Easing Disruption for America’s Small Contractor Act of 2020

Bill: 116-hr-6307
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Houlahan, Chrissy [D-PA-6]
Introduced: 2020-03-19
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Cardiovascular and respiratory health

Emergency medical services and trauma care

Infectious and parasitic diseases

Public contracts and procurement

Small business
Latest action: action_date: 2020-03-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Small Business.

Summaries:
action_date: 2020-03-19
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><b>Easing Disruption for America's Small Contractor Act of 2020</b></p> <p>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).</p> <p>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.</p> <p>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. </p>

tv_txt: I 116th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 6307 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.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Easing Disruption for America’s Small Contractor Act of 2020 . 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.