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FAR and DFARS › FAR Part 52: Solicitation Provisions and Contract Clauses › Subpart 52.2

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

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 provision tells bidders that progress payments will only be available to small business concerns when an invitation for bids is expected to draw both small and other-than-small bidders. If a bidder is not a small business concern and makes its bid contingent on getting a progress payment clause, that bid will be rejected as nonresponsive.

Applies to: Bidders on invitations for bids where both small business concerns and others may bid and only small business bidders would need progress payments

Key terms: progress payments · small business concern · nonresponsive · invitations for bids

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

The text

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)

Sections it refers to

Sections that refer to it

← 52.232-13 Notice of Progress Payments. · 52.232-15 Progress Payments Not Included. →

Rule changes for FAR Part 52

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

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