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DFARS 252.225-7015 Restriction on Acquisition of Hand or Measuring Tools

Does the regulation require it to flow down?

No

A single-sentence clause, no lettered paragraphs and no mention of subcontracts; the prime pastes it into the tool PO because that's the only way to guarantee the origin of what it delivers itself

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 JUN 2005 · 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.

    • A statement from the tool's maker or distributor that it was produced in the United States or its outlying areas — evidence the prime weighs, not paper the clause names

      DFARS 252.225-7015

When it is used

At the prime: solicitations and contracts — including FAR Part 12 — requiring delivery of hand or measuring tools, above the threshold referenced in 225.7002-2(a) (the Berry exception for smaller acquisitions), per 225.7002-3(b). Reaches the sub by template. (Trigger corrected 2026-08-05, backlog item 12: the tools leg was encoded as `workType == supplies`, which decided a question the base has no field for — whether tools are among the deliverables — and tripped for every supplies buy above the SAT. Structural now. Prescription re-verified against acquisition.gov, DFARS 225.7002-3.)

Read closely

the clause is a single sentence with no lettered paragraphs, so the citation is to the clause itself. It opens no qualifying-country route, so on a catalog built out of imported tools the origin question decides whether the line can be quoted at all.

The 9 templates that name it, with the line
233RTX Flowdown of U.S. Government Contract Clauses Under U.S. Government ContractsRTXline 1492166Northrop Grumman CTM-P-ST-001 — U.S. Government Firm Fixed Price Order (Not for Commercial Products and Services)Northrop Grummanline 2472166Northrop Grumman CTM-P-ST-003 — U.S. Government T&M Order (Not for Commercial Products and Services)Northrop Grummanline 2402168Northrop Grumman CTM-P-ST-004 — U.S. Government Cost Reimbursement Order (Not for Commercial Products and Services)Northrop Grummanline 2500255GD Mission Systems SCM-TMP-005 — General Provisions, Firm Fixed Price PO under U.S. Government Contract (Non-Commercial)General Dynamicsline 1283243GD Mission Systems SCM-TMP-048 — T&M Purchase Orders for Non-Commercial Items in Support of a U.S. Government ContractGeneral Dynamicsline 2256122GD Mission Systems SCM-TMP-095 — FFP Purchase Orders for Commercial/COTS Products or Services in Support of a U.S. Government ContractGeneral Dynamicsline 1129273BAE Systems Inc. USGOVA — FAR/DFARS Flow Down Provisions for Subcontracts/Purchase Orders under a U.S. Government (DoD) Prime ContractBAE Systemsline 1157178AAR Component Services NY — U.S. Government Contract FAR and DFARS Clauses Incorporated by ReferenceAAR Corpline 1013

Source: acquisition.gov, DFARS 252.225-7015 and 225.7002-3(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.