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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>57154</law_id><section_number>2.2-5512</section_number><catch_line>Definitions</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="2.2">Administration of Government</unit><unit label="subtitle" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="II">Administration of State Government</unit><unit label="part" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="B">Transaction of Public Business</unit><unit label="chapter" level="4" order_by="1" identifier="55.2">Competitive Government Act</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>As used in this chapter:
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Commercial activity</span>&#x201D; means an activity performed by or for state government that is not an inherently governmental activity and that may feasibly be obtained from a <span class="dictionary">commercial source</span> at lower cost than the activity being performed by <span class="dictionary">state employees</span>.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Commercial source</span>&#x201D; means any business or other private concern that is eligible for <span class="dictionary">contract</span> awarded in accordance with the Public-Private Education and Infrastructure Act of 2002 (&#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Definitions" href="/56-575.1/">56-575.1</a> et seq.) or the Virginia Public Procurement Act (&#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Short title; purpose; declaration of intent" href="/2.2-4300/">2.2-4300</a> et seq.).
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">State employee</span>&#x201D; means all persons employed by the Commonwealth to provide services, including both salaried and wage employees, and all persons engaged to perform work for or to provide services to the Commonwealth.</p></section></text><history>2004, c. 994.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
