41 USC § 103a - Commercial service

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title: "41 USC § 103a - Commercial service"
title_number: 41
title_name: "PUBLIC CONTRACTS"
section_number: "103a"
section_name: "Commercial service"
chapter_number: 1
chapter_name: "DEFINITIONS"
subchapter_number: "I"
subchapter_name: "SUBTITLE DEFINITIONS"
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last_updated: "2026-04-17"
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source_credit: "(Added Pub. L. 115–232, div. A, title VIII, § 836(a)(1), Aug. 13, 2018, 132 Stat. 1860.)"
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# § 103a. Commercial service

In this subtitle, the term “commercial service” means any of the following:

**(1)** Installation services, maintenance services, repair services, training services, and other services if—

**(A)** those services are procured for support of a commercial product, regardless of whether the services are provided by the same source or at the same time as the commercial product; and

**(B)** the source of the services provides similar services contemporaneously to the general public under terms and conditions similar to those offered to the Federal Government;

**(2)** Services of a type offered and sold competitively, in substantial quantities, in the commercial marketplace—

**(A)** based on established catalog or market prices;

**(B)** for specific tasks performed or specific outcomes to be achieved; and

**(C)** under standard commercial terms and conditions.

**(3)** A service described in paragraph (1) or (2), even though the service is transferred between or among separate divisions, subsidiaries, or affiliates of a contractor.

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**Source Credit**: (Added Pub. L. 115–232, div. A, title VIII, § 836(a)(1), Aug. 13, 2018, 132 Stat. 1860.)

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