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FAR 52.203-15 Whistleblower Protections Under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009

Does the regulation require it to flow down?

Yes

(b): 'in all subcontracts that are funded in whole or in part with Recovery Act funds' — no value threshold. Without ARRA money, there is no mandate at all: the presence is inherited from the prime's template.

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

Checked against acquisition.gov on 2026-08-04 · edition JUN 2010 — ARRA funds exhausted; current presence is almost always legacy template · base v0.9.3 Read the text ↗

What it makes you produce

One item for your checklist.

  1. Something you write

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

    • A posted notice of employee whistleblower rights under section 1553 of the 2009 Recovery Act

      Owed where Recovery Act money funds the work — (b) carries the clause only into subcontracts funded in whole or in part with those funds

      FAR 52.203-15(a)

When it is used

It only enters (at the prime and the sub) a contract funded in whole or in part with 2009 Recovery Act funds, any value — FAR 3.907-7. In 2026 new ARRA money is practically nonexistent: 16/43 in the corpus indicates template copying, not a real trigger.

Read closely

On an order with no Recovery Act money there is nothing for the notice to be about, which is a question for the prime that placed it: the program's appropriations are long spent and the clause survives in templates rather than in funding.

The 13 templates that name it, with the line
233RTX Flowdown of U.S. Government Contract Clauses Under U.S. Government ContractsRTXline 528166Northrop Grumman CTM-P-ST-001 — U.S. Government Firm Fixed Price Order (Not for Commercial Products and Services)Northrop Grummanline 216569Northrop Grumman CTM-P-ST-002 — U.S. Government FFP or T&M Order for Commercial Products and ServicesNorthrop Grummanline 2318166Northrop Grumman CTM-P-ST-003 — U.S. Government T&M Order (Not for Commercial Products and Services)Northrop Grummanline 2112168Northrop Grumman CTM-P-ST-004 — U.S. Government Cost Reimbursement Order (Not for Commercial Products and Services)Northrop Grummanline 2208255GD Mission Systems SCM-TMP-005 — General Provisions, Firm Fixed Price PO under U.S. Government Contract (Non-Commercial)General Dynamicsline 902243GD Mission Systems SCM-TMP-048 — T&M Purchase Orders for Non-Commercial Items in Support of a U.S. Government ContractGeneral Dynamicsline 1812122GD Mission Systems SCM-TMP-095 — FFP Purchase Orders for Commercial/COTS Products or Services in Support of a U.S. Government ContractGeneral Dynamicsline 937240L3Harris LGL-50.F1 — General T&C and Flowdown Clauses for Other Than Commercial Products/Services under a U.S. Government ContractL3Harrisline 1327106L3Harris LGL-50.F2 — General T&C and Flowdown Clauses for Commercial Products/Services under a U.S. Government ContractL3Harrisline 1420273BAE Systems Inc. USGOVA — FAR/DFARS Flow Down Provisions for Subcontracts/Purchase Orders under a U.S. Government (DoD) Prime ContractBAE Systemsline 194107Honeywell — Supplemental Provisions Under Fixed Price U.S. Government Contracts for Commercial ItemsHoneywellline 45178AAR Component Services NY — U.S. Government Contract FAR and DFARS Clauses Incorporated by ReferenceAAR Corpline 131

Source: acquisition.gov, FAR 52.203-15 + prescription 3.907-7; 52.244-6 and 52.212-5 (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.