---
kind: "section"
citation: "41 U.S.C. § 3104"
title: "41"
title_heading: "Public Contracts"
number: "3104"
heading: "Small business concerns"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/41/3104"
units:
  - "Subtitle I — Federal Procurement Policy"
  - "Division C — Procurement"
  - "Chapter 31 — General"
---

# §3104. Small business concerns


It is the policy of Congress that a fair proportion of the total purchases and contracts for property and services for the Federal Government shall be placed with small business concerns.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 111–350, § 3, Jan. 4, 2011, 124 Stat. 3744.)

## Notes

| Historical and Revision Notes |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Revised<br>Section | Source (U.S. Code) | Source (Statutes at Large) |
| 3104 | 41:252(b). | June 30, 1949, ch. 288, title III, § 302(b), 63 Stat. 393; July 12, 1952, ch. 703, § 1(m), 66 Stat. 594; Pub. L. 98–369, div. B, title VII, § 2714(a)(1)(A), July 18, 1984, 98 Stat. 1184. |

The word “declared” is omitted as unnecessary.