# 52.232-14 Notice of Availability of Progress Payments Exclusively for Small Business Concerns.
Type: Provision
Prescribed in: 32.502-3(b)
Current version date: APR 1984

## Prescription and Applicability

### FAR Prescription, 32.502-3(b)

(b)
(1) Under the authority of the statutes cited in 32.101, an invitation for bids may restrict the availability of progress payments to small business concerns only.

(2) The contracting officer shall insert the provision at 52.232-14, Notice of Availability of Progress Payments Exclusively for Small Business Concerns, in invitations for bids if it is anticipated that-

(i) Both small business concerns and others may submit bids in response to the same invitation; and

(ii) Only the small business bidders would need progress payments.

## Current Text

52.232-14 Notice of Availability of Progress Payments Exclusively for Small Business Concerns.

As prescribed in 32.502-3(b)(2), insert the following provision in invitations for bids if it is anticipated that (a) both small business concerns and others may submit bids in response to the same invitation and (b) only the small business bidders would need progress payments:

Notice of Availability of Progress Payments Exclusively for Small Business Concerns (APR 1984)

The Progress Payments clause will be available only to small business concerns. Any bid conditioned upon inclusion of a progress payment clause in the resulting contract will be rejected as nonresponsive if the bidder is not a small business concern.

(End of provision)

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Reference: https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-48/section-52.232-14