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FAR 52.215-14 Integrity of Unit Prices

Does the regulation require it to flow down?

Yes

(c): in all subcontracts, except ≤ SAT, construction/A-E, utilities, services without supplies, commercial and petroleum

Form
substance, minus paragraph (b) — the anti-broker identification stays at the prime level
Reaches
all tiers (the substance includes the obligation to insert it in subcontracts)

Checked against acquisition.gov on 2026-08-04 · edition NOV 2021 (Basic); Alt I OCT 1997 · 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 identification of the supplies you will not manufacture, or to which you will not contribute significant value

      Owed when the buyer requests it. Paragraph (c) leaves paragraph (b) out of what travels into a subcontract, so this reaches you only where your order carries the clause whole rather than its substance

      FAR 52.215-14(b)

When it is used

Enters nearly every prime contract (15.408(f)(1)), except: ≤ SAT, construction/A-E (Part 36), utilities (Part 41), services with no supplies furnished, commercial acquisitions and petroleum. Flows down to all subcontracts with the same exceptions — no threshold of its own beyond the SAT exception.

Read closely

The rule the clause is really about is at paragraph (a) and asks for no paper: cost is distributed across the line items in proportion to each item's base cost, and a method that distorts unit prices is not used — distributing cost equally across line items is the example the paragraph itself gives. Paragraph (c) carries the substance down less paragraph (b), and leaves out acquisitions at or below the simplified acquisition threshold, construction and architect-engineer work, utilities, services where supplies are not required, commercial products and services, and petroleum products.

Alternates

  • Alt I · OCT 1997

    FAR 15.408(f)(2).

    Alt I substitutes paragraph (b) so that identifying the supplies the offeror will not manufacture becomes a standing duty rather than an answer given when the contracting officer asks. The document is the same one; what goes away is the condition on it, and a duty that no longer waits to be asked for is a different duty.

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 134155CORPDOC 4A — FAR/DFARS Flowdown Provisions for Cost-Reimbursement/T&M Subcontracts under a DoD Prime ContractLockheed Martinline 140233RTX Flowdown of U.S. Government Contract Clauses Under U.S. Government ContractsRTXline 1079105Raytheon TC-002 — Supplement 1: Government Contract Provisions from the FARRTXline 197166Northrop Grumman CTM-P-ST-001 — U.S. Government Firm Fixed Price Order (Not for Commercial Products and Services)Northrop Grummanline 2210166Northrop Grumman CTM-P-ST-003 — U.S. Government T&M Order (Not for Commercial Products and Services)Northrop Grummanline 2156168Northrop Grumman CTM-P-ST-004 — U.S. Government Cost Reimbursement Order (Not for Commercial Products and Services)Northrop Grummanline 2245255GD Mission Systems SCM-TMP-005 — General Provisions, Firm Fixed Price PO under U.S. Government Contract (Non-Commercial)General Dynamicsline 942243GD Mission Systems SCM-TMP-048 — T&M Purchase Orders for Non-Commercial Items in Support of a U.S. Government ContractGeneral Dynamicsline 1865240L3Harris LGL-50.F1 — General T&C and Flowdown Clauses for Other Than Commercial Products/Services under a U.S. Government ContractL3Harrisline 1418273BAE Systems Inc. USGOVA — FAR/DFARS Flow Down Provisions for Subcontracts/Purchase Orders under a U.S. Government (DoD) Prime ContractBAE Systemsline 717178AAR Component Services NY — U.S. Government Contract FAR and DFARS Clauses Incorporated by ReferenceAAR Corpline 402

Source: acquisition.gov, FAR 52.215-14 and 15.408(f)(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.