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

FAR 52.247-17 Charges.

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 caps what a contractor may charge for transportation or transportation-related services under the contract. Charges cannot exceed either the contractor's lowest rate available to the general public or rates the contractor has otherwise offered the Government for the same type of service. It matters because it limits the contractor's billing to the lower of those benchmarks.

Applies to: Contractors providing transportation or transportation-related services under solicitations and contracts that include this clause

What it requires

  • Ensure charges under the contract do not exceed charges based on the Contractor's lowest rate available to the general public
  • Ensure charges under the contract do not exceed charges based on rates otherwise tendered to the Government by the Contractor for the same type of service

Key terms: Charges · lowest rate available to the general public · rates otherwise tendered to the Government · same type of service · transportation or transportation-related services

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

The text

As prescribed in 47.207-6(a)(2), insert the following clause in solicitations and contracts for transportation or for transportation-related services:

Charges (APR 1984)

In no event shall charges under this contract be in excess of charges based on the Contractor's lowest rate available to the general public, or be in excess of charges based on rates otherwise tendered to the Government by the Contractor for the same type of service.

(End of clause)

Sections it refers to

Sections that refer to it

← 52.247-16 Contractor Responsibility for Returning Undelivered Freight. · 52.247-18 Multiple Shipments. →

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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