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FAR 52.204-9 Personal Identity Verification of Contractor Personnel

Does the regulation require it to flow down?

Yes

(d): insert the clause in subcontracts whose employees need routine access to a federal facility or system; the prime remains responsible for returning the credentials absent the CO's written approval

Form
substance
Reaches
all tiers

Checked against acquisition.gov on 2026-08-04 · edition JAN 2011 · 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.

    • An account of every form of Government-provided identification issued to your employees, and those credentials returned at the earliest of the end of the work, the employee's separation, or the end of the contract

      FAR 52.204-9(b)

When it is used

Enters when contractor employees need routine physical access to a federal facility or routine access to a federal information system (prescription 4.1303); no threshold. Flows down to the sub under the same condition — a sub working only in its own shop is not reached.

Read closely

(a) is the whole of what the clause asks in its own voice: that the agency's personal identity verification procedures identified in the contract are followed. The background check and the credential itself live inside those procedures and run on the agency's calendar — this clause points at them and does not restate them, so there is no paragraph here to cite for the badge. (d) carries the substance into your own orders when a lower tier's people need that access.

The 15 templates that name it, with the line
76CORPDOC 2A — FAR/DFARS Flowdown Provisions for Commercial Products/Services under a DoD Prime ContractLockheed Martinline 197143CORPDOC 3A — FAR/DFARS Flowdown Provisions for Fixed Price Non-Commercial Items under a DoD Prime ContractLockheed Martinline 87155CORPDOC 4A — FAR/DFARS Flowdown Provisions for Cost-Reimbursement/T&M Subcontracts under a DoD Prime ContractLockheed Martinline 89233RTX Flowdown of U.S. Government Contract Clauses Under U.S. Government ContractsRTXline 821105Raytheon TC-002 — Supplement 1: Government Contract Provisions from the FARRTXline 32166Northrop Grumman CTM-P-ST-001 — U.S. Government Firm Fixed Price Order (Not for Commercial Products and Services)Northrop Grummanline 2175166Northrop Grumman CTM-P-ST-003 — U.S. Government T&M Order (Not for Commercial Products and Services)Northrop Grummanline 2122168Northrop Grumman CTM-P-ST-004 — U.S. Government Cost Reimbursement Order (Not for Commercial Products and Services)Northrop Grummanline 2218255GD Mission Systems SCM-TMP-005 — General Provisions, Firm Fixed Price PO under U.S. Government Contract (Non-Commercial)General Dynamicsline 925243GD Mission Systems SCM-TMP-048 — T&M Purchase Orders for Non-Commercial Items in Support of a U.S. Government ContractGeneral Dynamicsline 1847122GD Mission Systems SCM-TMP-095 — FFP Purchase Orders for Commercial/COTS Products or Services in Support of a U.S. Government ContractGeneral Dynamicsline 942240L3Harris LGL-50.F1 — General T&C and Flowdown Clauses for Other Than Commercial Products/Services under a U.S. Government ContractL3Harrisline 1359273BAE Systems Inc. USGOVA — FAR/DFARS Flow Down Provisions for Subcontracts/Purchase Orders under a U.S. Government (DoD) Prime ContractBAE Systemsline 21489AAR Government Services — C40 Purchase Order General Provisions, Non-Commercial Firm Fixed Price Items or ServicesAAR Corpline 1519178AAR Component Services NY — U.S. Government Contract FAR and DFARS Clauses Incorporated by ReferenceAAR Corpline 293

Source: acquisition.gov, FAR 52.204-9 and 4.1303 (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.