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

FAR 52.247-56 Transit Arrangements.

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 provision tells offerors that when transit arrangements may benefit the Government, offers will be evaluated using the lowest appropriate common carrier transportation costs. Those costs include the offeror's through transit rates and charges when applicable, measured from the offeror's shipping points through the transit point to the ultimate destination. It matters because the transportation cost used in evaluation may differ from what the offeror might otherwise assume.

Applies to: Solicitations where benefits may accrue to the Government because transit arrangements may apply

Key terms: transit arrangements · common carrier transportation costs · through transit rates and charges · shipping points · transit point

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

The text

As prescribed in 47.305-13(a)(3)(ii), insert the following provision in solicitations when benefits may accrue to the Government because transit arrangements may apply:

Transit Arrangements (APR 1984)

The lowest appropriate common carrier transportation costs, including offeror's through transit rates and charges when applicable, from offeror's shipping points, via the transit point, to the ultimate destination will be used in evaluating offers.

(End of provision)

Sections it refers to

Sections that refer to it

← 52.247-55 F.o.b. Point for Delivery of Government-Furnished Property. · 52.247-57 Transportation Transit Privilege Credits. →

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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