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FAR and DFARS › FAR Part 47: Transportation › Subpart 47.5

FAR 47.507 Contract clauses.

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 the clause at 52.247-64, Preference for Privately Owned U.S.-Flag Commercial Vessels, in solicitations and contracts that may involve ocean transportation of supplies subject to the Cargo Preference Act of 1954. It also specifies when to use Alternate I or Alternate II of that clause, and allows additional clauses about vessels to be added under agency procedures. It matters to contractors because it determines which vessel-preference requirements will appear in their contract.

Applies to: Solicitations and contracts that may involve ocean transportation of supplies subject to the Cargo Preference Act of 1954

What it requires

  • Insert the clause at 52.247-64 in solicitations and contracts that may involve ocean transportation of supplies subject to the Cargo Preference Act of 1954
  • Use the clause with Alternate I if an applicable statute requires, or agency procedures determine, that supplies must be transported exclusively in privately owned U.S.-flag commercial vessels
  • Except for ocean transportation services contracts or construction contracts, use the clause with Alternate II if any supplies to be transported are commercial products shipped in direct support of U.S. military contingency operations, exercises, or forces deployed with United Nations or NATO humani

Key terms: Cargo Preference Act of 1954 · 52.247-64 · Alternate I · Alternate II · privately owned U.S.-flag commercial vessels

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

The text

(a)(1) Insert the clause at 52.247-64, Preference for Privately Owned U.S.-Flag Commercial Vessels, in solicitations and contracts that may involve ocean transportation of supplies subject to the Cargo Preference Act of 1954. (For application of the Cargo Preference Act of 1954, see 47.502(a)(3), 47.503(a), and 47.504.)

(2) If an applicable statute requires, or if it has been determined under agency procedures, that the supplies to be furnished under the contracts must be transported exclusively in privately owned U.S.-flag commercial vessels (see 47.502(a)(1) and 47.503(b)), use the clause with its Alternate I.

(3) Except for contracts or agreements for ocean transportation services or construction contracts, use the clause with its Alternate II if any of the supplies to be transported are commercial products that are shipped in direct support of U.S. military—

(i) Contingency operations;

(ii) Exercises; or

(iii) Forces deployed in connection with United Nations or North Atlantic Treaty Organization humanitarian or peacekeeping operations.

(b) The contracting officer may insert in solicitations and contracts, under agency procedures, additional appropriate clauses concerning the vessels to be used.

Sections it refers to

Sections that refer to it

  • 52.247-64 Preference for Privately Owned U.S.-Flag Commercial Vessels.

← 47.506 Procedures.

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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