---
kind: "section"
citation: "15 U.S.C. § 637b"
title: "15"
title_heading: "Commerce and Trade"
number: "637b"
heading: "Availability of information"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/15/637b"
units:
  - "Chapter 14A — Aid to Small Business"
---

# §637b. Availability of information

- (a) **Requests for information—** For any contract to be let by any [Federal agency](/usc/15/632.md?p=b), such [agency](/usc/15/632.md?p=b) shall provide to any [small business concern](/usc/15/636e.md?p=6) upon its request—
  - (1) a copy of bid sets and specifications with respect to such contract;
  - (2) the name and telephone number of an employee of such [agency](/usc/15/632.md?p=b) to answer questions with respect to such contract; and
  - (3) adequate citations to each major Federal law or [agency](/usc/15/632.md?p=b) rule with which such business concern must comply in performing such contract.
- (b) **Exempt contracts—** [Subsection (a)](#a) shall not apply to any contract or [subcontract](/usc/15/632.md?p=dd-1) under such contract which—
  - (1) will be performed entirely outside any [State](/usc/15/15g.md?p=2), territory, or possession of the United States, the District of Columbia, or the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico; or
  - (2) is for services which are personal in nature.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 95–507, title II, § 223, Oct. 24, 1978, 92 Stat. 1772.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was not enacted as part of the Small Business Act which comprises this chapter.