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FAR 52.203-7 Anti-Kickback Procedures

Does the regulation require it to flow down?

Yes

All subcontracts > $200,000

Form
substance, except (c)(1)
Reaches
cascades above the threshold

Checked against acquisition.gov on 2026-08-09 · edition Jun 2020 · base v0.9.3 Read the text ↗

What it makes you produce

2 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.

    • Reasonable procedures in place and in use to prevent and detect kickbacks in your own operations and in your direct business relationships

      FAR 52.203-7(c)(1)

  2. Something you write

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

    • A written report to the agency Inspector General, or to the Attorney General where the agency has none

      Owed promptly on reasonable grounds to believe a kickback described in (b) may have occurred

      FAR 52.203-7(c)(2)

When it is used

Contracts > $200,000 (was $150k until 2025-09-30); not used in commercial acquisitions (the statute applies regardless).

Read closely

(c)(5) is the paragraph that decides which of these two travels: the substance carried into lower-tier subcontracts is the clause excepting (c)(1), so the procedures duty attaches where the whole clause was written in and not where only its substance was. (c)(3) is full cooperation with a federal investigation, and (c)(4) lets the contracting officer offset a kickback against money owed, or direct the prime to withhold it from a supplier.

The 16 templates that name it, with the line
5CORPDOC 2 — General Provisions for Commercial Products/Services under a U.S. Government Prime ContractLockheed Martinline 3395CORPDOC 3 — General Provisions for Fixed Price Non-Commercial Subcontracts under a U.S. Government Prime ContractLockheed Martinline 3075CORPDOC 4 — General Provisions for Cost-Reimbursement/T&M Subcontracts under a U.S. Government Prime ContractLockheed Martinline 310233RTX Flowdown of U.S. Government Contract Clauses Under U.S. Government ContractsRTXline 105751Raytheon TC-001 — General Terms and Conditions of PurchaseRTXline 423105Raytheon TC-002 — Supplement 1: Government Contract Provisions from the FARRTXline 175166Northrop Grumman CTM-P-ST-001 — U.S. Government Firm Fixed Price Order (Not for Commercial Products and Services)Northrop Grummanline 2151166Northrop Grumman CTM-P-ST-003 — U.S. Government T&M Order (Not for Commercial Products and Services)Northrop Grummanline 2098168Northrop Grumman CTM-P-ST-004 — U.S. Government Cost Reimbursement Order (Not for Commercial Products and Services)Northrop Grummanline 2187255GD Mission Systems SCM-TMP-005 — General Provisions, Firm Fixed Price PO under U.S. Government Contract (Non-Commercial)General Dynamicsline 915243GD Mission Systems SCM-TMP-048 — T&M Purchase Orders for Non-Commercial Items in Support of a U.S. Government ContractGeneral Dynamicsline 1804240L3Harris LGL-50.F1 — General T&C and Flowdown Clauses for Other Than Commercial Products/Services under a U.S. Government ContractL3Harrisline 128210BAE Systems Inc. USGOVGOODS — General Clauses for Subcontracts/Purchase Orders for Goods under a U.S. Government Prime ContractBAE Systemsline 1021273BAE Systems Inc. USGOVA — FAR/DFARS Flow Down Provisions for Subcontracts/Purchase Orders under a U.S. Government (DoD) Prime ContractBAE Systemsline 6976BAE Systems Inc. — General Clauses for Commercial Goods and/or Services under a U.S. Government DoD Prime ContractBAE Systemsline 876178AAR Component Services NY — U.S. Government Contract FAR and DFARS Clauses Incorporated by ReferenceAAR Corpline 69

Source: acquisition.gov, FAR 52.203-7, codified text read at FAC 2026-01 (effective 2026-03-13), prescribed at 3.502-3 with designation (Jun 2020), 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.