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DFARS 252.246-7007 Contractor Counterfeit Electronic Part Detection and Avoidance System

Does the regulation require it to flow down?

Yes

Subs (including commercial) for electronic parts

Form: substance (paragraphs (a)–(e))
Reaches: all tiers (criterion (f)(9))

Checked against acquisition.gov on 2026-08-09 · edition JAN 2023 · base v0.9.3 Read the text ↗

What it makes you produce

One item for your checklist.

A program you have to be running
You are either running it or you are not, and what the prime asks for is the date it started.
- A documented counterfeit electronic part detection and avoidance program covering the twelve areas the clause lists — training, inspection and testing, traceability, quarantine, and reporting among them
  DFARS 252.246-7007(c)

When it is used

Contracts for electronic parts/assemblies from CAS-covered contractors (CAS condition: high confidence, prescription 246.870-3 not re-read). Rework costs due to counterfeits are unallowable.

Read closely

(b) is what requires the system to exist and be maintained, (c) is the list of what its risk-based policies and procedures have to address, and (d) is the Government's review and evaluation of it. For a small distributor this is the heaviest single line in the electronics group.

The 21 templates that name it, with the line

76CORPDOC 2A — FAR/DFARS Flowdown Provisions for Commercial Products/Services under a DoD Prime ContractLockheed Martinline 172 143CORPDOC 3A — FAR/DFARS Flowdown Provisions for Fixed Price Non-Commercial Items under a DoD Prime ContractLockheed Martinline 458 155CORPDOC 4A — FAR/DFARS Flowdown Provisions for Cost-Reimbursement/T&M Subcontracts under a DoD Prime ContractLockheed Martinline 497 233RTX Flowdown of U.S. Government Contract Clauses Under U.S. Government ContractsRTXline 786 51Raytheon TC-001 — General Terms and Conditions of PurchaseRTXline 586 60Raytheon TC-003 — Supplement 2: Government Contract Provisions from the DFARSRTXline 175 166Northrop Grumman CTM-P-ST-001 — U.S. Government Firm Fixed Price Order (Not for Commercial Products and Services)Northrop Grummanline 1385 69Northrop Grumman CTM-P-ST-002 — U.S. Government FFP or T&M Order for Commercial Products and ServicesNorthrop Grummanline 1482 166Northrop Grumman CTM-P-ST-003 — U.S. Government T&M Order (Not for Commercial Products and Services)Northrop Grummanline 1357 168Northrop Grumman CTM-P-ST-004 — U.S. Government Cost Reimbursement Order (Not for Commercial Products and Services)Northrop Grummanline 1486 6Northrop Grumman CTM-P-ST-005 — Non-U.S. Government Firm Fixed Price OrderNorthrop Grummanline 1393 255GD Mission Systems SCM-TMP-005 — General Provisions, Firm Fixed Price PO under U.S. Government Contract (Non-Commercial)General Dynamicsline 705 243GD Mission Systems SCM-TMP-048 — T&M Purchase Orders for Non-Commercial Items in Support of a U.S. Government ContractGeneral Dynamicsline 1059 122GD Mission Systems SCM-TMP-095 — FFP Purchase Orders for Commercial/COTS Products or Services in Support of a U.S. Government ContractGeneral Dynamicsline 1144 240L3Harris LGL-50.F1 — General T&C and Flowdown Clauses for Other Than Commercial Products/Services under a U.S. Government ContractL3Harrisline 209 106L3Harris LGL-50.F2 — General T&C and Flowdown Clauses for Commercial Products/Services under a U.S. Government ContractL3Harrisline 209 10BAE Systems Inc. USGOVGOODS — General Clauses for Subcontracts/Purchase Orders for Goods under a U.S. Government Prime ContractBAE Systemsline 1387 273BAE Systems Inc. USGOVA — FAR/DFARS Flow Down Provisions for Subcontracts/Purchase Orders under a U.S. Government (DoD) Prime ContractBAE Systemsline 1223 6BAE Systems Inc. — General Clauses for Commercial Goods and/or Services under a U.S. Government DoD Prime ContractBAE Systemsline 1285 107Honeywell — Supplemental Provisions Under Fixed Price U.S. Government Contracts for Commercial ItemsHoneywellline 1045 178AAR Component Services NY — U.S. Government Contract FAR and DFARS Clauses Incorporated by ReferenceAAR Corpline 1651

Source: acquisition.gov, DFARS 252.246-7007, codified text read at DFARS Change 5/7/2026, prescribed at 246.870-3(a) with designation (JAN 2023); RFO class deviation 2026-O0035 (DFARS part 246, effective 2026-02-01) prints the same prescription and the same designation, so the two regimes agree (verified 2026-08-09)

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.