FAR and DFARS › FAR Part 23: Environment, Sustainable Acquisition, and Material Safety › Subpart 23.5
FAR 23.501 Policy.
The codified text (eCFR, as of 2026-10-02). Under the Revolutionary FAR Overhaul ↗, agencies follow class deviations with new text for many parts while the formal rules go through the Federal Register: check the solicitation and your contract's clauses, which rule.
In plain English
This section states that certain offerors registered in SAM and awarded $7.5 million or more in Federal contracts in the prior fiscal year must make representations about their greenhouse gas emissions disclosures. It matters because it requires those contractors to report whether they publicly disclose emissions and reduction goals, and to provide the relevant website.
Applies to: Offerors registered in SAM that received $7.5 million or more in Federal contract awards in the prior Federal fiscal year
What it requires
- Represent whether they publicly disclose greenhouse gas emissions
- Represent whether they publicly disclose a quantitative greenhouse gas emissions reduction goal
- Provide the website for any such disclosures
Key terms: greenhouse gas emissions · System for Award Management (SAM) · Federal contract awards · prior Federal fiscal year · quantitative greenhouse gas emissions reduction goal
Written by AI from this section's text. A guide, not legal advice: the text below rules.
The text
In order to better understand both direct and indirect greenhouse gas emissions that result from Federal activities, offerors that are registered in the System for Award Management (SAM) and received $7.5 million or more in Federal contract awards in the prior Federal fiscal year are required to—
(a) Represent whether they publicly disclose greenhouse gas emissions;
(b) Represent whether they publicly disclose a quantitative greenhouse gas emissions reduction goal; and
(c) Provide the website for any such disclosures.
← 23.500 Scope of subpart. · 23.502 Solicitation provision. →
Rule changes for FAR Part 23
- Federal Acquisition Regulation: Inflation Adjustment of Acquisition-Related Thresholds ↗ · final rule 2025-08-27 · effective 2025-10-01
- Federal Acquisition Regulation: Disclosure of Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Climate-Related Financial Risk ↗ · proposed 2025-01-13
- Federal Acquisition Regulation: Inflation Adjustment of Acquisition-Related Thresholds ↗ · proposed 2024-11-29 · comments due 2025-01-28
- Federal Acquisition Regulation; Technical Amendments ↗ · final rule 2024-07-30 · effective 2024-08-29
- Federal Acquisition Regulation: Sustainable Procurement ↗ · final rule 2024-04-22 · effective 2024-05-22
- Federal Acquisition Regulation: Improving Consistency Between Procurement and Nonprocurement Procedures on Suspension and Debarment ↗ · proposed 2024-01-09 · comments due 2024-03-11
Source: eCFR, 48 CFR chapters 1 and 2 (GPO GovInfo bulk data) ↗. Plain words for the terms: glossary.