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FAR 28.203-4 Solicitation provision and contract clause.

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 tells contracting officers when to include two specific solicitation provisions and contract clauses about individual sureties who pledge assets. It matters to contractors because it determines whether these individual surety requirements will appear in the solicitation or contract they are bidding on or performing.

Applies to: Solicitations requiring bid guarantees, and solicitations and contracts requiring performance or payment bonds

What it requires

  • Insert the provision at 52.228-17, Individual Surety—Pledge of Assets (Bid Guarantee), in solicitations that require the submission of a bid guarantee.
  • Insert the clause at 52.228-11, Individual Surety—Pledge of Assets, in solicitations and contracts that require the submission of performance or payment bonds.

Key terms: bid guarantee · performance or payment bonds · individual surety · pledge of assets · solicitation provision

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

The text

(a) Insert the provision at 52.228-17, Individual Surety—Pledge of Assets (Bid Guarantee), in solicitations that require the submission of a bid guarantee.

(b) Insert the clause at 52.228-11, Individual Surety—Pledge of Assets, in solicitations and contracts that require the submission of performance or payment bonds.

Sections it refers to

  • 52.228-17 Individual Surety—Pledge of Assets (Bid Guarantee).
  • 52.228-11 Individual Surety—Pledge of Assets.

Sections that refer to it

  • 52.228-11 Individual Surety—Pledge of Assets.
  • 52.228-17 Individual Surety—Pledge of Assets (Bid Guarantee).

← 28.203-3 Release of security interest. · 28.203-5 Exclusion of individual sureties. →

Rule changes for FAR Part 28

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

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