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DFARS 252.225-7009 Restriction on Acquisition of Certain Articles Containing Specialty Metals

Does the regulation require it to flow down?

Yes

Subs (including commercial) for items containing specialty metals; exceptions: electronics, COTS (with caveats), 2% de minimis content

Form
paragraphs (a)–(c) + (e)(2)
Reaches
all tiers

Checked against acquisition.gov on 2026-08-09 · edition JAN 2023 · base v0.9.3 Read the text ↗

What it makes you produce

One item for your checklist.

  1. Something somebody else has to issue you

    The same day if the issuer is one of your own suppliers, months if it is an assessor or an underwriter.

    • Mill certificates giving the country of melt for every specialty metal incorporated in the item, gathered back through the bill of material — evidence the prime weighs, not paper the clause names

      DFARS 252.225-7009

When it is used

225.7003-5(a)(1) prescribes the clause for acquisitions that (i) exceed the SAT ($350k) AND (ii) require delivery of aircraft, missile or space systems, ships, tank or automotive items, weapon systems or ammunition — or components of those items — IF the items or components contain specialty metal. Definition: alloy steels, nickel/iron-nickel/cobalt base alloys, titanium, zirconium — pure tungsten and molybdenum are NOT specialty metals. (Trigger corrected 2026-08-05, backlog item 12: the entry read the two legs as a disjunction, and the prescription verbatim is 'Require delivery of any of the following items ... IF such items or components contain specialty metal' — a conjunction. The category leg was also encoded as `workType == metal-manufacturing`, which made the engine rule the clause OUT for any other workType; the six categories are a fact about the deliverable and the profile has no field that carries them, so both legs are structural now. Verified against acquisition.gov, DFARS 225.7003-5.)

Read closely

(b) is the restriction and (c) carries six exceptions — electronic components, certain off-the-shelf items, commercial fasteners, qualifying-country items, a nonavailability determination, and noncompliant metal at or under 2 percent of the end item by weight. (d) is the alternative route for a commercial derivative military article, and (e)(1) directs the prime to reserve (d) and (e)(1) itself when flowing the clause down — so an order reading 'applies in its entirety, less paragraph (d)' has done what (e)(1) says, and the alternative route stays at the prime's level.

The 19 templates that name it, with the line
76CORPDOC 2A — FAR/DFARS Flowdown Provisions for Commercial Products/Services under a DoD Prime ContractLockheed Martinline 285143CORPDOC 3A — FAR/DFARS Flowdown Provisions for Fixed Price Non-Commercial Items under a DoD Prime ContractLockheed Martinline 388155CORPDOC 4A — FAR/DFARS Flowdown Provisions for Cost-Reimbursement/T&M Subcontracts under a DoD Prime ContractLockheed Martinline 424233RTX Flowdown of U.S. Government Contract Clauses Under U.S. Government ContractsRTXline 71651Raytheon TC-001 — General Terms and Conditions of PurchaseRTXline 54760Raytheon TC-003 — Supplement 2: Government Contract Provisions from the DFARSRTXline 98166Northrop Grumman CTM-P-ST-001 — U.S. Government Firm Fixed Price Order (Not for Commercial Products and Services)Northrop Grummanline 245569Northrop Grumman CTM-P-ST-002 — U.S. Government FFP or T&M Order for Commercial Products and ServicesNorthrop Grummanline 2416166Northrop Grumman CTM-P-ST-003 — U.S. Government T&M Order (Not for Commercial Products and Services)Northrop Grummanline 2393168Northrop Grumman CTM-P-ST-004 — U.S. Government Cost Reimbursement Order (Not for Commercial Products and Services)Northrop Grummanline 2491255GD Mission Systems SCM-TMP-005 — General Provisions, Firm Fixed Price PO under U.S. Government Contract (Non-Commercial)General Dynamicsline 1280243GD Mission Systems SCM-TMP-048 — T&M Purchase Orders for Non-Commercial Items in Support of a U.S. Government ContractGeneral Dynamicsline 2253122GD Mission Systems SCM-TMP-095 — FFP Purchase Orders for Commercial/COTS Products or Services in Support of a U.S. Government ContractGeneral Dynamicsline 1126240L3Harris LGL-50.F1 — General T&C and Flowdown Clauses for Other Than Commercial Products/Services under a U.S. Government ContractL3Harrisline 2321106L3Harris LGL-50.F2 — General T&C and Flowdown Clauses for Commercial Products/Services under a U.S. Government ContractL3Harrisline 1794273BAE Systems Inc. USGOVA — FAR/DFARS Flow Down Provisions for Subcontracts/Purchase Orders under a U.S. Government (DoD) Prime ContractBAE Systemsline 1152107Honeywell — Supplemental Provisions Under Fixed Price U.S. Government Contracts for Commercial ItemsHoneywellline 70789AAR Government Services — C40 Purchase Order General Provisions, Non-Commercial Firm Fixed Price Items or ServicesAAR Corpline 3164178AAR Component Services NY — U.S. Government Contract FAR and DFARS Clauses Incorporated by ReferenceAAR Corpline 997

Source: acquisition.gov, DFARS 252.225-7009, codified text read at DFARS Change 5/7/2026, prescribed at 225.7003-5(a)(2) with designation (JAN 2023); RFO class deviation 2026-O0041 (DFARS part 225, effective 2026-02-17) prints the same prescription and the same designation, so the two regimes agree (verified 2026-08-09)

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.