Fixed-price contracts

Section 9 of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 638) is amended— (1) in subsection (f), by adding at the end the following: (5) Fixed-price contract Any funding agreement that is a contract made with expenditures allocated to the SBIR program under paragraph (1) shall be a firm-fixed-price contract (as defined in section 16.202 of the Federal Acquisition Regulation), unless, on a case-by-case basis, the head of the awarding Federal agency makes a written determination to utilize a different contract structure.; and (2) in subsection (n), as amended by section 101, by adding at the end the following: (5) Fixed-price contract Any funding agreement that is a contract made with expenditures allocated to the STTR program under paragraph (1) shall be a firm-fixed-price contract (as defined in section 16.202 of the Federal Acquisition Regulation), unless the head of the awarding Federal agency makes a written determination to utilize a different contract structure..