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DFARS 252.208-7000 Intent to Furnish Precious Metals as Government-Furnished Material

Does the regulation require it to flow down?

Yes

(d): insert in subcontract solicitations and purchase orders issued in performance of the contract, 'unless the Contractor knows that the item being purchased contains no precious metals'

Form
entire clause, including paragraph (d) itself
Reaches
all tiers

Checked against acquisition.gov on 2026-08-11 · edition DEC 1991 · base v0.9.3 Read the text ↗

What it makes you produce

2 items for your checklist, slowest first.

  1. Something you fill in and send back2

    Hours, once you know which one is missing.

    • The table filled in at offer: each precious metal, the whole troy ounces needed, and the stock number and nomenclature of the item that needs it

      DFARS 252.208-7000(b)

    • Two prices for every deliverable item that contains precious metal — one with the Government furnishing the metal, one with you furnishing it

      DFARS 252.208-7000(c)

When it is used

Prescribed at 208.7305(a) for acquisitions of items containing precious metals (silver, gold, platinum, palladium, iridium, rhodium, ruthenium); silver becomes mandatory GFM from 100 troy oz. Flows down via (d) to subcontract solicitations and purchase orders, unless the item being purchased contains no precious metal.

Read closely

(a) is why both prices are asked for: the Government furnishes the metal where the contracting officer finds it in the Government's interest, and Government-furnished silver is mandatory at 100 troy ounces or more, arriving under the Government property clause. Quoting one price where the clause asks for two is a defect in the offer, and quoting only the buy-it-yourself price gives away metal the Government would have supplied.

The 11 templates that name it, with the line
233RTX Flowdown of U.S. Government Contract Clauses Under U.S. Government ContractsRTXline 1412166Northrop Grumman CTM-P-ST-001 — U.S. Government Firm Fixed Price Order (Not for Commercial Products and Services)Northrop Grummanline 2416166Northrop Grumman CTM-P-ST-003 — U.S. Government T&M Order (Not for Commercial Products and Services)Northrop Grummanline 2348168Northrop Grumman CTM-P-ST-004 — U.S. Government Cost Reimbursement Order (Not for Commercial Products and Services)Northrop Grummanline 2446255GD Mission Systems SCM-TMP-005 — General Provisions, Firm Fixed Price PO under U.S. Government Contract (Non-Commercial)General Dynamicsline 1262243GD Mission Systems SCM-TMP-048 — T&M Purchase Orders for Non-Commercial Items in Support of a U.S. Government ContractGeneral Dynamicsline 2171122GD Mission Systems SCM-TMP-095 — FFP Purchase Orders for Commercial/COTS Products or Services in Support of a U.S. Government ContractGeneral Dynamicsline 1121240L3Harris LGL-50.F1 — General T&C and Flowdown Clauses for Other Than Commercial Products/Services under a U.S. Government ContractL3Harrisline 2213273BAE Systems Inc. USGOVA — FAR/DFARS Flow Down Provisions for Subcontracts/Purchase Orders under a U.S. Government (DoD) Prime ContractBAE Systemsline 1137107Honeywell — Supplemental Provisions Under Fixed Price U.S. Government Contracts for Commercial ItemsHoneywellline 574178AAR Component Services NY — U.S. Government Contract FAR and DFARS Clauses Incorporated by ReferenceAAR Corpline 327

Source: acquisition.gov, DFARS 252.208-7000. CODIFIED REGIME, read 2026-08-11 on the part-252 page at DFARS Change 5/7/2026: "As prescribed in 208.7305(a), use the following clause:" with designation (DEC 1991). DEVIATION REGIME, read 2026-08-11 in acquisition.gov/sites/default/files/page_file_uploads/DoD_RFO_Deviation_Part-8.pdf (615122 bytes, 34 pages, DARS Tracking Number 2026-O0049, "Effective March 16, 2026, contracting officers shall use"): 208.7301(a) reads "Insert the clause at 252.208-7000, Intent to Furnish Precious Metals as Government-Furnished Material, in all solicitations and contracts except—", and the clause head reads "As prescribed in 208.7301(a), use the following clause:" with the same designation (DEC 1991). SAME NUMBER AND SAME DESIGNATION, MOVED PRESCRIPTION: 208.7305(a) codified, 208.7301(a) under the deviation. This is also the only one of these memos that is not effective 2026-02-01. TO RE-DERIVE WITHOUT REDOING THE RESEARCH: fetch that PDF, run pdftotext -layout over it, and grep for 252.208-7000 — 2 occurrences on 2026-08-11, poppler pdftotext. (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.