The Colombian State in the development of its constitutional and legal purposes must develop projects and programs for which it requires the contracting of services of people considered suitable for the fulfillment of non-missionary and temporary functions: before which one of the figures most used by the government is that of the contract for the provision of services characterized, among other things, by the non-generation of a labor relationship that grants rights established in the law and that with the passage of time has been considered a figure harmful to the interests of the contractors engaged under this type of contract.In the present work, a dogmatic study was carried out on the historical, constitutional, legal and jurisprudential evolution of the contract for the provision of services in Colombia in order to establish if this binding figure, used excessively during the last twenty years by the State, directly violates the rights of contractors by camouflaging under this modality a true labor relationship with the elements that characterize it according to the substantive Colombian labor code.From the present investigation derives the need to reform this contracting mechanism and promote the generation of new positions in the personnel plants of public entities in order to reduce the number of contracts signed of this type and to safeguard public assets by not foster new labor demands.