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

FAR 52.203-17 Contractor Employee Whistleblower Rights.

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 clause makes contractor employees working on the contract covered by federal whistleblower rights and remedies under 41 U.S.C. 4712 and FAR 3.900 through 3.905. It requires the contractor to notify employees in writing about those rights and to pass the same requirement down to subcontracts. It matters because it creates notice and flow-down obligations for contractors.

Applies to: Contractors and their employees working on this contract, and subcontracts under it

What it requires

  • Inform employees in writing, in the predominant language of the workforce, of employee whistleblower rights and protections under 41 U.S.C. 4712, as described in FAR 3.900 through 3.905.
  • Insert the substance of this clause, including paragraph (c), in all subcontracts.

Key terms: whistleblower rights and remedies · 41 U.S.C. 4712 · FAR 3.900 through 3.905 · predominant language of the workforce · subcontracts

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

The text

As prescribed in 3.906, insert the following clause:

Contractor Employee Whistleblower Rights (NOV 2023)

(a) This contract and employees working on this contract will be subject to the whistleblower rights and remedies established at 41 U.S.C. 4712 and Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 3.900 through 3.905.

(b) The Contractor shall inform its employees in writing, in the predominant language of the workforce, of employee whistleblower rights and protections under 41 U.S.C. 4712, as described in FAR 3.900 through 3.905.

(c) The Contractor shall insert the substance of this clause, including this paragraph (c), in all subcontracts.

(End of clause)

Sections it refers to

  • 3.906 Contract clause.
  • 3.900 Scope of subpart.
  • 3.905 Remedies and enforcement of orders.

Sections that refer to it

  • 3.906 Contract clause.
  • 52.212-5 Contract Terms and Conditions Required To Implement Statutes or Executive Orders—Commercial Products and Commercial Services.
  • 52.213-4 Terms and Conditions—Simplified Acquisitions (Other Than Commercial Products and Commercial Services).
  • 52.244-6 Subcontracts for Commercial Products and Commercial Services.

← 52.203-16 Preventing Personal Conflicts of Interest. · 52.203-18 Prohibition on Contracting with Entities that Require Certain Internal Confidentiality Agreements or Statements—Representation. →

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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