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

FAR 52.247-23 Contractor Liability for Loss of and/or Damage to Household Goods.

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 makes the contractor responsible for loss or damage to household goods during packing, moving, storage, or servicing, unless the loss or damage was beyond the contractor's control and not due to its fault or negligence. The contractor must also pay the owner a set amount per pound per article for any loss or damage, and the owner must give written notice within 75 days after delivery.

Applies to: Contractors moving or storing household goods under this contract

What it requires

  • Be liable for loss or damage to articles during packing, moving, storage, or servicing, unless caused beyond your control and without your fault or negligence.
  • Pay the owner at the rate of ___ cents per pound per article for loss or damage.
  • Be liable for loss or damage if the owner sends written notice within 75 days after delivery.

Key terms: loss and/or damage · household goods · beyond the control and without the fault or negligence · stored in transit · indemnify

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

The text

As prescribed in 47.207-7(e), insert the following clause:

Contractor Liability for Loss of and/or Damage to Household Goods (JAN 1991)

(a) Except when loss and/or damage arise out of causes beyond the control and without the fault or negligence of the Contractor, the Contractor shall be liable to the owner for the loss of and/or damage to any article while being—

(1) Packed, picked up, loaded, transported, delivered, unloaded, or unpacked;

(2) Stored in transit; or

(3) Serviced (appliances, etc.) by a third person hired by the Contractor to perform the servicing.

(b) The Contractor shall be liable for loss and/or damage discovered by the owner if written notice of such loss and/or damage is dispatched to the Contractor not later than 75 days following the date of delivery.

(c) The Contractor shall indemnify the owner of the goods at a rate of ___ cents per pound per article.

(End of clause)

Sections it refers to

Sections that refer to it

← 52.247-22 Contractor Liability for Loss of and/or Damage to Freight Other Than Household Goods. · 52.247-24 Advance Notification by the Government. →

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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