The Prompt Payment Act, as amended, requires executive-branch agencies, including the Department of Defense (DoD), to pay late-payment penalties when they do not pay their invoices for commercial payments on time. DoD's Prompt Payment Act implementing regulations provide that DoD components should take advantage of discounts offered when a contract or invoice allows an economically justified discount for early payment. Given concern that DoD sometimes incurred late-payment penalties and had ...
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