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FAR 52.203-14 Display of Hotline Poster(s)

Does the regulation require it to flow down?

Yes

(d): 'in all subcontracts that exceed the threshold specified in FAR 3.1004(b)(1) on the date of subcontract award' ($7.5M today), except a sub (1) for a commercial product/service or (2) performed entirely outside the US.

Form
substance, including paragraph (d) itself
Reaches
all tiers

Checked against acquisition.gov on 2026-08-04 · edition NOV 2021 · base v0.9.3 Read the text ↗

What it makes you produce

2 items for your checklist, slowest first.

  1. Something somebody else has to issue you

    The same day if the issuer is one of your own suppliers, months if it is an assessor or an underwriter.

    • The agency or Homeland Security fraud hotline poster the contract names, printed by the agency that issues it and displayed in common work areas and at the work sites in the United States

      Owed unless you already run a business ethics and conduct awareness program with a reporting mechanism — (c) drops the agency poster then, and never the Homeland Security one

      FAR 52.203-14(b)(1)

  2. Something you write

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

    • An electronic copy of the same poster on the company website, where one is already used to reach employees

      FAR 52.203-14(b)(2)

When it is used

At the prime: contracts above $7.5M (or a lower agency-set amount) when the agency has a fraud poster or there are disaster assistance funds; except commercial and performance entirely outside the US — FAR 3.1004(b)(1). Flows down via (d) to subs above the same threshold, with the same two exceptions.

Read closely

(b)(3) is a fill-in table: the contracting officer writes in which posters apply and where to get them, so a subcontract that names none leaves an open question rather than a duty. The poster itself is written by the agency, not by you — the only authored piece here is the web page in (b)(2).

The 12 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 79155CORPDOC 4A — FAR/DFARS Flowdown Provisions for Cost-Reimbursement/T&M Subcontracts under a DoD Prime ContractLockheed Martinline 79233RTX Flowdown of U.S. Government Contract Clauses Under U.S. Government ContractsRTXline 1143105Raytheon TC-002 — Supplement 1: Government Contract Provisions from the FARRTXline 225166Northrop Grumman CTM-P-ST-001 — U.S. Government Firm Fixed Price Order (Not for Commercial Products and Services)Northrop Grummanline 2162166Northrop Grumman CTM-P-ST-003 — U.S. Government T&M Order (Not for Commercial Products and Services)Northrop Grummanline 2109168Northrop Grumman CTM-P-ST-004 — U.S. Government Cost Reimbursement Order (Not for Commercial Products and Services)Northrop Grummanline 2205255GD Mission Systems SCM-TMP-005 — General Provisions, Firm Fixed Price PO under U.S. Government Contract (Non-Commercial)General Dynamicsline 898243GD Mission Systems SCM-TMP-048 — T&M Purchase Orders for Non-Commercial Items in Support of a U.S. Government ContractGeneral Dynamicsline 1810240L3Harris LGL-50.F1 — General T&C and Flowdown Clauses for Other Than Commercial Products/Services under a U.S. Government ContractL3Harrisline 1320273BAE Systems Inc. USGOVA — FAR/DFARS Flow Down Provisions for Subcontracts/Purchase Orders under a U.S. Government (DoD) Prime ContractBAE Systemsline 535178AAR Component Services NY — U.S. Government Contract FAR and DFARS Clauses Incorporated by ReferenceAAR Corpline 125

Source: acquisition.gov, FAR 52.203-14 + prescription 3.1004(b) (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.