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FAR 52.222-41 Service Contract Labor Standards

Does the regulation require it to flow down?

Yes

Every subcontract subject to the SCA

Form
verbatim (this clause) + attached wage determinations
Reaches
all tiers of the service scope

Checked against acquisition.gov on 2026-08-09 · edition Aug 2018 · base v0.9.3 Read the text ↗

What it makes you produce

3 items for your checklist, slowest first.

  1. Something you write2

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

    • Time and payroll records for each service employee — name, classification, rate, fringe benefits, hours worked and deductions — made and kept for three years from completion of the work and open to the Wage and Hour Division

      FAR 52.222-41(i)

    • Notice to each service employee starting work of the minimum wage and fringe benefits owed, given in writing or delivered by posting the wage determination with Department of Labor publication WH-1313

      FAR 52.222-41(g)

  2. Something you fill in and send back

    Hours, once you know which one is missing.

    • Standard Form 1444, Request for Authorization of Additional Classification and Rate, submitted to the buyer

      Owed when a class of employee that the wage determination does not list performs work on the contract — the form is due no later than 30 days after that work begins

      FAR 52.222-41(c)(2)(ii)

When it is used

Service contracts > $2,500 performed in the US with service employees (statutory threshold, not adjustable).

Read closely

The rates come from the wage determination attached to the order, by occupational category, and those move on their own schedule rather than the clause's. A misclassified worker is a retroactive wage liability. Paragraph (p) is a certification made by entering into the contract rather than a document to send. Paragraph (l) puts the clause into every subcontract subject to the statute, and paragraph (m) deals with a collective bargaining agreement covering service employees on a predecessor contract.

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 105143CORPDOC 3A — FAR/DFARS Flowdown Provisions for Fixed Price Non-Commercial Items under a DoD Prime ContractLockheed Martinline 177155CORPDOC 4A — FAR/DFARS Flowdown Provisions for Cost-Reimbursement/T&M Subcontracts under a DoD Prime ContractLockheed Martinline 193233RTX Flowdown of U.S. Government Contract Clauses Under U.S. Government ContractsRTXline 57251Raytheon TC-001 — General Terms and Conditions of PurchaseRTXline 472105Raytheon TC-002 — Supplement 1: Government Contract Provisions from the FARRTXline 52166Northrop Grumman CTM-P-ST-001 — U.S. Government Firm Fixed Price Order (Not for Commercial Products and Services)Northrop Grummanline 2270166Northrop Grumman CTM-P-ST-003 — U.S. Government T&M Order (Not for Commercial Products and Services)Northrop Grummanline 2212168Northrop Grumman CTM-P-ST-004 — U.S. Government Cost Reimbursement Order (Not for Commercial Products and Services)Northrop Grummanline 2303255GD Mission Systems SCM-TMP-005 — General Provisions, Firm Fixed Price PO under U.S. Government Contract (Non-Commercial)General Dynamicsline 963243GD Mission Systems SCM-TMP-048 — T&M Purchase Orders for Non-Commercial Items in Support of a U.S. Government ContractGeneral Dynamicsline 1952122GD Mission Systems SCM-TMP-095 — FFP Purchase Orders for Commercial/COTS Products or Services in Support of a U.S. Government ContractGeneral Dynamicsline 1006240L3Harris LGL-50.F1 — General T&C and Flowdown Clauses for Other Than Commercial Products/Services under a U.S. Government ContractL3Harrisline 1697106L3Harris LGL-50.F2 — General T&C and Flowdown Clauses for Commercial Products/Services under a U.S. Government ContractL3Harrisline 1455273BAE Systems Inc. USGOVA — FAR/DFARS Flow Down Provisions for Subcontracts/Purchase Orders under a U.S. Government (DoD) Prime ContractBAE Systemsline 318107Honeywell — Supplemental Provisions Under Fixed Price U.S. Government Contracts for Commercial ItemsHoneywellline 20089AAR Government Services — C40 Purchase Order General Provisions, Non-Commercial Firm Fixed Price Items or ServicesAAR Corpline 1823178AAR Component Services NY — U.S. Government Contract FAR and DFARS Clauses Incorporated by ReferenceAAR Corpline 697

Source: acquisition.gov, FAR 52.222-41, codified text read at FAC 2026-01 (effective 2026-03-13), prescribed at 22.1006(a) with designation (Aug 2018); the RFO Part 52 disposition table prescribes it at 22.1002-2(b)(1) and prints (Deviation DATE), so the model text is rewritten rather than carried over (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.