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

FAR 52.227-23 Rights to Proposal Data (Technical).

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 the Government unlimited rights to the technical data in your proposal, except for any pages you list in the blanks. It matters because, unless you identify those pages, the Government can use and disclose your proposal's technical data without restriction.

Applies to: Contractors whose contract is based on a proposal containing technical data

What it requires

  • Identify any pages of the proposal that are excluded from the Government's unlimited rights by filling in the first blank
  • Fill in the date of the proposal in the second blank

Key terms: unlimited rights · technical data · Rights in Data—General clause · proposal

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

The text

As prescribed in 27.409(l), insert the following clause:

Rights to Proposal Data (Technical) (JUN 1987)

Except for data contained on pages ___, it is agreed that as a condition of award of this contract, and notwithstanding the conditions of any notice appearing thereon, the Government shall have unlimited rights (as defined in the Rights in Data—General clause contained in this contract) in and to the technical data contained in the proposal dated ___, upon which this contract is based.

(End of clause)

Sections it refers to

  • 27.409 Solicitation provisions and contract clauses

Sections that refer to it

  • 27.407 Rights to technical data in successful proposals.
  • 27.409 Solicitation provisions and contract clauses

← 52.227-22 Major System—Minimum Rights. · 52.228-1 Bid Guarantee. →

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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