cardholder approves the statement in its entirety once all individual transactions
have been reconciled (Reference (g)).
3.3.16. Billing official reviews, approves, and certifies statement at Access Online
(Reference (g)).
3.3.17. Cardholder is locked out after 15 days from cycle end-date. In this situation the
billing official must act for the cardholder and approve transactions prior to being able to
approve and certify the statement (Reference (g)).
3.3.18. If unable to resolve any issue with the merchant, cardholder shall start the dispute
process in Access Online (Reference (g)).
3.4. USE THE GPC TO MAKE CONTRACT PAYMENTS.
3.4.1. Warranted contracting officers may specify the use of a GPC as the method of
payment on a contract. The contract shall include FAR 52.232-36, Payment by Third Party
(Reference (b)).