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FAR 52.204-17 Ownership or Control of Offeror.

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 state whether it has an immediate owner and, if so, to identify that owner by CAGE code and indicate whether that owner is itself owned or controlled by another entity. If it is, the offeror must also provide the highest-level owner's CAGE code and legal name. It matters because it collects ownership and control information as part of a solicitation.

Applies to: Offerors responding to a solicitation that includes this provision

What it requires

  • Represent whether it has or does not have an immediate owner
  • If it has more than one immediate owner, respond for each participant in the joint venture
  • If it has an immediate owner, enter the immediate owner's CAGE code and indicate whether that owner is owned or controlled by another entity
  • If the immediate owner is owned or controlled by another entity, enter the highest-level owner's CAGE code and legal name

Key terms: Commercial and Government Entity (CAGE) code · Highest-level owner · Immediate owner · Offeror · NATO CAGE (NCAGE) code

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

The text

As prescribed in 4.1804(b), use the following provision:

Ownership or Control of Offeror (AUG 2020)

(a) Definitions. As used in this provision—

Commercial and Government Entity (CAGE) code means—

(1) An identifier assigned to entities located in the United States or its outlying areas by the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) Commercial and Government Entity (CAGE) Branch to identify a commercial or government entity by unique location; or

(2) An identifier assigned by a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) or by the NATO Support and Procurement Agency (NSPA) to entities located outside the United States and its outlying areas that the DLA Commercial and Government Entity (CAGE) Branch records and maintains in the CAGE master file. This type of code is known as a NATO CAGE (NCAGE) code.

Highest-level owner means the entity that owns or controls an immediate owner of the offeror, or that owns or controls one or more entities that control an immediate owner of the offeror. No entity owns or exercises control of the highest level owner.

Immediate owner means an entity, other than the offeror, that has direct control of the offeror. Indicators of control include, but are not limited to, one or more of the following: Ownership or interlocking management, identity of interests among family members, shared facilities and equipment, and the common use of employees.

(b) The Offeror represents that it [_] has or [_] does not have an immediate owner. If the Offeror has more than one immediate owner (such as a joint venture), then the Offeror shall respond to paragraph (c) and if applicable, paragraph (d) of this provision for each participant in the joint venture.

(c) If the Offeror indicates “has” in paragraph (b) of this provision, enter the following information:

Immediate owner CAGE code:

(Do not use a “doing business as” name)

Is the immediate owner owned or controlled by another entity?: [_] Yes or [_] No.

(d) If the Offeror indicates “yes” in paragraph (c) of this provision, indicating that the immediate owner is owned or controlled by another entity, then enter the following information:

Highest-level owner CAGE code:

Highest-level owner legal name:

(Do not use a “doing business as” name)

(End of provision)

Sections it refers to

  • 4.1804 Solicitation provisions and contract clause.

Sections that refer to it

  • 4.1202 Solicitation provision and contract clause.
  • 4.1804 Solicitation provisions and contract clause.
  • 9.104-6 Federal Awardee Performance and Integrity Information System.
  • 52.204-8 Annual Representations and Certifications.
  • 52.204-16 Commercial and Government Entity Code Reporting.

← 52.204-16 Commercial and Government Entity Code Reporting. · 52.204-18 Commercial and Government Entity Code Maintenance. →

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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