---
kind: "section"
citation: "41 U.S.C. § 132"
title: "41"
title_heading: "Public Contracts"
number: "132"
heading: "Competitive procedures"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/41/132"
units:
  - "Subtitle I — Federal Procurement Policy"
  - "Division A — General"
  - "Chapter 1 — Definitions"
  - "Subchapter II — Division B Definitions"
---

# §132. Competitive procedures


In division B, the term “competitive procedures” means procedures under which an agency enters into a contract pursuant to full and open competition.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 111–350, § 3, Jan. 4, 2011, 124 Stat. 3682.)

## Notes

| Historical and Revision Notes |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Revised<br>Section | Source (U.S. Code) | Source (Statutes at Large) |
| 132 | 41:403(5). | Pub. L. 93–400, § 4(5), formerly § 4(6), as added Pub. L. 98–369, title VII, § 2731(3), July 18, 1984, 98 Stat. 1195; redesignated as § 4(5), Pub. L. 100–679, § 3(c), Nov. 17, 1988, 102 Stat. 4056; Pub. L. 103–355, title VIII, § 8001(b)(1)–(3), Oct. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 3386. |