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

FAR 52.219-4 Notice of Price Evaluation Preference for HUBZone Small Business Concerns.

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 gives HUBZone small business concerns a price evaluation preference in federal contracting. Offers are evaluated by adding a 10 percent factor to the price of most offers, except those from HUBZone small business concerns that have not waived the preference and otherwise successful small business offers. This matters because it can make a HUBZone offer more competitive against non-HUBZone and large business offers.

Applies to: Offerors in solicitations that include this clause, particularly HUBZone small business concerns

What it requires

  • A HUBZone joint venture must ensure that at least 40 percent of the aggregate work performed by the joint venture is completed by the HUBZone small business parties to the joint venture.
  • Work performed by the HUBZone small business parties to the joint venture must be more than administrative functions.

Key terms: HUBZone small business concern · price evaluation preference · waiver of evaluation preference · HUBZone joint venture · aggregate work

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

The text

As prescribed in 19.1309(b), insert the following clause:

Notice of Price Evaluation Preference for HUBZone Small Business Concerns (OCT 2022)

(a) Evaluation preference. (1) Offers will be evaluated by adding a factor of 10 percent to the price of all offers, except—

(i) Offers from HUBZone small business concerns that have not waived the evaluation preference; and

(ii) Otherwise successful offers from small business concerns.

(2) The factor of 10 percent shall be applied on a line item basis or to any group of items on which award may be made. Other evaluation factors described in the solicitation shall be applied before application of the factor.

(3) When the two highest rated offerors are a HUBZone small business concern and a large business, and the evaluated offer of the HUBZone small business concern is equal to the evaluated offer of the large business after considering the price evaluation preference, award will be made to the HUBZone small business concern.

(b) Waiver of evaluation preference. A HUBZone small business concern may elect to waive the evaluation preference, in which case the factor will be added to its offer for evaluation purposes.

□ Offeror elects to waive the evaluation preference.

(c) Joint venture. A HUBZone joint venture agrees that, in the performance of the contract, at least 40 percent of the aggregate work performed by the joint venture shall be completed by the HUBZone small business parties to the joint venture. Work performed by the HUBZone small business parties to the joint venture must be more than administrative functions.

(End of clause)

Sections it refers to

Sections that refer to it

  • 9.104-3 Application of standards.
  • 19.1309 Contract clauses.
  • 52.212-5 Contract Terms and Conditions Required To Implement Statutes or Executive Orders—Commercial Products and Commercial Services.

← 52.219-3 Notice of HUBZone Set-Aside or Sole-Source Award. · 52.219-5 [Reserved] →

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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