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Glossary term

Service Contract Act (SCA)

The law requiring prevailing wages and fringe benefits for service employees on federal service contracts.

The McNamara-O'Hara Service Contract Act requires contractors on covered service contracts above a dollar threshold to pay service employees no less than the locally prevailing wages and fringe benefits set out in a Department of Labor wage determination attached to the solicitation. SCA wage determinations are not optional inputs to your price — they are floors, and mispricing them is a common and costly error.

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  • compliance
  • labor

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