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DFARS 252.225-7016 Restriction on Acquisition of Ball and Roller Bearings

Does the regulation require it to flow down?

Yes

(f): 'in all subcontracts, except those for—(1) Commercial products; or (2) Items that do not contain ball or roller bearings'

Form
substance, including paragraph (f) itself
Reaches
all tiers

Checked against acquisition.gov on 2026-08-04 · edition JAN 2023 · base v0.9.3 Read the text ↗

What it makes you produce

2 items for your checklist, slowest first.

  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.

    • An origin declaration from the bearing maker or distributor covering where the bearing was manufactured and the cost share of its components — a datasheet does not say where the ring was forged, and the prime asking for it sets what is enough

      DFARS 252.225-7016

  2. Something you write

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

    • A waiver request covering the bearings, made under the procedure at DFARS 225.7009-4

      Owed when the restriction in (b) cannot be met and relief is being sought — (d) says it may be waived upon request from the Contractor

      DFARS 252.225-7016(d)

When it is used

At the prime: solicitations and contracts, including FAR Part 12, unless (1) the items are commercial products that are not bearings purchased as end items, (2) the items contain no bearings, or (3) a waiver was granted (225.7009-5 / 225.7009-4). Flows down in all subcontracts except those for commercial products and those for items with no bearings.

Read closely

(b) is the restriction: manufacture in the United States, its outlying areas, or Canada, with more than half the component cost from those places. (c) carries the exceptions, and (e) keeps the specialty-metals restriction in 252.225-7009 running on top of this one. No paragraph of the clause names an origin declaration; (d) is the one paragraph that names something you send.

The 12 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 397155CORPDOC 4A — FAR/DFARS Flowdown Provisions for Cost-Reimbursement/T&M Subcontracts under a DoD Prime ContractLockheed Martinline 432233RTX Flowdown of U.S. Government Contract Clauses Under U.S. Government ContractsRTXline 149460Raytheon TC-003 — Supplement 2: Government Contract Provisions from the DFARSRTXline 111166Northrop Grumman CTM-P-ST-001 — U.S. Government Firm Fixed Price Order (Not for Commercial Products and Services)Northrop Grummanline 2473166Northrop Grumman CTM-P-ST-003 — U.S. Government T&M Order (Not for Commercial Products and Services)Northrop Grummanline 2403168Northrop Grumman CTM-P-ST-004 — U.S. Government Cost Reimbursement Order (Not for Commercial Products and Services)Northrop Grummanline 2501255GD Mission Systems SCM-TMP-005 — General Provisions, Firm Fixed Price PO under U.S. Government Contract (Non-Commercial)General Dynamicsline 1284243GD Mission Systems SCM-TMP-048 — T&M Purchase Orders for Non-Commercial Items in Support of a U.S. Government ContractGeneral Dynamicsline 2257240L3Harris LGL-50.F1 — General T&C and Flowdown Clauses for Other Than Commercial Products/Services under a U.S. Government ContractL3Harrisline 2356273BAE Systems Inc. USGOVA — FAR/DFARS Flow Down Provisions for Subcontracts/Purchase Orders under a U.S. Government (DoD) Prime ContractBAE Systemsline 1158178AAR Component Services NY — U.S. Government Contract FAR and DFARS Clauses Incorporated by ReferenceAAR Corpline 1023

Source: acquisition.gov, DFARS 252.225-7016 and 225.7009-5 (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.