---
kind: "section"
citation: "48 C.F.R. § 37.109"
title: "48"
number: "37.109"
heading: "Services of quasi-military armed forces."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/48/37.109"
---

# §37.109. Services of quasi-military armed forces.


Contracts with Pinkerton Detective Agencies or similar organizations are prohibited by [5 U.S.C. 3108](/usc/5/3108.md). This prohibition applies only to contracts with organizations that offer quasi-military armed forces for hire, or with their employees, regardless of the contract's character. An organization providing guard or protective services does not thereby become a quasi-military armed force, even though the guards are armed or the organization provides general investigative or detective services. (See 57 Comp. Gen. 524).


## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 40 U.S.C. 121(c); 10 U.S.C. chapter 4 and 10 U.S.C. chapter 137 legacy provisions (see 10 U.S.C. 3016); and 51 U.S.C. 20113.

### Source

Source: 48 FR 42365, Sept. 19, 1983, unless otherwise noted.