Yes.

Here is why, and it is not because I am cold, and it is not because I am unusually correct, and by the end of that year I was neither of those things.

I am a contracting officer with an unlimited warrant.

That word does a lot of work and most people do not know it, so: a contracting officer’s warrant is a document.

It is called a Certificate of Appointment.

It is signed by an appointing official, it has my name on it, and it states the authority I hold and any limit on it.