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FAR and DFARS › FAR Part 47: Transportation › Subpart 47.3

FAR 47.305-1 Solicitation requirements.

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 requires contracting officers to include a solicitation provision that offerors provide specific transportation and packaging data when supplies are acquired on f.o.b. origin or f.o.b. destination terms. The data helps the Government determine transportation costs and logistics. Contractors must be prepared to furnish this information in their offers.

Applies to: Solicitations for supplies with f.o.b. origin or f.o.b. destination delivery terms

What it requires

  • Furnish the Government as much of the listed data as is applicable to the particular acquisition

Key terms: f.o.b. origin · f.o.b. destination · freight classification · transit arrangements · contracting officer

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

The text

When the acquisition of supplies is on f.o.b. origin or f.o.b. destination delivery terms, the contracting officer shall include in solicitations a requirement that the offeror furnish the Government as much of the following data as is applicable to the particular acquisition:

(a) Modes of transportation and, if rail transportation is used, names of rail carriers serving the offeror's facility.

(b) The number of railroad cars, motor trucks, or other conveyances that can be loaded per day.

(c) Type of packaging; e.g., box, carton, crate, drum, bundle, skids, and when applicable, package number from the governing freight classification.

(d) Number of units packed in one container.

(e) Guaranteed maximum shipping weight; cubic measurement; and length, width, and height of each container.

(f) Minimum size of each shipment.

(g) Number of containers or units that can be loaded in a car, truck, or other conveyance of the size normally used (specify type and size) for the commodity.

(h) Description of material in terms of the governing freight classification or tariff (or Government rate tender) under which lowest freight rates are applicable.

(i) Benefits available to the Government under transit arrangements made by the offeror.

(j) Other requirements as stated under specific section headings.

← 47.305 Solicitation provisions, contract clauses, and transportation factors. · 47.305-2 Solicitations f.o.b. origin and f.o.b. destination—lowest overall cost. →

Rule changes for FAR Part 47

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

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