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FAR 52.203-13 Contractor Code of Business Ethics and Conduct

Does the regulation require it to flow down?

Yes

Subs > $7.5M and > 120 days (including commercial, via 52.244-6)

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substance
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cascades above the threshold

Checked against acquisition.gov on 2026-08-09 · edition Nov 2021 · 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.

    • An ethics awareness and training program, and an internal control system with a reporting channel such as a hotline that an employee can use anonymously

      Owed within 90 days of award, unless you represented yourself as a small business concern for this award or the contract is for a commercial product or commercial service — (c) opens by excluding both

      FAR 52.203-13(c)

  2. Something you write2

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

    • A written code of business ethics and conduct, made available to each employee engaged in performance, within 30 days of award

      FAR 52.203-13(b)(1)
    • A written disclosure to the agency Inspector General, copy to the contracting officer

      Owed on credible evidence that a principal, employee, agent or subcontractor committed fraud, bribery, a gratuity or conflict of interest violation, or a civil False Claims Act violation

      FAR 52.203-13(b)(3)(i)

When it is used

Contracts > $7.5M (was $6M until 2025-09-30) AND period of performance > 120 days.

Read closely

The three sit on different clocks. (b)(1) is 30 days and (b)(1)(ii) asks for the code to be made available to each employee rather than handed to them one by one. (b)(3) starts the moment credible evidence appears. The hotline is (c)(2)(ii)(D), inside the internal control system, alongside periodic reviews, monitoring and auditing. On a DoD order 252.203-7003 names which Inspector General receives the (b)(3) disclosure.

The 19 templates that name it, with the line
76CORPDOC 2A — FAR/DFARS Flowdown Provisions for Commercial Products/Services under a DoD Prime ContractLockheed Martinline 72143CORPDOC 3A — FAR/DFARS Flowdown Provisions for Fixed Price Non-Commercial Items under a DoD Prime ContractLockheed Martinline 76155CORPDOC 4A — FAR/DFARS Flowdown Provisions for Cost-Reimbursement/T&M Subcontracts under a DoD Prime ContractLockheed Martinline 76233RTX Flowdown of U.S. Government Contract Clauses Under U.S. Government ContractsRTXline 52651Raytheon TC-001 — General Terms and Conditions of PurchaseRTXline 429105Raytheon TC-002 — Supplement 1: Government Contract Provisions from the FARRTXline 229166Northrop Grumman CTM-P-ST-001 — U.S. Government Firm Fixed Price Order (Not for Commercial Products and Services)Northrop Grummanline 215769Northrop Grumman CTM-P-ST-002 — U.S. Government FFP or T&M Order for Commercial Products and ServicesNorthrop Grummanline 2260166Northrop Grumman CTM-P-ST-003 — U.S. Government T&M Order (Not for Commercial Products and Services)Northrop Grummanline 2104168Northrop Grumman CTM-P-ST-004 — U.S. Government Cost Reimbursement Order (Not for Commercial Products and Services)Northrop Grummanline 2193255GD Mission Systems SCM-TMP-005 — General Provisions, Firm Fixed Price PO under U.S. Government Contract (Non-Commercial)General Dynamicsline 893243GD Mission Systems SCM-TMP-048 — T&M Purchase Orders for Non-Commercial Items in Support of a U.S. Government ContractGeneral Dynamicsline 1808122GD Mission Systems SCM-TMP-095 — FFP Purchase Orders for Commercial/COTS Products or Services in Support of a U.S. Government ContractGeneral Dynamicsline 936240L3Harris LGL-50.F1 — General T&C and Flowdown Clauses for Other Than Commercial Products/Services under a U.S. Government ContractL3Harrisline 1312106L3Harris LGL-50.F2 — General T&C and Flowdown Clauses for Commercial Products/Services under a U.S. Government ContractL3Harrisline 1412273BAE Systems Inc. USGOVA — FAR/DFARS Flow Down Provisions for Subcontracts/Purchase Orders under a U.S. Government (DoD) Prime ContractBAE Systemsline 531107Honeywell — Supplemental Provisions Under Fixed Price U.S. Government Contracts for Commercial ItemsHoneywellline 3589AAR Government Services — C40 Purchase Order General Provisions, Non-Commercial Firm Fixed Price Items or ServicesAAR Corpline 1315178AAR Component Services NY — U.S. Government Contract FAR and DFARS Clauses Incorporated by ReferenceAAR Corpline 117

Source: acquisition.gov, FAR 52.203-13, codified text read at FAC 2026-01 (effective 2026-03-13), prescribed at 3.1004(a) with designation (Nov 2021), and carried over verbatim in the RFO Part 52 disposition table (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.