1AZ2131 Exhibit K FAR 52.204-27.pdf
FAR Clause PDF 76 KB Posted
- Solicitation number
- 1AZ2131
About this file
This document contains a federal contract clause prohibiting the use of the social media application TikTok on government information technology. The clause bars the presence or use of TikTok, as well as any successor application developed by ByteDance Limited, on any executive agency IT, including equipment used by federal contractors under contract with an agency. Contractors are prohibited from having or using TikTok on any government-owned or -managed IT, or any IT used or provided by the contractor in contract performance. However, the contracting officer may grant an exception by providing written notification to the contractor. The contractor must flow this clause down to any subcontractors, including those acquiring commercial products or services.
The related federal contract opportunity is a solicitation from the General Services Administration Public Buildings Service Region 9 for approximately 16,843 rentable square feet of office and special use space in Casa Grande, Arizona.
View the file
Other versions and copies of FAR 52.204-27
Show all 20
Who attaches FAR 52.204-27
Other files
Show all 12
On GovTribe
Work with this file
- Download the original file
- Contacts named in this file
- Similar government files
- Ask GovTribe AI about this file
Text version
1 LESSOR: GOVERNMENT:
FAR 52.204-27 PROHIBITION ON A BYTEDANCE COVERED APPLICATION (JUN 2023)
(a) Definitions. As used in this clause—
Covered application means the social networking service TikTok or any successor application or service developed or provided by ByteDance Limited or an entity owned by ByteDance Limited.
Information technology, as defined in 40 U.S.C. 11101(6)—
(1) Means any equipment or interconnected system or subsystem of equipment, used in the automatic acquisition, storage, analysis, evaluation, manipulation, management, movement, control, display, switching, interchange, transmission, or reception of data or information by the executive agency, if the equipment is used by the executive agency directly or is used by a contractor under a contract with the executive agency that requires the use—
(i) Of that equipment; or
(ii) Of that equipment to a significant extent in the performance of a service or the furnishing of a product;
(2) Includes computers, ancillary equipment (including imaging peripherals, input, output, and storage devices necessary for security and surveillance), peripheral equipment designed to be controlled by the central processing unit of a computer, software, firmware and similar procedures, services (including support services), and related resources; but
(3) Does not include any equipment acquired by a Federal contractor incidental to a
Federal contract.
(b) Prohibition. Section 102 of Division R of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023 (Pub. L. 117-328), the No TikTok on Government Devices Act, and its implementing guidance under Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Memorandum
M-23-13, dated February 27, 2023, “No TikTok on Government Devices” Implementation Guidance, collectively prohibit the presence or use of a covered application on executive agency information technology, including certain equipment used by Federal contractors. The Contractor is prohibited from having or using a covered application on any information technology owned or managed by the Government, or on any information technology used or provided by the Contractor under this contract, including equipment provided by the Contractor’s employees; however, this prohibition does not apply if the Contracting Officer provides written notification to the Contractor that an exception has been granted in accordance with OMB Memorandum M-23-13.
(c) Subcontracts. The Contractor shall insert the substance of this clause, including this paragraph (c), in all subcontracts, including subcontracts for the acquisition of commercial products or commercial services.
(End of clause)
File details come from the government source that posted it. Updated .