{"identifier":"/us/usc/t50/s3072","title":50,"num":"\u00a7\u202f3072.","heading":"Authority of Federal Bureau of Investigation to award personal services contracts","text":"\u00a7\u202f3072.\nAuthority of Federal Bureau of Investigation to award personal services contracts\n(a)\nIn general\nThe 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.\n(b)\nInapplicability of certain requirements\nContracts under subsection (a) shall not be subject to the annuity offset requirements of sections 8344 and 8468 of title 5, the requirements of\nsection 3109 of title 5\n(c)\nContract to be appropriate means of securing services\nThe 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.","url":"https://projectusc.org/usc/t50/s3072.html","content":[{"t":"sec","id":"/us/usc/t50/s3072","children":[{"t":"num","text":"\u00a7\u202f3072."},{"t":"heading","text":"Authority of Federal Bureau of Investigation to award personal services contracts"},{"t":"subsec","id":"/us/usc/t50/s3072/a","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(a)"},{"t":"heading","text":"In general"},{"t":"content","children":[{"t":"p","text":"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.","tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"},{"t":"subsec","id":"/us/usc/t50/s3072/b","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(b)"},{"t":"heading","text":"Inapplicability of certain requirements"},{"t":"content","children":[{"t":"p","text":"Contracts under subsection (a) shall not be subject to the annuity offset requirements of sections 8344 and 8468 of title 5, the requirements of ","children":[{"t":"ref","text":"section 3109 of title 5","href":"/us/usc/t5/s3109","tail":", or any law or regulation requiring competitive contracting."}],"tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"},{"t":"subsec","id":"/us/usc/t50/s3072/c","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(c)"},{"t":"heading","text":"Contract to be appropriate means of securing services"},{"t":"content","children":[{"t":"p","text":"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.","tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"},{"t":"text","text":"\n"},{"t":"text","text":"\n"}]}]}