### Question
Can you define what personal services contract means?


### Answer
**Personal services contract** is defined as the following in *10 U.S.C. § 2330a*:

> a contract under which, as a result of its terms or conditions or the manner of its administration during performance, contractor personnel are subject to the relatively continuous supervision and control of one or more Government officers or employees, except that the giving of an order for a specific article or service, with the right to reject the finished product or result, is not the type of supervision or control that makes a contract a personal services contract

#### Citation:
  - *10 U.S.C. § 2330a*
  - Heading: **Subtitle A-General Military Law > PART IV-SERVICE, SUPPLY, AND PROCUREMENT > CHAPTER 137-PROCUREMENT GENERALLY**

