---
kind: "section"
citation: "41 U.S.C. § 103a"
title: "41"
title_heading: "Public Contracts"
number: "103a"
heading: "Commercial service"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/41/103a"
units:
  - "Subtitle I — Federal Procurement Policy"
  - "Division A — General"
  - "Chapter 1 — Definitions"
  - "Subchapter I — Subtitle Definitions"
---

# §103a. Commercial service


In this subtitle, the term “commercial service” means any of the following:

- (1) Installation services, maintenance services, repair services, training services, and other services if—
  - (A) those services are procured for support of a commercial product, regardless of whether the services are provided by the same source or at the same time as the commercial product; and
  - (B) the source of the services provides similar services contemporaneously to the general public under terms and conditions similar to those offered to the Federal Government;
- (2) Services of a type offered and sold competitively, in substantial quantities, in the commercial marketplace—
  - (A) based on established catalog or market prices;
  - (B) for specific tasks performed or specific outcomes to be achieved; and
  - (C) under standard commercial terms and conditions.
- (3) A service described in paragraph [(1)](#1) or [(2)](#2), even though the service is transferred between or among separate divisions, subsidiaries, or affiliates of a contractor.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 115–232, div. A, title VIII, § 836(a)(1), Aug. 13, 2018, 132 Stat. 1860.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section effective Jan. 1, 2020, subject to a savings provision, see section 836(h) of Pub. L. 115–232, set out as an Effective Date of 2018 Amendment; Savings Provision note under section 453b of Title 6, Domestic Security.