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

FAR 52.239-1 Privacy or Security Safeguards.

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 restricts the contractor from publishing or disclosing details of security safeguards designed, developed, or provided under the contract without the Contracting Officer's written consent. It also requires the contractor to give the Government access to its facilities, operations, records, and databases for inspection to protect Government data, and to promptly report any new threats or failed safeguards. It matters because it imposes confidentiality and cooperation duties on contractors handling Government data.

Applies to: Contractors under contracts that include this clause

What it requires

  • Do not publish or disclose safeguard details without the Contracting Officer's written consent
  • Provide the Government access to facilities, installations, technical capabilities, operations, documentation, records, and databases for inspection
  • Immediately notify the other party if new or unanticipated threats or hazards are discovered or if existing safeguards have ceased to function

Key terms: safeguards · Contracting Officer's written consent · Government data · threats or hazards · inspection

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

The text

As prescribed in 39.106, insert a clause substantially the same as the following:

Privacy or Security Safeguards (AUG 1996)

(a) The Contractor shall not publish or disclose in any manner, without the Contracting Officer's written consent, the details of any safeguards either designed or developed by the Contractor under this contract or otherwise provided by the Government.

(b) To the extent required to carry out a program of inspection to safeguard against threats and hazards to the security, integrity, and confidentiality of Government data, the Contractor shall afford the Government access to the Contractor's facilities, installations, technical capabilities, operations, documentation, records, and databases.

(c) If new or unanticipated threats or hazards are discovered by either the Government or the Contractor, or if existing safeguards have ceased to function, the discoverer shall immediately bring the situation to the attention of the other party.

(End of clause)

Sections it refers to

Sections that refer to it

  • 39.106 Contract clause.
  • 52.212-5 Contract Terms and Conditions Required To Implement Statutes or Executive Orders—Commercial Products and Commercial Services.

← 52.238 [Reserved] · 52.240 [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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