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DFARS 252.227-7030 Technical Data—Withholding of Payment

Deviation number 252.227-7996. DoD Class Deviation 2026-O0036 rewrites DFARS part 227 for the FAR overhaul. It prescribes 252.227-7996 in place of 252.227-7030, so a document written under it can cite 252.227-7996 instead. The two texts can differ. The source at the foot of this page says how.

Does the regulation require it to flow down?

No

No flowdown paragraph in the text. Primes replicate the mechanism in the subcontract (mirrored withholding on the sub's payment) so they don't end up with 10% of their own contract stuck over a CDRL that depends on the sub.

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 2026-08-11 · edition MAR 2000 · base v0.9.3 Read the text ↗

What it makes you produce

One item for your checklist.

  1. 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: up to ten percent of the price can be held back, and it is released when the data is accepted rather than when a fix is promised

      Owed when technical data is delivered late or arrives deficient — including a restrictive marking that is not on the assertions list required by 252.227-7013(e)(2) or 252.227-7018(e)(2)

      252.227-7030(a)

When it is used

Prescribed at 227.7103-6(e)(2) or 227.7104-4(b)(6) — contracts with delivery of noncommercial technical data (the 7013/7018 regime). If the technical data is not delivered on time or arrives deficient, the CO may withhold up to 'ten percent (10%) of the total contract price or amount', unless a smaller percentage is specified. Exception: delay from causes beyond the contractor's control and without its fault.

Read closely

Delay from causes beyond your control and without your fault or negligence is carved out of the withholding, and that is a record made while it is happening rather than afterwards. A smaller percentage applies where the contract specifies one.

The 13 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 439155CORPDOC 4A — FAR/DFARS Flowdown Provisions for Cost-Reimbursement/T&M Subcontracts under a DoD Prime ContractLockheed Martinline 474233RTX Flowdown of U.S. Government Contract Clauses Under U.S. Government ContractsRTXline 1554166Northrop Grumman CTM-P-ST-001 — U.S. Government Firm Fixed Price Order (Not for Commercial Products and Services)Northrop Grummanline 2509166Northrop Grumman CTM-P-ST-003 — U.S. Government T&M Order (Not for Commercial Products and Services)Northrop Grummanline 2446168Northrop Grumman CTM-P-ST-004 — U.S. Government Cost Reimbursement Order (Not for Commercial Products and Services)Northrop Grummanline 2543255GD Mission Systems SCM-TMP-005 — General Provisions, Firm Fixed Price PO under U.S. Government Contract (Non-Commercial)General Dynamicsline 1381243GD Mission Systems SCM-TMP-048 — T&M Purchase Orders for Non-Commercial Items in Support of a U.S. Government ContractGeneral Dynamicsline 2290240L3Harris LGL-50.F1 — General T&C and Flowdown Clauses for Other Than Commercial Products/Services under a U.S. Government ContractL3Harrisline 2707273BAE Systems Inc. USGOVA — FAR/DFARS Flow Down Provisions for Subcontracts/Purchase Orders under a U.S. Government (DoD) Prime ContractBAE Systemsline 1288107Honeywell — Supplemental Provisions Under Fixed Price U.S. Government Contracts for Commercial ItemsHoneywellline 96489AAR Government Services — C40 Purchase Order General Provisions, Non-Commercial Firm Fixed Price Items or ServicesAAR Corpline 3237178AAR Component Services NY — U.S. Government Contract FAR and DFARS Clauses Incorporated by ReferenceAAR Corpline 1322

Source: acquisition.gov, DFARS 252.227-7030. CODIFIED REGIME, read 2026-08-11 on the part-252 page at DFARS Change 5/7/2026: "As prescribed at 227.7103-6(e)(2) or 227.7104-4(b)(6), use the following clause:" with designation TECHNICAL DATA—WITHHOLDING OF PAYMENT (MAR 2000). DEVIATION REGIME: the number appears ZERO times in the part-27 memo, whose successor 252.227-7996 carries the same title at a moved prescription. The negative is asserted against the whole memo and not a window of it. TO RE-DERIVE WITHOUT REDOING THE RESEARCH: fetch acquisition.gov/sites/default/files/page_file_uploads/DoD_RFO_Deviation_Part-27.pdf (1125972 bytes, 117 pages, DARS Tracking Number 2026-O0036, "Effective February 1, 2026, contracting officers shall use"), run pdftotext -layout over it, and grep for 252.227-7030 — 0 occurrences on 2026-08-11, poppler pdftotext. (verified 2026-08-11)

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.