Contracting out
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Scope of this subject
Here are entered works on the practice by government agencies and business organizations of hiring a contractor to perform parts of an operation rather than performing the tasks themselves. Works on the engagement of third parties to perform all or specified parts of the work required in another, primary contract are entered under [Subcontracting.]
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Names and connections
Contract services; Contracting for services; Outsourcing; Services, Contracting for
- Broader: Letting of contracts
- Narrower: Academic libraries--Administration--Contracting out
- Narrower: Agricultural extension work--Contracting out
- Narrower: Auditing, Internal--Contracting out
- Narrower: Banks and banking--Contracting out
- Narrower: Banks and banking--Data processing--Contracting out
- Narrower: Business logistics--Contracting out
- Narrower: Campaign management--Contracting out
- Narrower: Cataloging--Contracting out
- Narrower: Community mental health services--Contracting out
- Narrower: Corporations--Accounting--Contracting out
- Narrower: Corrections--Contracting out
- Narrower: County services--Contracting out
- Narrower: Drug factories--Contracting out
- Narrower: Electronic data processing departments--Contracting out
- Narrower: Employees--Training of--Contracting out
- Narrower: Express service--Contracting out
- Narrower: Food service management--Contracting out
- Narrower: Food service--Contracting out
- Narrower: Forest management--Contracting out
- Narrower: Government libraries--Administration--Contracting out
- Narrower: Hazardous waste site remediation--Contracting out
- Narrower: Home care services--Contracting out
- Narrower: Hospital care--Contracting out
- Narrower: Human services--Contracting out
- Narrower: Hydrographic surveying--Contracting out
- Narrower: Information services--Contracting out
- Narrower: Information technology--Contracting out
- Narrower: Intelligence service--Contracting out
- Narrower: Juvenile corrections--Contracting out
- Narrower: Legal services--Contracting out
- Narrower: Letter mail handling--Contracting out
- Narrower: Libraries--Automation--Contracting out
- Narrower: Life care communities--Management--Contracting out
- Narrower: Local transit--Contracting out
- Narrower: Logistics--Contracting out
- Narrower: Manufactures--Contracting out
- Narrower: Medical care--Contracting out
- Narrower: Municipal services--Contracting out
- Narrower: National cemeteries--Contracting out
- Narrower: Nursing home care--Contracting out
Up to 40 narrower headings are shown. Full Library of Congress authority record
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Numeric address and provenance
Morton address: 10126488916002488896 · morton4x16-v1
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