---
kind: "section"
citation: "41 U.S.C. § 6308"
title: "41"
title_heading: "Public Contracts"
number: "6308"
heading: "Contracts for transportation of Federal Government securities"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/41/6308"
units:
  - "Subtitle II — Other Advertising and Contract Provisions"
  - "Chapter 63 — General Contract Provisions"
---

# §6308. Contracts for transportation of Federal Government securities


When practicable, a contract for transporting bullion, cash, or securities of the Federal Government shall be awarded to the lowest responsible bidder after notice to all parties with means of transportation.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 111–350, § 3, Jan. 4, 2011, 124 Stat. 3806.)

## Notes

| Historical and Revision Notes |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Revised<br>Section | Source (U.S. Code) | Source (Statutes at Large) |
| 6308 | 41:24. | July 7, 1884, ch. 332, (words after “fifty five thousand dollars” in 3d par. under heading “Miscellaneous Objects Under the Treasury Department”), 23 Stat. 204. |

The words “bullion, cash, or securities of the Federal Government” are substituted for “moneys, bullion, coin, notes, bonds, and other securities of the United States, and paper” to eliminate unnecessary words. The word “awarded” is substituted for “let” to use more modern terminology.