Title: Easing Disruption for America’s Small Contractor Act of 2020
Policy area: Commerce

Summary:
Easing Disruption for America's Small Contractor Act of 2020
This bill requires a federal agency to provide a small business contractor with additional time to perform its responsibilities and to pay such contractor regardless of any delay or interruption that is due to COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019).
Specifically, a small business that is party to a contract with a federal agency and which experiences an adverse impact to its operations as a result of COVID-19 shall be provided with 90 additional days, or such additional time as deemed appropriate, to carry out its responsibilities under the contract.
Further, if such performance of a federal goods or services contract is unavoidably delayed or interrupted by the inability of the small business's employees to access government facilities or resources due to restrictions related to COVID-19, the government shall pay the entity, upon submission of required documentation, the prices stipulated in the contract for goods or services as if performance had been rendered.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6307 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6307

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


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 19, 2020

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

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                                 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.
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