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FAR 52.203-17 Contractor Employee Whistleblower Rights

Does the regulation require it to flow down?

Yes

(c): insert the substance of the clause, including paragraph (c) itself, in all subcontracts — no threshold and no value exception

Form: substance
Reaches: all tiers

Checked against acquisition.gov on 2026-08-04 · edition NOV 2023 · base v0.9.3 Read the text ↗

What it makes you produce

One item for your checklist.

Something you write
Days to weeks, and nobody outside your company has to agree to it.
- A written notice to employees, in the predominant language of the workforce, of their whistleblower rights under 41 U.S.C. 4712
  FAR 52.203-17(b)

When it is used

Enters practically every civilian-agency contract, no value threshold, and flows down to all subcontracts via (c). On a DoD contract the equivalent role belongs to DFARS 252.203-7002 — if both show up in the same package, it is the prime's lazy template, not your mistake.

Read closely

The same notice a DoD order asks for under DFARS 252.203-7002, written on a different statute. Where both numbers arrive in one package, one notice covering both statutes is what the two paragraphs describe between them.

The 15 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 82 155CORPDOC 4A — FAR/DFARS Flowdown Provisions for Cost-Reimbursement/T&M Subcontracts under a DoD Prime ContractLockheed Martinline 82 233RTX Flowdown of U.S. Government Contract Clauses Under U.S. Government ContractsRTXline 530 105Raytheon TC-002 — Supplement 1: Government Contract Provisions from the FARRTXline 188 166Northrop Grumman CTM-P-ST-001 — U.S. Government Firm Fixed Price Order (Not for Commercial Products and Services)Northrop Grummanline 2169 69Northrop Grumman CTM-P-ST-002 — U.S. Government FFP or T&M Order for Commercial Products and ServicesNorthrop Grummanline 2320 166Northrop Grumman CTM-P-ST-003 — U.S. Government T&M Order (Not for Commercial Products and Services)Northrop Grummanline 2116 168Northrop Grumman CTM-P-ST-004 — U.S. Government Cost Reimbursement Order (Not for Commercial Products and Services)Northrop Grummanline 2212 255GD Mission Systems SCM-TMP-005 — General Provisions, Firm Fixed Price PO under U.S. Government Contract (Non-Commercial)General Dynamicsline 906 243GD Mission Systems SCM-TMP-048 — T&M Purchase Orders for Non-Commercial Items in Support of a U.S. Government ContractGeneral Dynamicsline 1814 122GD Mission Systems SCM-TMP-095 — FFP Purchase Orders for Commercial/COTS Products or Services in Support of a U.S. Government ContractGeneral Dynamicsline 939 240L3Harris LGL-50.F1 — General T&C and Flowdown Clauses for Other Than Commercial Products/Services under a U.S. Government ContractL3Harrisline 1341 106L3Harris LGL-50.F2 — General T&C and Flowdown Clauses for Commercial Products/Services under a U.S. Government ContractL3Harrisline 1422 273BAE Systems Inc. USGOVA — FAR/DFARS Flow Down Provisions for Subcontracts/Purchase Orders under a U.S. Government (DoD) Prime ContractBAE Systemsline 198 178AAR Component Services NY — U.S. Government Contract FAR and DFARS Clauses Incorporated by ReferenceAAR Corpline 135

Source: acquisition.gov, FAR 52.203-17 (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.