SpendQueryBeta

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

FAR 52.204-5 Women-Owned Business (Other Than Small Business).

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 defines what counts as a women-owned business concern and lets an offeror represent that it is one. It matters because a contractor that is women-owned but not small must complete this representation only if it did not already claim small business status under FAR 52.219-1.

Applies to: Offerors that are women-owned business concerns but not small businesses

What it requires

  • Complete the representation only if the offeror is a women-owned business concern and has not represented itself as a small business concern in paragraph (c)(1) of FAR 52.219-1

Key terms: Women-owned business concern · Representation · Offeror · Small business concern

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

The text

As prescribed in 4.607(a), insert the following provision:

Women-Owned Business (Other Than Small Business) (OCT 2014)

(a) Definition. Women-owned business concern, as used in this provision, means a concern that is at least 51 percent owned by one or more women; or in the case of any publicly owned business, at least 51 percent of its stock is owned by one or more women; and whose management and daily business operations are controlled by one or more women.

(b) Representation. [Complete only if the offeror is a women-owned business concern and has not represented itself as a small business concern in paragraph (c)(1) of FAR 52.219-1, Small Business Program Representations, of this solicitation.] The offeror represents that it □ is a women-owned business concern.

(End of provision)

Sections it refers to

  • 4.607 Solicitation provisions and contract clause.
  • 52.219-1 Small Business Program Representations.

Sections that refer to it

  • 4.607 Solicitation provisions and contract clause.
  • 4.1202 Solicitation provision and contract clause.
  • 52.204-8 Annual Representations and Certifications.

← 52.204-4 [Reserved] · 52.204-6 Unique Entity Identifier. →

Rule changes for FAR Part 52

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

FAR 52.204-5 Women-Owned Business (Other Than Small Business) · SpendQuery