---
kind: "section"
citation: "40 U.S.C. § 3132"
title: "40"
title_heading: "Public Buildings, Property, and Works"
number: "3132"
heading: "Alternatives to payment bonds provided by Federal Acquisition Regulation"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/40/3132"
units:
  - "Subtitle II — Public Buildings and Works"
  - "Part A — General"
  - "Chapter 31 — General"
  - "Subchapter III — Bonds"
---

# §3132. Alternatives to payment bonds provided by Federal Acquisition Regulation

- (a) **In General.—** The Federal Acquisition Regulation shall provide alternatives to payment bonds as payment protections for suppliers of labor and materials under contracts referred to in [section 3131(a) of this title](/usc/40/3131.md?p=a) that are more than $25,000 and not more than $100,000.
- (b) **Responsibilities of Contracting Officer.—** The contracting officer for a contract shall—
  - (1) select, from among the payment protections provided for in the Federal Acquisition Regulation pursuant to [subsection (a)](#a), one or more payment protections which the offeror awarded the contract is to submit to the [Federal Government](/usc/40/3701.md?p=a) for the protection of suppliers of labor and materials for the contract; and
  - (2) specify in the solicitation of offers for the contract the payment protections selected.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 107–217, Aug. 21, 2002, 116 Stat. 1148.)

## Notes

| Historical and Revision Notes |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Revised<br>Section | Source (U.S. Code) | Source (Statutes at Large) |
| 3132 | 40:270a note. | Pub. L. 103–355, title IV, § 4104(b)(2), Oct. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 3342. |