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50 USC § 3072 - Authority of Federal Bureau of Investigation to award personal services contracts 

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identifier: "/us/usc/t50/s3072"
source: "usc"
legal_status: "official_prima_facie"
title: "50 USC § 3072 - Authority of Federal Bureau of Investigation to award personal services contracts"
title_number: 50
title_name: "WAR AND NATIONAL DEFENSE"
section_number: "3072"
section_name: "Authority of Federal Bureau of Investigation to award personal services contracts"
chapter_number: 44
chapter_name: "NATIONAL SECURITY"
subchapter_number: "II"
subchapter_name: "MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS"
positive_law: false
currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2026-04-21"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
source_credit: "(July 26, 1947, ch. 343, title III, § 302, as added Pub. L. 108–177, title III, § 311(a)(1), Dec. 13, 2003, 117 Stat. 2605.)"
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# § 3072. Authority of Federal Bureau of Investigation to award personal services contracts

**(a)** **In general** The Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation may enter into personal services contracts if the personal services to be provided under such contracts directly support the intelligence or counterintelligence missions of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

**(b)** **Inapplicability of certain requirements** section 3109 of title 5

Contracts under subsection (a) shall not be subject to the annuity offset requirements of sections 8344 and 8468 of title 5, the requirements of , or any law or regulation requiring competitive contracting.

**(c)** **Contract to be appropriate means of securing services** The Chief Contracting Officer of the Federal Bureau of Investigation shall ensure that each personal services contract entered into by the Director under this section is the appropriate means of securing the services to be provided under such contract.

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**Source Credit**: (July 26, 1947, ch. 343, title III, § 302, as added Pub. L. 108–177, title III, § 311(a)(1), Dec. 13, 2003, 117 Stat. 2605.)

## Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was formerly classified to  prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.

### Prior Provisions

A prior section 302 of , ; , ; , , was classified to section 171c–2 of former Title 5, Executive Departments and Government Officers and Employees, prior to repeal by , , .