41 USC § 153 - Simplified acquisition threshold for contract in support of humanitarian or peacekeeping operation

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title: "41 USC § 153 - Simplified acquisition threshold for contract in support of humanitarian or peacekeeping operation"
title_number: 41
title_name: "PUBLIC CONTRACTS"
section_number: "153"
section_name: "Simplified acquisition threshold for contract in support of humanitarian or peacekeeping operation"
chapter_number: 1
chapter_name: "DEFINITIONS"
subchapter_number: "III"
subchapter_name: "DIVISION C DEFINITIONS"
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currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2026-04-17"
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source_credit: "(Pub. L. 111–350, § 3, Jan. 4, 2011, 124 Stat. 3683.)"
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# § 153. Simplified acquisition threshold for contract in support of humanitarian or peacekeeping operation

**(1)** **In general.—** In division C, the term “simplified acquisition threshold” has the meaning provided that term in section 134 of this title, except that, in the case of a contract to be awarded and performed, or purchase to be made, outside the United States in support of a humanitarian or peacekeeping operation, the term means an amount equal to two times the amount specified for that term in section 134 of this title.

**(2)** **Definition.—** In paragraph (1), the term “humanitarian or peacekeeping operation” means a military operation in support of the provision of humanitarian or foreign disaster assistance or in support of a peacekeeping operation under chapter VI or VII of the Charter of the United Nations. The term does not include routine training, force rotation, or stationing.

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**Source Credit**: (Pub. L. 111–350, § 3, Jan. 4, 2011, 124 Stat. 3683.)

| RevisedSection | Source (U.S. Code) | Source (Statutes at Large) |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 153(1) | 41:259(d)(1). | June 30, 1949, ch. 288, title III, § 309(d)(1), as added Pub. L. 103–355, title I, § 1551, Oct. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 3299; Pub. L. 104–201, title VIII, § 807(b)(1), (2), Sept. 23, 1996, 110 Stat. 2606. |
| 153(2) | 41:259(d)(2). | June 30, 1949, ch. 288, title III, § 309(d)(2), as added Pub. L. 104–201, title VIII, § 807(b)(3), Sept. 23, 1996, 110 Stat. 2606. |

In paragraph (1), the words “a contingency operation or”, and the text of , are omitted because the increased simplified acquisition threshold established under section 32A of the Office of Federal Procurement Policy Act () in the case of a contract to be awarded and performed, or purchase to be made, outside the United States in support of a contingency operation supersedes the threshold established under this section. Section 32A is restated as section 1903 of the revised title.