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FAR 32.502-3 Solicitation provisions.

The codified text (eCFR, as of 2026-10-02). Under the Revolutionary FAR Overhaul ↗, agencies follow class deviations with new text for many parts while the formal rules go through the Federal Register: check the solicitation and your contract's clauses, which rule.

In plain English

This section tells contracting officers which progress-payment notices to put in solicitations. It matters to contractors because the notice in a solicitation signals whether progress payments are available, restricted to small businesses, or not offered at all.

Applies to: Contracting officers preparing invitations for bids and requests for proposals

What it requires

  • Insert the provision at 52.232-13, Notice of Progress Payments, in invitations for bids and requests for proposals that include a Progress Payments clause.
  • Insert the provision at 52.232-14, Notice of Availability of Progress Payments Exclusively for Small Business Concerns, in invitations for bids when both small business concerns and others may bid and only small business bidders would need progress payments.
  • Insert the provision at 52.232-15, Progress Payments Not Included, in invitations for bids if the solicitation will not contain one of the provisions prescribed in paragraphs (a) and (b).

Key terms: progress payments · invitation for bids · request for proposals · small business concerns · solicitation

Written by AI from this section's text. A guide, not legal advice: the text below rules.

The text

(a) The contracting officer shall insert the provision at 52.232-13, Notice of Progress Payments, in invitations for bids and requests for proposals that include a Progress Payments clause.

(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 (1) both small business concerns and others may submit bids in response to the same invitation and (2) only the small business bidders would need progress payments.

(c) The contracting officer shall insert the provision at 52.232-15, Progress Payments Not Included, in invitations for bids if the solicitation will not contain one of the provisions prescribed in paragraphs (a) and (b) above.

Sections it refers to

  • 52.232-13 Notice of Progress Payments.
  • 32.101 Authority.
  • 52.232-14 Notice of Availability of Progress Payments Exclusively for Small Business Concerns.
  • 52.232-15 Progress Payments Not Included.

Sections that refer to it

  • 52.232-13 Notice of Progress Payments.
  • 52.232-14 Notice of Availability of Progress Payments Exclusively for Small Business Concerns.
  • 52.232-15 Progress Payments Not Included.

← 32.502-2 Contract finance office clearance. · 32.502-4 Contract clauses. →

Rule changes for FAR Part 32

Source: eCFR, 48 CFR chapters 1 and 2 (GPO GovInfo bulk data) ↗. Plain words for the terms: glossary.

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