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FAR and DFARS › FAR Part 52: Solicitation Provisions and Contract Clauses › Subpart 52.2

FAR 52.203-11 Certification and Disclosure Regarding Payments to Influence Certain Federal Transactions.

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 provision requires an offeror to certify, by signing its offer, that no Federal appropriated funds have been or will be paid to influence certain Federal officials in connection with the award of this contract. If lobbying registrants have made a lobbying contact on the offeror's behalf regarding this contract, the offeror must also submit OMB Standard Form LLL with its offer. The certification and disclosure are a prerequisite for entering into the contract, and violations can lead to civil penalties.

Applies to: Offerors signing an offer for a solicitation that includes this provision

What it requires

  • By signing its offer, certify that no Federal appropriated funds have been paid or will be paid to influence certain Federal officials on its behalf in connection with the awarding of this contract
  • If any registrants under the Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995 have made a lobbying contact on the offeror's behalf with respect to this contract, complete and submit OMB Standard Form LLL with its offer to provide the name of the registrants

Key terms: Lobbying contact · influencing or attempting to influence · reasonable compensation · regularly employed · OMB Standard Form LLL

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

The text

As prescribed in 3.808(a), insert the following provision:

Certification and Disclosure Regarding Payments To Influence Certain Federal Transactions (SEP 2024)

(a) Definitions. As used in this provision—“Lobbying contact” has the meaning provided at 2 U.S.C. 1602(8). The terms “agency,” “influencing or attempting to influence,” “officer or employee of an agency,” “person,” “reasonable compensation,” and “regularly employed” are defined in the FAR clause of this solicitation entitled “Limitation on Payments to Influence Certain Federal Transactions” (52.203-12).

(b) Prohibition. The prohibition and exceptions contained in the FAR clause of this solicitation entitled “Limitation on Payments to Influence Certain Federal Transactions” (52.203-12) are hereby incorporated by reference in this provision.

(c) Certification. The offeror, by signing its offer, hereby certifies to the best of its knowledge and belief that no Federal appropriated funds have been paid or will be paid to any person for influencing or attempting to influence an officer or employee of any agency, a Member of Congress, an officer or employee of Congress, or an employee of a Member of Congress on its behalf in connection with the awarding of this contract.

(d) Disclosure. If any registrants under the Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995 have made a lobbying contact on behalf of the offeror with respect to this contract, the offeror shall complete and submit, with its offer, OMB Standard Form LLL, Disclosure of Lobbying Activities, to provide the name of the registrants. The offeror need not report regularly employed officers or employees of the offeror to whom payments of reasonable compensation were made.

(e) Penalties. Submission of this certification and disclosure is a prerequisite for making or entering into this contract imposed by 31 U.S.C. 1352. Any person who makes an expenditure prohibited under this provision or who fails to file or amend the disclosure required to be filed or amended by this provision, shall be subject to civil penalties as provided in 31 U.S.C. 1352. An imposition of a civil penalty does not prevent the Government from seeking any other remedy that may be applicable.

(End of provision)

Sections it refers to

  • 3.808 Solicitation provision and contract clause.
  • 52.203-12 Limitation on Payments to Influence Certain Federal Transactions.

Sections that refer to it

  • 3.802 Statutory prohibition and requirement.
  • 3.804 Policy.
  • 3.808 Solicitation provision and contract clause.
  • 4.1202 Solicitation provision and contract clause.
  • 52.203-12 Limitation on Payments to Influence Certain Federal Transactions.
  • 52.204-8 Annual Representations and Certifications.

← 52.203-10 Price or Fee Adjustment for Illegal or Improper Activity. · 52.203-12 Limitation on Payments to Influence Certain Federal Transactions. →

Rule changes for FAR Part 52

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

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