DoD Contracting: Techniques to Ensure Timely Payments to Subcontractors

Abstract

Subcontractors depend on cash flow generated by progress or other periodic payments from prime contractors to meet payrolls and pay other bills. A long-standing congressional concern is whether federal prime contractors are paying subcontractors in a timely manner. Payments to subcontractors sometimes constitutes well over 50 percent of the prime contract costs. This report responds to section 806 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 1992 and 1993, which requires GAO to (1) identify existing statuatory and regulatory provisions that help provide timely payments to subcontractors working on federal contracts and (2) evaluate the feasibility and desirability of additional proposed payment protections for subcontractors that are enumerated in the legislation.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 1993
Accession Number
ADA265324

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