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FAR 52.215-13 Subcontractor Certified Cost or Pricing Data—Modifications

Does the regulation require it to flow down?

Yes

(d), verbatim: 'The Contractor shall insert the substance of this clause, including this paragraph (d), in each subcontract that exceeds the threshold for submission of certified cost or pricing data in FAR 15.403-4(a)(1) on the date of agreement on price or the date of award, whichever is later.'

Form
substance, including paragraph (d) itself
Reaches
all tiers

Checked against acquisition.gov on 2026-08-04 · edition JUN 2020 (Basic); Alt I OCT 2025 · base v0.9.3 Read the text ↗

What it makes you produce

2 items for your checklist, slowest first.

  1. Something you write

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

    • The substance of this clause, including paragraph (d) itself, written into your own subcontracts

      Owed on each subcontract that exceeds the certified cost or pricing data threshold on the date of agreement on price or the date of award, whichever is later

      FAR 52.215-13(d)

  2. Nothing to send now

    It does not hold the order. It decides what money moves later — what you can claim, what can be claimed from you, and what can be held back — and none of that changes after signature.

    • The same certified package from your own supplier at any modification whose pricing adjustment is expected to cross $2.5 million, with the certification current as of the date price was agreed

      FAR 52.215-13(b) and (c)

When it is used

Enters the prime's contract together with 52.215-11 (15.408(e)), when modifications will require certified cost or pricing data. Flows down at award into every subcontract above the TINA threshold — even if the original award did not require data — to govern future modifications exceeding $2.5M. (Trigger corrected 2026-08-05, backlog item 12: the entry gated on the dollar threshold and `commercial == false` and stopped there, so a non-commercial order above the threshold came out `applies` — deciding a question 15.408 leaves to 15.403-1(b). The family was also inconsistent with itself: 52.215-11 and 52.215-21 carried a structural leg for this and 52.215-10, -12, -13 and -20 did not. Prescription verified against acquisition.gov, FAR 15.408.)

Read closely

Paragraph (a) holds paragraphs (b) and (c) dormant until a modification of that size arrives, and a modification gives no advance warning — the estimating system has to be able to produce a Table 15-2 at any point during performance.

The 12 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 132155CORPDOC 4A — FAR/DFARS Flowdown Provisions for Cost-Reimbursement/T&M Subcontracts under a DoD Prime ContractLockheed Martinline 138233RTX Flowdown of U.S. Government Contract Clauses Under U.S. Government ContractsRTXline 1109105Raytheon TC-002 — Supplement 1: Government Contract Provisions from the FARRTXline 214166Northrop Grumman CTM-P-ST-001 — U.S. Government Firm Fixed Price Order (Not for Commercial Products and Services)Northrop Grummanline 2208166Northrop Grumman CTM-P-ST-003 — U.S. Government T&M Order (Not for Commercial Products and Services)Northrop Grummanline 2154168Northrop Grumman CTM-P-ST-004 — U.S. Government Cost Reimbursement Order (Not for Commercial Products and Services)Northrop Grummanline 2243255GD Mission Systems SCM-TMP-005 — General Provisions, Firm Fixed Price PO under U.S. Government Contract (Non-Commercial)General Dynamicsline 941243GD Mission Systems SCM-TMP-048 — T&M Purchase Orders for Non-Commercial Items in Support of a U.S. Government ContractGeneral Dynamicsline 1090240L3Harris LGL-50.F1 — General T&C and Flowdown Clauses for Other Than Commercial Products/Services under a U.S. Government ContractL3Harrisline 1616273BAE Systems Inc. USGOVA — FAR/DFARS Flow Down Provisions for Subcontracts/Purchase Orders under a U.S. Government (DoD) Prime ContractBAE Systemsline 746178AAR Component Services NY — U.S. Government Contract FAR and DFARS Clauses Incorporated by ReferenceAAR Corpline 394

Source: acquisition.gov, FAR 52.215-13 and 15.408(e)(1) (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.