FAR and DFARS › FAR Part 47: Transportation › Subpart 47.2
FAR 47.208-1 Advance notice.
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 says that military and some civilian receiving points need advance notice before contractor shipments arrive. Notice is generally required only for certain shipments, such as classified, sensitive, controlled, or protected material, explosives and some hazardous materials, shipments needing movement control, or minimum carload or truckload shipments. Giving notice helps the destination prepare and can avoid demurrage and vehicle detention charges.
Applies to: Contractors shipping to military and certain civilian storage, distribution, depot, and receiving activities
What it requires
- Provide advance notice of shipments en route from contractor plants when the shipment falls into the categories described
Key terms: advance notice · classified material · sensitive, controlled, and certain other protected material · demurrage · vehicle detention charges
Written by AI from this section's text. A guide, not legal advice: the text below rules.
The text
Military (and as required, civilian agency) storage and distribution points, depots, and other receiving activities require advance notice of shipments en route from contractors' plants. Generally, this notification is required only for classified material; sensitive, controlled, and certain other protected material; explosives, and some other hazardous materials; selected shipments requiring movement control; or minimum carload or truckload shipments. It facilitates arrangements for transportation control, labor, space, and use of materials handling equipment at destination. Also, timely receipt of notices by the consignee transportation office precludes the incurring of demurrage and vehicle detention charges.
← 47.208 Report of shipment (REPSHIP). · 47.208-2 Contract clause. →
Rule changes for FAR Part 47
- Federal Acquisition Regulation: Revolutionary Federal Acquisition Regulation Overhaul Parts 9, 27, and 47 ↗ · proposed 2026-09-18 · comments due 2026-10-19
- Federal Acquisition Regulation: Training To Prevent Human Trafficking for Certain Air Carriers; Correction ↗ · final rule 2024-12-30 · effective 2025-01-03
- Federal Acquisition Regulation: Training To Prevent Human Trafficking for Certain Air Carriers ↗ · final rule 2024-12-16 · effective 2025-01-03
Source: eCFR, 48 CFR chapters 1 and 2 (GPO GovInfo bulk data) ↗. Plain words for the terms: glossary.