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

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

Type: Provision

Prescribed in: 4.607(a)

Current version date: OCT 2014

Revolutionary FAR Overhaul (RFO) Version

A revised version of this clause has been published under the Revolutionary FAR Overhaul (EO 14275). The RFO version supersedes the eCFR text below for contracts using the RFO FAR model. The RFO text is not duplicated here; see the clause page for a side-by-side comparison: https://part52.dev/clause/52-204-5/#rfo

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