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House Bill 6307
116th Congress(2019-2020)
Easing Disruption for America’s Small Contractor Act of 2020
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H. R. 6307 (Introduced-in-House)


116th CONGRESS
2d Session
H. R. 6307


To provide contracting flexibility to small business concerns, and for other purposes.

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

March 19, 2020

Ms. Houlahan introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Small Business

A BILL

To provide contracting flexibility to small business concerns, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. Short title.

This Act may be cited as the “Easing Disruption for America’s Small Contractor Act of 2020”.

SEC. 2. Small business contracting flexibility.

(a) Purpose.—The purpose of this section is to provide flexibility to small business Federal suppliers and to the Federal Government to more quickly award contracting dollars to small business concerns in times of economic uncertainty and downturn related to COVID–19.

(b) Covered entity defined.—In this section, the term “covered entity” means a small business concern that is a party to a contract with a Federal agency and experiences an adverse impact to the operations of the small business concern as a result of COVID–19.

(c) Promotion of small business contracting.—

(1) SMALL BUSINESS CONTRACTING RELIEF.—Notwithstanding any other provision of law or regulation, during the period beginning on the date of enactment of this section and ending on September 30, 2021, the head of the Federal agency with which a covered entity has a contract shall provide the covered entity with—

(A) 90 additional days to carry out the responsibilities of the covered entity under the contract; or

(B) an additional amount of time to carry out the responsibilities of the covered entity under the contract that the head of the Federal agency determines to be appropriate after taking into consideration the severity of the adverse impact experienced by the covered entity.

(2) PAYMENT CONTINUATION.—If the performance of all or any part of the work of a Federal goods or services contract in force and effect during the period beginning on the date of enactment of this section and ending on September 30, 2021, is unavoidably delayed or interrupted by the small business contractor employees’ inability to access Government facilities, systems, or other Government-provided resources due to restrictions related to COVID–19 that have been imposed by any authority or due to orders or instructions issued by the contracting agency in response to COVID–19, the Government shall pay the small business contractor, upon the submission of the documentation required by the contract and according to the terms specified in the contract, the prices stipulated in the contract for goods or services as if the small business contractor had rendered and the Government accepted the goods or services. Contractor delivery schedules shall be revised and small business contractors shall be eligible for equitable adjustments based on the revised schedules.