Factoring government receivables has been available for many years. Although the small/medium businesses may not be as knowledgeable about factoring or accounts receivable financing, it is still available to them. Factoring has become more common place since more small/medium sized businesses have been proactively going after the huge market of government spending. The government endorses factoring since it passed of the Assignment of Claims Act which gives the contractor the ability to assign its invoices to a third party.