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DFARS 252.225-7002 Qualifying Country Sources as Subcontractors

Does the regulation require it to flow down?

No

The clause has only (a) and (b); there is no paragraph requiring its insertion in subcontracts. Primes include it to extend the non-exclusion rule to lower tiers and document 225.872 compliance across the whole chain.

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 MAR 2022 · base v0.9.3 Read the text ↗

What it makes you produce

One item for your checklist.

  1. Nothing to send, ever

    There is no paperwork here. It is a rule you follow while you perform the work.

    • A rule that runs while you place lower-tier work: an allied-country source is not shut out of a competition under the order, subject to the item-level restrictions the regulation names

      DFARS 252.225-7002(b)

When it is used

Accompanies DoD's Buy American/Balance of Payments regime (used together with 252.225-7001 in supplies contracts). Single obligation, in (b): subject to the DFARS 225.872 restrictions, the contractor may not exclude qualifying country sources or US sources from competing for subcontracts. Paragraph (a) carries the current list of 28 qualifying countries (Australia, Germany, United Kingdom, Japan, Israel, Canada, Turkey, etc. — countries with defense MOUs with the US). The clause ends at (b): there is no flow-down paragraph.

Read closely

the clause has only (a), the list of qualifying countries, and (b), the rule. It names no record, so a purchasing file showing who was invited, who quoted and why the winner won is evidence rather than a deliverable.

The 8 templates that name it, with the line
233RTX Flowdown of U.S. Government Contract Clauses Under U.S. Government ContractsRTXline 1423255GD Mission Systems SCM-TMP-005 — General Provisions, Firm Fixed Price PO under U.S. Government Contract (Non-Commercial)General Dynamicsline 1276243GD Mission Systems SCM-TMP-048 — T&M Purchase Orders for Non-Commercial Items in Support of a U.S. Government ContractGeneral Dynamicsline 2185240L3Harris LGL-50.F1 — General T&C and Flowdown Clauses for Other Than Commercial Products/Services under a U.S. Government ContractL3Harrisline 2475106L3Harris LGL-50.F2 — General T&C and Flowdown Clauses for Commercial Products/Services under a U.S. Government ContractL3Harrisline 1741107Honeywell — Supplemental Provisions Under Fixed Price U.S. Government Contracts for Commercial ItemsHoneywellline 69089AAR Government Services — C40 Purchase Order General Provisions, Non-Commercial Firm Fixed Price Items or ServicesAAR Corpline 3152178AAR Component Services NY — U.S. Government Contract FAR and DFARS Clauses Incorporated by ReferenceAAR Corpline 984

Source: acquisition.gov, DFARS 252.225-7002. CODIFIED REGIME, read 2026-08-11 on the part-252 page at DFARS Change 5/7/2026: "As prescribed in 225.1101(3), use the following clause:" with designation (MAR 2022). DEVIATION REGIME, read 2026-08-11 in acquisition.gov/sites/default/files/page_file_uploads/DoD_RFO_Deviation_Part-25.pdf (2008971 bytes, 272 pages, DARS Tracking Number 2026-O0041, "Effective February 17, 2026, contracting officers shall use"): 225.601(3) reads "Insert the clause at 252.225-7002, Qualifying Country Sources as Subcontractors, in solicitations and contracts that include the basic or one of the alternates of the following clauses:", and the clause head reads "As prescribed in 225.601(3), use the following clause:" with the same designation (MAR 2022). SAME NUMBER AND SAME DESIGNATION, MOVED PRESCRIPTION: 225.1101(3) codified, 225.601(3) under the deviation. Effective 2026-02-17, which is the one date in this family that is not 2026-02-01. TO RE-DERIVE WITHOUT REDOING THE RESEARCH: fetch that PDF, run pdftotext -layout over it, and grep for 252.225-7002 — 3 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.