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FAR 52.203-19 Prohibition on Requiring Certain Internal Confidentiality Agreements or Statements

Does the regulation require it to flow down?

Yes

All subcontracts

Form
via the 52.244-6 list; paragraph (c) requires notifying employees and subs
Reaches
all tiers

Checked against acquisition.gov on 2026-08-09 · edition Jan 2017 · 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 written notice to current employees and suppliers that existing confidentiality terms blocking a report of waste, fraud or abuse are no longer in effect

      Owed where agreements or statements signed before this contract carry prohibitions inconsistent with (b)

      FAR 52.203-19(c)

When it is used

All solicitations/contracts; no threshold.

Read closely

(b) is the standing prohibition on requiring such terms in the first place, and (d) leaves the Government's classified-information forms — Standard Form 312, Form 4414 and equivalents — untouched. The definition in (a) covers any written statement on nondisclosure of company information, not only a document titled NDA.

The 18 templates that name it, with the line
76CORPDOC 2A — FAR/DFARS Flowdown Provisions for Commercial Products/Services under a DoD Prime ContractLockheed Martinline 75143CORPDOC 3A — FAR/DFARS Flowdown Provisions for Fixed Price Non-Commercial Items under a DoD Prime ContractLockheed Martinline 84155CORPDOC 4A — FAR/DFARS Flowdown Provisions for Cost-Reimbursement/T&M Subcontracts under a DoD Prime ContractLockheed Martinline 85233RTX Flowdown of U.S. Government Contract Clauses Under U.S. Government ContractsRTXline 53151Raytheon TC-001 — General Terms and Conditions of PurchaseRTXline 436166Northrop Grumman CTM-P-ST-001 — U.S. Government Firm Fixed Price Order (Not for Commercial Products and Services)Northrop Grummanline 217069Northrop Grumman CTM-P-ST-002 — U.S. Government FFP or T&M Order for Commercial Products and ServicesNorthrop Grummanline 2321166Northrop Grumman CTM-P-ST-003 — U.S. Government T&M Order (Not for Commercial Products and Services)Northrop Grummanline 2117168Northrop Grumman CTM-P-ST-004 — U.S. Government Cost Reimbursement Order (Not for Commercial Products and Services)Northrop Grummanline 2213255GD Mission Systems SCM-TMP-005 — General Provisions, Firm Fixed Price PO under U.S. Government Contract (Non-Commercial)General Dynamicsline 908243GD Mission Systems SCM-TMP-048 — T&M Purchase Orders for Non-Commercial Items in Support of a U.S. Government ContractGeneral Dynamicsline 1815122GD Mission Systems SCM-TMP-095 — FFP Purchase Orders for Commercial/COTS Products or Services in Support of a U.S. Government ContractGeneral Dynamicsline 940240L3Harris LGL-50.F1 — General T&C and Flowdown Clauses for Other Than Commercial Products/Services under a U.S. Government ContractL3Harrisline 1348106L3Harris LGL-50.F2 — General T&C and Flowdown Clauses for Commercial Products/Services under a U.S. Government ContractL3Harrisline 1424273BAE Systems Inc. USGOVA — FAR/DFARS Flow Down Provisions for Subcontracts/Purchase Orders under a U.S. Government (DoD) Prime ContractBAE Systemsline 202107Honeywell — Supplemental Provisions Under Fixed Price U.S. Government Contracts for Commercial ItemsHoneywellline 5489AAR Government Services — C40 Purchase Order General Provisions, Non-Commercial Firm Fixed Price Items or ServicesAAR Corpline 1438178AAR Component Services NY — U.S. Government Contract FAR and DFARS Clauses Incorporated by ReferenceAAR Corpline 139

Source: acquisition.gov, FAR 52.203-19, codified text read at FAC 2026-01 (effective 2026-03-13), prescribed at 3.909-3(b) with designation (Jan 2017), 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.