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DFARS 252.203-7004 Display of Hotline Posters

Does the regulation require it to flow down?

Yes

(d): all subcontracts that exceed the DFARS 203.1004(b)(2)(ii) threshold — $7.5M in the current text — as of the subcontract award date, except acquisition of commercial products or commercial services

Form
substance, including paragraph (d) itself
Reaches
all tiers

Checked against acquisition.gov on 2026-08-11 · edition JAN 2023 · base v0.9.3 Read the text ↗

What it makes you produce

2 items for your checklist, slowest first.

  1. Something somebody else has to issue you2

    The same day if the issuer is one of your own suppliers, months if it is an assessor or an underwriter.

    • The DoD fraud, waste and abuse hotline poster in effect at award — printed by the DoD Inspector General, displayed in the common work areas of the segments doing the work

      DFARS 252.203-7004(b)(1)(i)
    • The Homeland Security fraud hotline poster alongside it, printed by the DHS Inspector General

      Owed when the work is paid for in whole or in part with DHS disaster relief funds and performed in the United States

      DFARS 252.203-7004(b)(2)

When it is used

Prescribed at 203.1004(b)(2)(ii): used instead of FAR 52.203-14 when the contract is NOT commercial and the value exceeds $7.5 million (current text). Flows down via (d) to subs above that same threshold as of the sub's award date, except commercial ones.

Read closely

Neither poster is written here. (c)(1) gets the DoD one from the Defense Hotline or dodig.mil and (b)(2)(ii) gets the DHS one from oig.dhs.gov, so the issuer is an Inspector General and the wait is a download. (c)(3) adds an electronic copy on a company website where one already carries information to employees, (c)(2) asks for the poster in the other languages a significant part of the workforce speaks, and (b)(1)(ii) lets the contracting officer accept written instructions and briefings instead of a public display outside the United States where security concerns are shown.

The 11 templates that name it, with the line
143CORPDOC 3A — FAR/DFARS Flowdown Provisions for Fixed Price Non-Commercial Items under a DoD Prime ContractLockheed Martinline 339155CORPDOC 4A — FAR/DFARS Flowdown Provisions for Cost-Reimbursement/T&M Subcontracts under a DoD Prime ContractLockheed Martinline 375233RTX Flowdown of U.S. Government Contract Clauses Under U.S. Government ContractsRTXline 161460Raytheon TC-003 — Supplement 2: Government Contract Provisions from the DFARSRTXline 224166Northrop Grumman CTM-P-ST-001 — U.S. Government Firm Fixed Price Order (Not for Commercial Products and Services)Northrop Grummanline 2386166Northrop Grumman CTM-P-ST-003 — U.S. Government T&M Order (Not for Commercial Products and Services)Northrop Grummanline 2326168Northrop Grumman CTM-P-ST-004 — U.S. Government Cost Reimbursement Order (Not for Commercial Products and Services)Northrop Grummanline 2418255GD Mission Systems SCM-TMP-005 — General Provisions, Firm Fixed Price PO under U.S. Government Contract (Non-Commercial)General Dynamicsline 1223240L3Harris LGL-50.F1 — General T&C and Flowdown Clauses for Other Than Commercial Products/Services under a U.S. Government ContractL3Harrisline 2134273BAE Systems Inc. USGOVA — FAR/DFARS Flow Down Provisions for Subcontracts/Purchase Orders under a U.S. Government (DoD) Prime ContractBAE Systemsline 1259178AAR Component Services NY — U.S. Government Contract FAR and DFARS Clauses Incorporated by ReferenceAAR Corpline 261

Source: acquisition.gov, DFARS 252.203-7004. CODIFIED REGIME, read 2026-08-11 on the part-252 page at DFARS Change 5/7/2026: "As prescribed in 203.1004(b)(2)(ii), use the following clause:" with designation (JAN 2023). RFO CLASS DEVIATION 2026-O0031 (DFARS part 203, effective February 1, 2026) CARRIES THIS CLAUSE AT THE SAME NUMBER: the memo prescribes it at 203.1004(b)(2)(ii) and prints it (JAN 2023). So the two regimes AGREE here on number, prescription and designation, and an agreement read is recorded because the alternative is silence that a reader cannot tell from an unread deviation. TO RE-DERIVE THE DEVIATION HALF WITHOUT REDOING THE RESEARCH: fetch acquisition.gov/sites/default/files/page_file_uploads/DoD_RFO_Deviation_Part-3.pdf (568898 bytes, 18 pages, DARS Tracking Number 2026-O0031, "Effective February 1, 2026, contracting officers shall use"), run pdftotext -layout over it, and grep for 252.203-7004 — 2 occurrences on 2026-08-11, poppler pdftotext. Both regimes read against their primary sources on 2026-08-11, and the deviation half re-read a second time and the recipe above measured on 2026-08-11 (verified 2026-08-11)

This is research, not legal advice. It states what the regulation says about this clause and cites the paragraph behind it. It does not rule on your order, and it does not rule on whether a prime's markings are correct.