[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 29, Volume 1]
[Revised as of July 1, 2004]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 29CFR4.121]

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                             TITLE 29--LABOR
 
PART 4_LABOR STANDARDS FOR FEDERAL SERVICE CONTRACTS--Table of Contents
 
    Subpart C_Application of the McNamara-O'Hara Service Contract Act
 
Sec. 4.121  Contracts for individual services.

    The Act, in paragraph (6) of section 7, exempts from its provisions 
``any employment contract providing for direct services to a Federal 
agency by an individual or individuals.'' This exemption, which applies 
only to an ``employment contract'' for ``direct services,'' makes it 
clear that the Act's application to Federal contracts for services is 
intended to be limited to service contracts entered into with 
independent contractors. If a contract to furnish services (to be 
performed by a service employee as defined in the Act) provides that 
they will be furnished directly to the Federal agency by the individual 
under conditions or circumstances which will make him an employee of the 
agency in providing the contract service, the exemption applies and the 
contract will not be subject to the Act's provisions. The exemption does 
not exclude from the Act any contract for services of the kind performed 
by service employees which is entered into with an independent 
contractor whose individual services will be used in performing the 
contract, but as noted earlier in Sec. 4.113, such a contract would be 
outside the general coverage of the Act if only the contractor's 
individual services would be furnished and no service employee would in 
any event be used in its performance.