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DFARS 252.225-7025 Restriction on Acquisition of Forgings

Does the regulation require it to flow down?

Yes

(e): 'in subcontracts for forging items or for other items that contain forging items' — no dollar threshold and no commercial exception in the text

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

Checked against acquisition.gov on 2026-08-04 · edition DEC 2009 · base v0.9.3 Read the text ↗

What it makes you produce

3 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 statement from the forge for each ship propulsion shaft, periscope tube, or bull gear ring forging, and for forgings sitting inside what you deliver — evidence the prime weighs, not paper the clause names

      DFARS 252.225-7025

  2. Something you write2

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

    • The records showing compliance with the restriction, held until three years after final payment and made available when the contracting officer asks

      DFARS 252.225-7025(d)
    • A waiver request covering the forging items, made under the procedure at DFARS 225.7102-3

      Owed when no viable domestic source exists — a request made before manufacture, since the restriction is on what is delivered

      DFARS 252.225-7025(c)

When it is used

At the prime: contracts for forging items — ship propulsion shafts, periscope tubes, and ring forgings for bull gears over 120 inches in diameter — or for items containing them (225.7102-4), except the 225.7102-2 exceptions: SAP acquisitions (unless the forging is itself the end item), overseas purchases for overseas use, or quantities beyond the mobilization base. Flows down in subcontracts for forging items or for items containing them.

Read closely

(b) confines the listed forgings to domestic manufacture — the United States, its outlying areas, or Canada. (c) and (d) are the two paragraphs that name something you send, and (d) names records rather than a certificate, so what the records consist of is left open.

The 10 templates that name it, with the line
233RTX Flowdown of U.S. Government Contract Clauses Under U.S. Government ContractsRTXline 1496166Northrop Grumman CTM-P-ST-001 — U.S. Government Firm Fixed Price Order (Not for Commercial Products and Services)Northrop Grummanline 2476166Northrop Grumman CTM-P-ST-003 — U.S. Government T&M Order (Not for Commercial Products and Services)Northrop Grummanline 2406168Northrop Grumman CTM-P-ST-004 — U.S. Government Cost Reimbursement Order (Not for Commercial Products and Services)Northrop Grummanline 2504255GD Mission Systems SCM-TMP-005 — General Provisions, Firm Fixed Price PO under U.S. Government Contract (Non-Commercial)General Dynamicsline 1287243GD Mission Systems SCM-TMP-048 — T&M Purchase Orders for Non-Commercial Items in Support of a U.S. Government ContractGeneral Dynamicsline 2261240L3Harris LGL-50.F1 — General T&C and Flowdown Clauses for Other Than Commercial Products/Services under a U.S. Government ContractL3Harrisline 2409273BAE Systems Inc. USGOVA — FAR/DFARS Flow Down Provisions for Subcontracts/Purchase Orders under a U.S. Government (DoD) Prime ContractBAE Systemsline 1170107Honeywell — Supplemental Provisions Under Fixed Price U.S. Government Contracts for Commercial ItemsHoneywellline 757178AAR Component Services NY — U.S. Government Contract FAR and DFARS Clauses Incorporated by ReferenceAAR Corpline 1030

Source: acquisition.gov, DFARS 252.225-7025, 225.7102-2 and 225.7102-4 (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.