§4824 — Title 22 Foreign Relations and Intercourse | U.S. Code

Summary

The Secretary of State can hire people or groups by contract to do the work needed under the law. Those contract workers are not treated as U.S. government employees for laws run by the Office of Personnel Management. The Secretary of State can decide if any employment laws the Secretary runs apply to those workers. The Secretary may also make, set terms for, and carry out those contracts even if doing so requires ignoring some federal rules about how contracts are made or where the work must be done.

Title 22, §4824

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The Secretary of State is authorized to employ individuals or organizations by contract to carry out the purposes of this Act, and individuals employed by contract to perform such services shall not by virtue of such employment be considered to be employees of the United States Government for purposes of any law administered by the Office of Personnel Management (except that the Secretary may determine the applicability to such individuals of any law administered by the Secretary concerning the employment of such individuals); and such contracts are authorized to be negotiated, the terms of the contracts to be prescribed, and the work to be performed, where necessary, without regard to such statutory provisions as relate to the negotiation, making and performance of contracts and performance of work in the United States.

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References in Text

This Act, referred to in text, is Pub. L. 99–399, Aug. 27, 1986, 100 Stat. 853, known as the Omnibus Diplomatic Security and Antiterrorism Act of 1986. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see

Short Title

note set out under section 4801 of this title and Tables.

§4824 Contracting authority