31 U.S.C. § 6301
Section 6301 · Purposes
Amended 1 time on record
Applied in 25 court decisions — leading case 323 F. Supp. 2d 151 - United States v. President and Fellows of Harvard College (2004)
Most recently applied in Foster Logging, Inc. v. United States (August 2020)
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year.Markers show enactment, consequential amendments, and circuit splits over this section — watch for a citation surge after a change or a disagreement. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
The purposes of this chapter are to—
(1) promote a better understanding of United States Government expenditures and help eliminate unnecessary administrative requirements on recipients of Government awards by characterizing the relationship between executive agencies and contractors, States, local governments, and other recipients in acquiring property and services and in providing United States Government assistance;
(2) prescribe criteria for executive agencies in selecting appropriate legal instruments to achieve—
(A) uniformity in their use by executive agencies;
(B) a clear definition of the relationships they reflect; and
(C) a better understanding of the responsibilities of the parties to them; and
(3) promote increased discipline in selecting and using procurement contracts, grant agreements, and cooperative agreements, maximize competition in making procurement contracts, and encourage competition in making grants and cooperative agreements.
Editorial notes U.S. Code · Office of the Law Revision Counsel
In the chapter, the words “procurement contract” are substituted for “contract” for consistency.
The text of 41:501(a) and (b)(4) is omitted as executed.