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DFARS 252.227-7019 Validation of Asserted Restrictions—Computer Software

Does the regulation require it to flow down?

Yes

(i): insert 'in all contracts, purchase orders, and other similar instruments with its subcontractors or suppliers, at any tier, who will be furnishing computer software to the Government'

Form
verbatim ('insert this clause'), including paragraph (i) itself
Reaches
all tiers furnishing software to the government in performance of the contract

Checked against acquisition.gov on 2026-08-04 · edition JAN 2025 · base v0.9.3 Read the text ↗

What it makes you produce

2 items for your checklist, slowest first.

  1. Something you write

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

    • A written justification, detailed enough for the restriction to be ruled on

      Owed when a written challenge notice arrives — 60 days to answer, and silence through them lets a decision go against the restriction

      252.227-7019(f)(1)

  2. Nothing to send now

    It does not hold the order. It decides what money moves later — what you can claim, what can be claimed from you, and what can be held back — and none of that changes after signature.

    • Nothing to send now: the records that justify every restriction asserted on delivered software are what a challenge to it is decided on

      Owed when you asserted a restriction on software delivered, required to be delivered, or otherwise provided under the order

      252.227-7019(b)

When it is used

Contracts with delivery of noncommercial software (prescriptions 227.7104-4(b)(3) or 227.7203-6(c)); no dollar threshold. The government can challenge asserted restrictions for up to 6 years from delivery or final payment (whichever is later).

Read closely

Paragraph (d) is a request for information rather than a challenge, and answering that one is cheaper than answering (f). The Government may deal with a supplier directly on this, without going through the tier above ((c)), so the defense belongs to whoever made the assertion. Paragraph (g) sets what an appeal does to the restriction meanwhile.

The 15 templates that name it, with the line
76CORPDOC 2A — FAR/DFARS Flowdown Provisions for Commercial Products/Services under a DoD Prime ContractLockheed Martinline 160143CORPDOC 3A — FAR/DFARS Flowdown Provisions for Fixed Price Non-Commercial Items under a DoD Prime ContractLockheed Martinline 426155CORPDOC 4A — FAR/DFARS Flowdown Provisions for Cost-Reimbursement/T&M Subcontracts under a DoD Prime ContractLockheed Martinline 465233RTX Flowdown of U.S. Government Contract Clauses Under U.S. Government ContractsRTXline 153460Raytheon TC-003 — Supplement 2: Government Contract Provisions from the DFARSRTXline 135166Northrop Grumman CTM-P-ST-001 — U.S. Government Firm Fixed Price Order (Not for Commercial Products and Services)Northrop Grummanline 2504166Northrop Grumman CTM-P-ST-003 — U.S. Government T&M Order (Not for Commercial Products and Services)Northrop Grummanline 2441168Northrop Grumman CTM-P-ST-004 — U.S. Government Cost Reimbursement Order (Not for Commercial Products and Services)Northrop Grummanline 2538255GD Mission Systems SCM-TMP-005 — General Provisions, Firm Fixed Price PO under U.S. Government Contract (Non-Commercial)General Dynamicsline 1376243GD Mission Systems SCM-TMP-048 — T&M Purchase Orders for Non-Commercial Items in Support of a U.S. Government ContractGeneral Dynamicsline 2285240L3Harris LGL-50.F1 — General T&C and Flowdown Clauses for Other Than Commercial Products/Services under a U.S. Government ContractL3Harrisline 2665106L3Harris LGL-50.F2 — General T&C and Flowdown Clauses for Commercial Products/Services under a U.S. Government ContractL3Harrisline 1818273BAE Systems Inc. USGOVA — FAR/DFARS Flow Down Provisions for Subcontracts/Purchase Orders under a U.S. Government (DoD) Prime ContractBAE Systemsline 1274107Honeywell — Supplemental Provisions Under Fixed Price U.S. Government Contracts for Commercial ItemsHoneywellline 932178AAR Component Services NY — U.S. Government Contract FAR and DFARS Clauses Incorporated by ReferenceAAR Corpline 1192

Source: acquisition.gov, DFARS 252.227-7019; prescriptions 227.7104-4(b)(3), 227.7203-6(c) (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.