41 CFR § 105-68.905 - Affiliate.

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identifier: "/us/cfr/t41/s105-68.905"
source: "ecfr"
legal_status: "authoritative_unofficial"
title: "41 CFR § 105-68.905 - Affiliate."
title_number: 41
title_name: "Public Contracts and Property Management"
section_number: "105-68.905"
section_name: "Affiliate."
chapter_number: 105
chapter_name: "GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION"
part_number: "105-68"
part_name: "68—GOVERNMENTWIDE DEBARMENT AND SUSPENSION (NONPROCUREMENT)"
positive_law: false
currency: "2026-03-24"
last_updated: "2026-03-24"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
authority: "Sec. 2455, Pub. L. 103-355, 108 Stat. 3327; E.O. 12549, 3 CFR, 1986 Comp., p. 189; E.O. 12689, 3 CFR, 1989 Comp., p. 235."
regulatory_source: "68 FR 66626, 66627, Nov. 26, 2003, unless otherwise noted."
cfr_part: "105-68"
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# 105-68.905 Affiliate.

Persons are *affiliates* of each other if, directly or indirectly, either one controls or has the power to control the other or a third person controls or has the power to control both. The ways we use to determine control include, but are not limited to—

(a) Interlocking management or ownership;

(b) Identity of interests among family members;

(c) Shared facilities and equipment;

(d) Common use of employees; or

(e) A business entity which has been organized following the exclusion of a person which has the same or similar management, ownership, or principal employees as the excluded person.