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

FAR 52.247-9 Agreed Weight—General Freight.

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 applies to transportation or transportation-related services contracts when the shipping activity determines the weight of freight shipments, excluding household goods and office furniture. It requires the shipping activity to determine each shipment's weight, show it on the covering shipping document, and the contractor must accept that weight as the agreed weight.

Applies to: Contractors providing transportation or transportation-related services for freight other than household goods or office furniture

What it requires

  • Accept the weight shown on the covering shipping document as the agreed weight

Key terms: shipping activity · covering shipping document · agreed weight · freight

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The text

As prescribed in 47.207-4(a)(1), insert the following clause in solicitations and contracts for transportation or for transportation-related services when the shipping activity determines the weight of shipments of freight other than household goods or office furniture:

Agreed Weight—General Freight (APR 1984)

The shipping activity shall determine the weight of each shipment. The weight shall be shown on the covering shipping document and shall be accepted by the Contractor as the agreed weight.

(End of clause)

Sections it refers to

Sections that refer to it

← 52.247-8 Estimated Weights or Quantities Not Guaranteed. · 52.247-10 Net Weight—General Freight. →

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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