The Contracting Education Academy, a Georgia Tech unit dedicated to supporting the professional education needs of the government’s contracting workforce, has launched a special webpage devoted to providing information and guidance dealing with the impact of COVID-19 on federal contracts.
The webpage, located here, presents helpful information to both contracting officials and contractors who are navigating the current contracting environment.
Numerous topics are addressed on the webpage. For Contracting Officers and other members of the federal acquisition workforce, topics include:
- Teleworking by contractor employees
- Quarantine restrictions and excusable delays
- Equitable adjustments
- Extending performance periods
- Contract modifications
- Maintaining a contractor state of readiness
- Application of the Stafford Act
- Communication and transparency in contract administration
- DoD emergency acquisition and preparedness
- Tracking COVID-19 contract spending
- The Defense Production Act
- The Defense Priorities and Allocations System
- GSA Schedule purchasing
- Fraud and price gouging
For the contractor community, the following topics are addressed on the webpage:
- Preventing workplace exposure and risks
- Identifying critical infrastructure industries
- The System for Award Management (SAM)
- Excusable delay contract provisions
- Changes clauses
- Obligation to perform
- The Defense Priorities and Allocations System
- DoD progress payments
- Sales through GSA Schedules
- Advice for small businesses
- Economic disaster loans
- The Families First Coronavirus Response Act
Additional information and updates will be added as often as daily to the site. We suggest you bookmark the site now and check back frequently for the latest news involving the impact of coronavirus on federal contracts.
