# 52.204-5 Women-Owned Business (Other Than Small Business).
Type: Provision
Prescribed in: 4.607(a)
Current version date: OCT 2014

## Prescription and Applicability

### FAR Prescription, 4.607(a)

(a) Insert the provision at 52.204-5, Women-Owned Business (Other Than Small Business), in all solicitations that-

(1) Are not set aside for small business concerns;

(2) Exceed the simplified acquisition threshold; and

(3) Are for contracts that will be performed in the United States or its outlying areas.

## Current Text

52.204-5 Women-Owned Business (Other Than Small Business).

As prescribed in 4.607(a), insert the following provision:

Women-Owned Business (Other Than Small Business) (OCT 2014)

(a) Definition. Women-owned business concern, as used in this provision, means a concern that is at least 51 percent owned by one or more women; or in the case of any publicly owned business, at least 51 percent of its stock is owned by one or more women; and whose management and daily business operations are controlled by one or more women.

(b) Representation. [Complete only if the offeror is a women-owned business concern and has not represented itself as a small business concern in paragraph (c)(1) of FAR 52.219-1, Small Business Program Representations, of this solicitation.] The offeror represents that it □ is a women-owned business concern.

(End of provision)

[64 FR 10533, Mar. 4, 1999; 64 FR 30103, June 4, 1999, as amended at 73 FR 21778, Apr. 22, 2008; 77 FR 69718, Nov. 20, 2012; 79 FR 61751, Oct. 14, 2014]

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Reference: https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-48/section-52.204-5