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

FAR 52.214-4 False Statements in Bids.

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 bidders to give full, accurate, and complete information as required by the invitation for bids and its attachments. It warns that making false statements in bids carries a penalty under 18 U.S.C. 1001.

Applies to: Bidders responding to invitations for bids

What it requires

  • Provide full, accurate, and complete information as required by the solicitation and its attachments

Key terms: invitations for bids · false statements · 18 U.S.C. 1001

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

The text

As prescribed in 14.201-6(b)(2), insert the following provision in all invitations for bids:

False Statements in Bids (APR 1984)

Bidders must provide full, accurate, and complete information as required by this solicitation and its attachments. The penalty for making false statements in bids is prescribed in 18 U.S.C. 1001.

(End of provision)

Sections it refers to

Sections that refer to it

← 52.214-3 Amendments to Invitations for Bids. · 52.214-5 Submission of Bids. →

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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