---
kind: "section"
citation: "41 U.S.C. § 4504"
title: "41"
title_heading: "Public Contracts"
number: "4504"
heading: "Conditions for progress payments"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/41/4504"
units:
  - "Subtitle I — Federal Procurement Policy"
  - "Division C — Procurement"
  - "Chapter 45 — Contract Financing"
---

# §4504. Conditions for progress payments

- (a) **Payment Commensurate With Work.—** The [executive agency](/usc/41/3302.md?p=a-1) shall ensure that a payment for work in progress (including materials, labor, and other items) under a contract of an [executive agency](/usc/41/3302.md?p=a-1) that provides for those payments is commensurate with the work accomplished that meets [standards](/usc/41/114.md) established under the contract. The contractor shall provide information and evidence the [executive agency](/usc/41/3302.md?p=a-1) determines is necessary to permit the [executive agency](/usc/41/3302.md?p=a-1) to carry out this subsection.
- (b) **Limitation.—** The [executive agency](/usc/41/3302.md?p=a-1) shall ensure that progress payments referred to in [subsection (a)](#a) are not made for more than 80 percent of the work accomplished under the contract as long as the [executive agency](/usc/41/3302.md?p=a-1) has not made the contractual terms, specifications, and price definite.
- (c) **Application.—** This section applies to a contract in an amount greater than $25,000.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 111–350, § 3, Jan. 4, 2011, 124 Stat. 3791.)

## Notes

| Historical and Revision Notes |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Revised<br>Section | Source (U.S. Code) | Source (Statutes at Large) |
| 4504 | 41:255(e). | June 30, 1949, ch. 288, title III, § 305(e), as added Pub. L. 103–355, title II, § 2051(e), Oct. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 3304, as amended Pub. L. 104–106, title XLIII, § 4321(a)(4), Feb. 10, 1996, 110 Stat. 671. |