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FAR and DFARS › DFARS Part 252: Solicitation Provisions and Contract Clauses › Subpart 252.2

DFARS 252.217-7011 Access to vessel.

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 clause requires the contractor to allow a reasonable number of government employees, other government contractor employees, and representatives of offerors for other contemplated government work to access the contractor's facilities and the vessel when the Contracting Officer requests it. This matters because it lets the government and other potential bidders inspect or work on the vessel, but only on a non-interference basis and subject to the contractor's shipyard rules.

Applies to: Contractors performing work on a vessel under a government contract that includes this clause

What it requires

  • Grant admission to the contractor's facilities and access to the vessel upon the Contracting Officer's request
  • Allow access on a non-interference basis to a reasonable number of specified personnel
  • Ensure all personnel granted access comply with the contractor's shipyard rules

Key terms: Contracting Officer · non-interference basis · vessel · Contractor's facilities · shipyard

Written by AI from this section's text. A guide, not legal advice: the text below rules.

The text

As prescribed at 217.7104(a), use the following clause:

Access to Vessel (DEC 1991)

(a) Upon the request of the Contracting Officer, the Contractor shall grant admission to the Contractor's facilities and access to vessel, on a non-interference basis, as necessary to perform their respective responsibilities, to a reasonable number of:

(1) Government and other Government contractor employees (in addition to those Government employees attached to the vessel); and

(2) Representatives of offerors on other contemplated Government work.

(b) All personnel granted access shall comply with Contractor rules governing personnel at its shipyard.

(End of clause)

Sections it refers to

Sections that refer to it

← 252.217-7010 Performance. · 252.217-7012 Liability and insurance. →

Rule changes for DFARS Part 252

Source: eCFR, 48 CFR chapters 1 and 2 (GPO GovInfo bulk data) ↗. Plain words for the terms: glossary.

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