---
kind: "section"
citation: "41 U.S.C. § 4101"
title: "41"
title_heading: "Public Contracts"
number: "4101"
heading: "Definitions"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/41/4101"
units:
  - "Subtitle I — Federal Procurement Policy"
  - "Division C — Procurement"
  - "Chapter 41 — Task and Delivery Order Contracts"
---

# §4101. Definitions


In this chapter:

- (1) **Delivery order contract.—** The term “delivery order contract” means a contract for property that—
  - (A) does not procure or specify a firm quantity of property (other than a minimum or maximum quantity); and
  - (B) provides for the issuance of orders for the delivery of property during the period of the contract.
- (2) **Task order contract.—** The term “task order contract” means a contract for services that—
  - (A) does not procure or specify a firm quantity of services (other than a minimum or maximum quantity); and
  - (B) provides for the issuance of orders for the performance of tasks during the period of the contract.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 111–350, § 3, Jan. 4, 2011, 124 Stat. 3778.)

## Notes

| Historical and Revision Notes |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Revised<br>Section | Source (U.S. Code) | Source (Statutes at Large) |
| 4101 | 41:253k. | June 30, 1949, ch. 288, title III, § 303K, as added Pub. L. 103–355, title I, § 1054(a), Oct. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 3265. |