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Government Contracting: Subcontracting Program
The Small Business Administration published this proposed rule in the Federal Register on December 19, 2024. Comments closed on February 18, 2025.
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What the agency says
The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) proposes to revise its Small Business Subcontracting Program regulations to encourage faster payments to small business subcontractors and streamline the reporting process for prime contracts. This proposed rule will require prime contractors notify contracting officers in writing when it fails to make full or timely payments to the subcontractor within 30 days past due; require prime contractors cooperate with contracting officers to correct/mitigate this failure until payment is made in full to the subcontractor; and allow contracting officers to modify a prime contractor's past performance for failure to make full or timely payments.
Key facts
- Document number
- 2024-29267
- Type
- Proposed rule
- Action
- Proposed rule
- Agency
- Small Business Administration
- Published
- December 19, 2024
- Comments due
- February 18, 2025
- Dates
- Comments must be received on or before February 18, 2025.
- Regulation ID (RIN)
- 3245-AI09
- Code of Federal Regulations
- 13 CFR 125
- Topics
- Government contracts; Government procurement; Reporting and recordkeeping requirements; Small businesses
- Significant
- Yes, under Executive Order 12866
- Pages
- 9
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