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DFARS 252.223-7003 Change in Place of Performance—Ammunition and Explosives

Does the regulation require it to flow down?

No

No flow-down paragraph in the text. Primes include it in energetics subcontracts because the government's safety review is done per address — (c) only binds the contractor, and the prime needs to bind the sub the same way to keep control of the approved site.

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 2026-08-11 · edition DEC 1991 · base v0.9.3 Read the text ↗

What it makes you produce

One item for your checklist.

  1. Something you fill in and send back

    Hours, once you know which one is missing.

    • The place of performance for all ammunition and explosives work, written into the Place of Performance provision at offer

      DFARS 252.223-7003(a)

When it is used

Accompanies Safety Precautions for Ammunition and Explosives (prescription 223.370-5): it goes into the same ammunition/explosives contracts. It locks the location: the offeror identifies where the energetics work will be done ((a)) and nobody changes that address — in the proposal ((b)) or during performance ((c)) — without the Contracting Officer's prior written approval. It has no flow-down requirement.

Read closely

Leaving it out can get the offer rejected under (a). After that the address is fixed: (b) blocks a change after offers are due and (c) blocks one during performance, in both cases without the contracting officer's advance written approval, which turns on there being time for a new safety review at the new site.

The 11 templates that name it, with the line
76CORPDOC 2A — FAR/DFARS Flowdown Provisions for Commercial Products/Services under a DoD Prime ContractLockheed Martinline 270143CORPDOC 3A — FAR/DFARS Flowdown Provisions for Fixed Price Non-Commercial Items under a DoD Prime ContractLockheed Martinline 377155CORPDOC 4A — FAR/DFARS Flowdown Provisions for Cost-Reimbursement/T&M Subcontracts under a DoD Prime ContractLockheed Martinline 413233RTX Flowdown of U.S. Government Contract Clauses Under U.S. Government ContractsRTXline 141760Raytheon TC-003 — Supplement 2: Government Contract Provisions from the DFARSRTXline 81166Northrop Grumman CTM-P-ST-001 — U.S. Government Firm Fixed Price Order (Not for Commercial Products and Services)Northrop Grummanline 2441166Northrop Grumman CTM-P-ST-003 — U.S. Government T&M Order (Not for Commercial Products and Services)Northrop Grummanline 2380168Northrop Grumman CTM-P-ST-004 — U.S. Government Cost Reimbursement Order (Not for Commercial Products and Services)Northrop Grummanline 2471240L3Harris LGL-50.F1 — General T&C and Flowdown Clauses for Other Than Commercial Products/Services under a U.S. Government ContractL3Harrisline 2416106L3Harris LGL-50.F2 — General T&C and Flowdown Clauses for Commercial Products/Services under a U.S. Government ContractL3Harrisline 1702273BAE Systems Inc. USGOVA — FAR/DFARS Flow Down Provisions for Subcontracts/Purchase Orders under a U.S. Government (DoD) Prime ContractBAE Systemsline 1145

Source: acquisition.gov, DFARS 252.223-7003. CODIFIED REGIME, read 2026-08-11 on the part-252 page at DFARS Change 5/7/2026: "As prescribed in 223.370-5, use the following clause:" with designation (DEC 1991). RFO CLASS DEVIATION 2026-O0018 (DFARS part 223, effective February 1, 2026) CARRIES THIS CLAUSE AT THE SAME NUMBER: the memo prescribes it at 223.370-5 and prints it (DEC 1991). 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-23.pdf (593744 bytes, 22 pages, DARS Tracking Number 2026-O0018, "Effective February 1, 2026, contracting officers shall use"), run pdftotext -layout over it, and grep for 252.223-7003 — 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.