---
kind: "section"
citation: "41 U.S.C. § 151"
title: "41"
title_heading: "Public Contracts"
number: "151"
heading: "Agency head"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/41/151"
units:
  - "Subtitle I — Federal Procurement Policy"
  - "Division A — General"
  - "Chapter 1 — Definitions"
  - "Subchapter III — Division C Definitions"
---

# §151. Agency head


In division C, the term “agency head” means the head or any assistant head of an executive agency, and may at the option of the Administrator of General Services include the chief [official](/usc/41/2101.md?p=5) of any principal organizational unit of the General Services Administration.


## 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) |
| 151 | 41:259(a). | June 30, 1949, ch. 288, title III, § 309(a), 63 Stat. 397. |