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DFARS 252.204-7003 Control of Government Personnel Work Product
Does the regulation require it to flow down?
No
The clause is a single sentence and does not mention subcontracts; DFARS 204.404-70(b) speaks only to solicitations and contracts. Primes flow it down because their purchasing systems mirror the DFARS 204.4 block wholesale — in all seven corpus documents 252.204-7000 and 252.204-7003 appear together — and because a prime whose lower tier imposed relinquishment rules on Government staff would be in breach of its own clause. Nothing about the flow-down is regulatory.
A clause can reach your subcontract without a mandate. Once it is in your document, it is a contract term all the same. The missing mandate is a fact about the regulation. It is not a ruling on your order.
Checked against acquisition.gov on 2026-08-05 · edition APR 1992 · base v0.9.3 Read the text ↗
What it makes you produce
One item for your checklist.
Nothing to send, ever
There is no paperwork here. It is a rule you follow while you perform the work.
Nothing to hand over. No agreement or procedure of yours may require a Department of Defense employee or a member of the Armed Forces to give up control of their own work product
DFARS 252.204-7003
When it is used
DFARS 204.404-70(b): 'Use the clause at 252.204-7003, Control of Government Personnel Work Product, in all solicitations and contracts.' No dollar threshold, no contract-type restriction, and no commercial carve-out is written into the prescription. The clause is one sentence long and only has something to operate on when DoD civilian employees or members of the Armed Forces are actually producing work product inside or alongside the contractor's operation. It sits in DFARS subpart 204.4, Safeguarding Classified Information Within Industry, and travels through prime templates paired with 252.204-7000, Disclosure of Information.
Read closely
One sentence, no paragraphs, so the citation stays at the clause. Where it bites is a document that already exists — a standard visitor nondisclosure agreement or a blanket proprietary-marking procedure that sweeps in notes, minutes and reports written by Government staff.
The 3 templates that name it, with the line
Source: acquisition.gov, DFARS 252.204-7003, DFARS 204.404-70(b) and DFARS 212.301 (verified 2026-08-05)
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.