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DFARS 252.219-7003 Small Business Subcontracting Plan (DoD Contracts)

Does the regulation require it to flow down?

No

(g): include DFARS 252.219-7004 in subcontracts with subcontractors participating in the Test Program (DFARS 219.702-70), if the subcontract exceeds the FAR 19.702(a) threshold and has subcontracting opportunities. 252.219-7003 itself has no self-flow-down mandate: primes include it by practice alongside FAR 52.219-9 when the other-than-small sub needs a plan.

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 2026-08-04 · edition DEC 2019 (Basic; Alternates I and II also DEC 2019) · base v0.9.3 Read the text ↗

What it makes you produce

2 items for your checklist, slowest first.

  1. Something you write

    Days to weeks, and nobody outside your company has to agree to it.

    • A written notice to the administrative contracting officer naming the firm that took the place of a small business named in the plan

      Owed when a small business concern named in the subcontracting plan is replaced by a firm that is other than small

      DFARS 252.219-7003(e)

  2. Something you fill in and send back

    Hours, once you know which one is missing.

    • The Individual Subcontract Report and the Summary Subcontract Report, filed through the electronic subcontracting reporting system

      DFARS 252.219-7003(f)

When it is used

Supplements FAR 52.219-9: goes into every DoD contract (including commercial, Part 12) that contains 52.219-9 — that is, other-than-small contractor, contract above $900k ($2M construction) and subcontracting opportunities. Reaches the other-than-small sub the same way 52.219-9 does: when the prime requires a plan from them; (g) additionally requires including 252.219-7004 in subcontracts with Test Program participants.

Read closely

Both rows belong to whoever owes the subcontracting plan, and FAR 52.219-9(a) states that clause does not reach small business concerns. A current SAM registration and current representations are what sustain the count someone else reports. Paragraph (g) sends a different clause, DFARS 252.219-7004, into subcontracts with Test Program participants.

Alternates

  • Alt I · DEC 2019

    DFARS 219.708(b)(1)(A)(2) — use when using Alternate III of FAR 52.219-9.

    Alternate I replaces paragraph (f): individual reporting comes off the electronic system and onto Standard Form 294, so the paper you file changes rather than the date it is due.

The 14 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 367155CORPDOC 4A — FAR/DFARS Flowdown Provisions for Cost-Reimbursement/T&M Subcontracts under a DoD Prime ContractLockheed Martinline 403233RTX Flowdown of U.S. Government Contract Clauses Under U.S. Government ContractsRTXline 161160Raytheon TC-003 — Supplement 2: Government Contract Provisions from the DFARSRTXline 203166Northrop Grumman CTM-P-ST-001 — U.S. Government Firm Fixed Price Order (Not for Commercial Products and Services)Northrop Grummanline 2425166Northrop Grumman CTM-P-ST-003 — U.S. Government T&M Order (Not for Commercial Products and Services)Northrop Grummanline 2364168Northrop Grumman CTM-P-ST-004 — U.S. Government Cost Reimbursement Order (Not for Commercial Products and Services)Northrop Grummanline 2455255GD Mission Systems SCM-TMP-005 — General Provisions, Firm Fixed Price PO under U.S. Government Contract (Non-Commercial)General Dynamicsline 1267243GD Mission Systems SCM-TMP-048 — T&M Purchase Orders for Non-Commercial Items in Support of a U.S. Government ContractGeneral Dynamicsline 2176240L3Harris LGL-50.F1 — General T&C and Flowdown Clauses for Other Than Commercial Products/Services under a U.S. Government ContractL3Harrisline 2323106L3Harris LGL-50.F2 — General T&C and Flowdown Clauses for Commercial Products/Services under a U.S. Government ContractL3Harrisline 1678273BAE Systems Inc. USGOVA — FAR/DFARS Flow Down Provisions for Subcontracts/Purchase Orders under a U.S. Government (DoD) Prime ContractBAE Systemsline 114189AAR Government Services — C40 Purchase Order General Provisions, Non-Commercial Firm Fixed Price Items or ServicesAAR Corpline 3122178AAR Component Services NY — U.S. Government Contract FAR and DFARS Clauses Incorporated by ReferenceAAR Corpline 588

Source: acquisition.gov, DFARS 252.219-7003 + prescription 219.708(b) (verified 2026-08-04)

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.