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DFARS 252.227-7016 Rights in Bid or Proposal Information

Does the regulation require it to flow down?

Yes

(f): include the clause 'in all subcontracts or similar contractual instruments and require its subcontractors or suppliers to do so' — no threshold and no subject-matter condition

Form
verbatim ('without alteration, except to identify the parties')
Reaches
all tiers — (f) requires each sub to demand the same of its suppliers

Checked against acquisition.gov on 2026-08-04 · edition JAN 2023 · 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.

    • Nothing to send. It fences what the Government may do with the bid or proposal information you have already handed over — reproduction for evaluation before award, use inside the Government after it

      Owed when your bid or proposal information is in the Government's hands; the fence changes at award, and release outside the Government needs your written permission

      252.227-7016(b) and (c)(1)

When it is used

Comes in with the noncommercial data rights package (prescriptions 227.7103-6(e)(1), 227.7104-4(b)(1), or 227.7203-6(b)) when the acquisition involves technical data or software; no dollar threshold. Before award, the government uses the proposal only for evaluation; after, internal use only — except what is delivered as technical data/software, which follows the rights clauses.

Read closely

Anything you deliver as technical data or software is governed by 252.227-7013 or 252.227-7014 instead ((c)(2)), so the protection here stops where the deliverables start. Paragraph (f) carries the clause into your own subcontracts with no dollar threshold and no subject-matter test.

The 14 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 425155CORPDOC 4A — FAR/DFARS Flowdown Provisions for Cost-Reimbursement/T&M Subcontracts under a DoD Prime ContractLockheed Martinline 464233RTX Flowdown of U.S. Government Contract Clauses Under U.S. Government ContractsRTXline 153060Raytheon TC-003 — Supplement 2: Government Contract Provisions from the DFARSRTXline 130166Northrop Grumman CTM-P-ST-001 — U.S. Government Firm Fixed Price Order (Not for Commercial Products and Services)Northrop Grummanline 2503166Northrop Grumman CTM-P-ST-003 — U.S. Government T&M Order (Not for Commercial Products and Services)Northrop Grummanline 2440168Northrop Grumman CTM-P-ST-004 — U.S. Government Cost Reimbursement Order (Not for Commercial Products and Services)Northrop Grummanline 2537255GD Mission Systems SCM-TMP-005 — General Provisions, Firm Fixed Price PO under U.S. Government Contract (Non-Commercial)General Dynamicsline 1374243GD Mission Systems SCM-TMP-048 — T&M Purchase Orders for Non-Commercial Items in Support of a U.S. Government ContractGeneral Dynamicsline 2283240L3Harris LGL-50.F1 — General T&C and Flowdown Clauses for Other Than Commercial Products/Services under a U.S. Government ContractL3Harrisline 2638106L3Harris LGL-50.F2 — General T&C and Flowdown Clauses for Commercial Products/Services under a U.S. Government ContractL3Harrisline 1781273BAE Systems Inc. USGOVA — FAR/DFARS Flow Down Provisions for Subcontracts/Purchase Orders under a U.S. Government (DoD) Prime ContractBAE Systemsline 1271107Honeywell — Supplemental Provisions Under Fixed Price U.S. Government Contracts for Commercial ItemsHoneywellline 90689AAR Government Services — C40 Purchase Order General Provisions, Non-Commercial Firm Fixed Price Items or ServicesAAR Corpline 3225

Source: acquisition.gov, DFARS 252.227-7016; prescriptions 227.7103-6(e)(1), 227.7104-4(b)(1), 227.7203-6(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.