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

FAR 52.247-5 Familiarization With Conditions.

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 requires offerors on transportation or transportation-related services contracts to become familiar with all available information about difficulties, conditions, and safety precautions involved in the work. It also states that an offeror is not excused from responsibility for properly estimating difficulties and costs just because it failed to investigate conditions or learn about the services.

Applies to: Offerors on solicitations and contracts for transportation or transportation-related services

What it requires

  • Become familiar with all available information regarding difficulties that may be encountered and the conditions, including safety precautions, under which the work must be accomplished

Key terms: offeror · familiarization with conditions · safety precautions · 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 47.207-1(d), insert the following clause in solicitations and contracts for transportation or for transportation-related services to ensure that offerors become familiar with conditions under which and where the services will be performed:

Familiarization With Conditions (APR 1984)

The offeror shall become familiar with all available information regarding difficulties that may be encountered and the conditions, including safety precautions, under which the work must be accomplished under the contract. The offeror shall not be relieved from assuming all responsibility for properly estimating the difficulties and the cost of performing the services required in this contract because the offeror failed to investigate the conditions or to become acquainted with all information concerning the services to be performed.

(End of clause)

Sections it refers to

Sections that refer to it

← 52.247-4 Inspection of Shipping and Receiving Facilities. · 52.247-6 Financial Statement. →

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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