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DFARS 252.246-7008 Sources of Electronic Parts

Does the regulation require it to flow down?

Yes

Subs (including commercial) for electronic parts — EXCEPT when the sub is the original manufacturer

Form
substance
Reaches
all tiers

Checked against acquisition.gov on 2026-08-07 · edition JAN 2023 · base v0.9.3 Read the text ↗

What it makes you produce

3 items for your checklist, slowest first.

  1. 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 purchasing process that goes to the original manufacturer or its authorized supplier first, then to a supplier you have approved, and a documented route for the times neither is available

      DFARS 252.246-7008(b)

  2. Something you write2

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

    • Lot-level traceability from the original manufacturer forward, and where it cannot be established, the inspection and test records that stand in its place

      DFARS 252.246-7008(c)
    • A documented statement to the buyer that the electronic parts supplied are new or previously unused

      Owed when the order makes that statement the condition for setting aside the notification, inspection, testing and authentication actions at (b)(3)(ii) — the BlueForge purchase order does exactly that

      DFARS 252.246-7008

When it is used

Contracts for electronic parts, for anything CONTAINING electronic parts, or for services where the contractor supplies either. 246.870-3(b) reaches all three and says so expressly for FAR part 12 commercial buys.

Read closely

(b)(3)(i) is what pulls in the (b)(3)(ii) actions: a part from outside the approved sources, a supplier that refuses the clause, or a part that cannot be confirmed as new and uncommingled. (b)(3)(ii) is then written notice to the contracting officer, inspection, testing and authentication at your cost, and the records held for the Government. (d) covers parts bought from Government sources, where authenticity responsibility sits with the Government instead, and (e) carries the clause into your own subcontracts unless the supplier is the original manufacturer.

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 175143CORPDOC 3A — FAR/DFARS Flowdown Provisions for Fixed Price Non-Commercial Items under a DoD Prime ContractLockheed Martinline 460155CORPDOC 4A — FAR/DFARS Flowdown Provisions for Cost-Reimbursement/T&M Subcontracts under a DoD Prime ContractLockheed Martinline 499233RTX Flowdown of U.S. Government Contract Clauses Under U.S. Government ContractsRTXline 78751Raytheon TC-001 — General Terms and Conditions of PurchaseRTXline 59060Raytheon TC-003 — Supplement 2: Government Contract Provisions from the DFARSRTXline 179166Northrop Grumman CTM-P-ST-001 — U.S. Government Firm Fixed Price Order (Not for Commercial Products and Services)Northrop Grummanline 138569Northrop Grumman CTM-P-ST-002 — U.S. Government FFP or T&M Order for Commercial Products and ServicesNorthrop Grummanline 1482166Northrop Grumman CTM-P-ST-003 — U.S. Government T&M Order (Not for Commercial Products and Services)Northrop Grummanline 1357168Northrop Grumman CTM-P-ST-004 — U.S. Government Cost Reimbursement Order (Not for Commercial Products and Services)Northrop Grummanline 14866Northrop Grumman CTM-P-ST-005 — Non-U.S. Government Firm Fixed Price OrderNorthrop Grummanline 1393255GD Mission Systems SCM-TMP-005 — General Provisions, Firm Fixed Price PO under U.S. Government Contract (Non-Commercial)General Dynamicsline 1402243GD Mission Systems SCM-TMP-048 — T&M Purchase Orders for Non-Commercial Items in Support of a U.S. Government ContractGeneral Dynamicsline 2373122GD Mission Systems SCM-TMP-095 — FFP Purchase Orders for Commercial/COTS Products or Services in Support of a U.S. Government ContractGeneral Dynamicsline 1145240L3Harris LGL-50.F1 — General T&C and Flowdown Clauses for Other Than Commercial Products/Services under a U.S. Government ContractL3Harrisline 2877106L3Harris LGL-50.F2 — General T&C and Flowdown Clauses for Commercial Products/Services under a U.S. Government ContractL3Harrisline 1937273BAE Systems Inc. USGOVA — FAR/DFARS Flow Down Provisions for Subcontracts/Purchase Orders under a U.S. Government (DoD) Prime ContractBAE Systemsline 12256BAE Systems Inc. — General Clauses for Commercial Goods and/or Services under a U.S. Government DoD Prime ContractBAE Systemsline 1285107Honeywell — Supplemental Provisions Under Fixed Price U.S. Government Contracts for Commercial ItemsHoneywellline 105089AAR Government Services — C40 Purchase Order General Provisions, Non-Commercial Firm Fixed Price Items or ServicesAAR Corpline 3292178AAR Component Services NY — U.S. Government Contract FAR and DFARS Clauses Incorporated by ReferenceAAR Corpline 1734

Source: acquisition.gov, DFARS 252.246-7008 and 246.870-3(b) (verified 2026-08-07)

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.