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FAR 52.204-25 Prohibition on Contracting for Certain Telecommunications and Video Surveillance Services or Equipment

Does the regulation require it to flow down?

Yes

All subcontracts and instruments, including COTS

Form
substance (excluding (b)(2), which stays with the prime)
Reaches
all tiers

Checked against acquisition.gov on 2026-08-09 · edition Nov 2021 · base v0.9.3 Read the text ↗

What it makes you produce

One item for your checklist.

  1. Something you fill in and send back

    Hours, once you know which one is missing.

    • A report — contract number, supplier, brand, model number, item description and any mitigation already under way — with further detail and prevention steps within 10 business days after it

      Owed when you identify covered telecommunications equipment or services in what you supply or use — the first report is due within one business day of that

      FAR 52.204-25(d)

When it is used

All contracts, no dollar exception (including micro-purchase), including commercial and COTS.

Read closely

Paragraph (b) is the prohibition and it reaches the front-desk router and the warehouse cameras as well as what you deliver; paragraph (c) holds the exceptions, which are a service connecting to a third party's facilities and equipment that cannot route or redirect user data or see into packets. Paragraph (e) carries the substance, excluding (b)(2), into all subcontracts and other instruments including commercial and off-the-shelf ones. Reports on a defense order go to dibnet.dod.mil. The model text for the FAR overhaul prints this number as reserved and moves the prohibition into FAR 52.240-91.

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 82143CORPDOC 3A — FAR/DFARS Flowdown Provisions for Fixed Price Non-Commercial Items under a DoD Prime ContractLockheed Martinline 98155CORPDOC 4A — FAR/DFARS Flowdown Provisions for Cost-Reimbursement/T&M Subcontracts under a DoD Prime ContractLockheed Martinline 104233RTX Flowdown of U.S. Government Contract Clauses Under U.S. Government ContractsRTXline 5621Boeing GP1 — General Provisions, Fixed Price Goods Contract (Commercial)Boeingline 607166Northrop Grumman CTM-P-ST-001 — U.S. Government Firm Fixed Price Order (Not for Commercial Products and Services)Northrop Grummanline 219169Northrop Grumman CTM-P-ST-002 — U.S. Government FFP or T&M Order for Commercial Products and ServicesNorthrop Grummanline 2329166Northrop Grumman CTM-P-ST-003 — U.S. Government T&M Order (Not for Commercial Products and Services)Northrop Grummanline 2137168Northrop Grumman CTM-P-ST-004 — U.S. Government Cost Reimbursement Order (Not for Commercial Products and Services)Northrop Grummanline 2226255GD Mission Systems SCM-TMP-005 — General Provisions, Firm Fixed Price PO under U.S. Government Contract (Non-Commercial)General Dynamicsline 930243GD Mission Systems SCM-TMP-048 — T&M Purchase Orders for Non-Commercial Items in Support of a U.S. Government ContractGeneral Dynamicsline 1853122GD Mission Systems SCM-TMP-095 — FFP Purchase Orders for Commercial/COTS Products or Services in Support of a U.S. Government ContractGeneral Dynamicsline 947240L3Harris LGL-50.F1 — General T&C and Flowdown Clauses for Other Than Commercial Products/Services under a U.S. Government ContractL3Harrisline 1431106L3Harris LGL-50.F2 — General T&C and Flowdown Clauses for Commercial Products/Services under a U.S. Government ContractL3Harrisline 126510BAE Systems Inc. USGOVGOODS — General Clauses for Subcontracts/Purchase Orders for Goods under a U.S. Government Prime ContractBAE Systemsline 1119273BAE Systems Inc. USGOVA — FAR/DFARS Flow Down Provisions for Subcontracts/Purchase Orders under a U.S. Government (DoD) Prime ContractBAE Systemsline 238107Honeywell — Supplemental Provisions Under Fixed Price U.S. Government Contracts for Commercial ItemsHoneywellline 9389AAR Government Services — C40 Purchase Order General Provisions, Non-Commercial Firm Fixed Price Items or ServicesAAR Corpline 1592

Source: acquisition.gov, FAR 52.204-25, codified text read at FAC 2026-01 (effective 2026-03-13), prescribed at 4.2105(b) with designation (Nov 2021), and printed [Reserved] 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.