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FAR 52.224-3 Privacy Training

Does the regulation require it to flow down?

Yes

(f): in all subcontracts where sub employees will have access to a system of records or will handle PII

Form
substance, including (f) itself
Reaches
all tiers

Checked against acquisition.gov on 2026-08-04 · edition JAN 2017 (Basic, Alt I JAN 2017) · base v0.9.3 Read the text ↗

What it makes you produce

2 items for your checklist, slowest first.

  1. A program you have to be running

    You are either running it or you are not, and what the prime asks for is the date it started.

    • Initial and annual role-based privacy training, with a test of what was learned

      Owed when an employee will have access to a system of records, handle personally identifiable information, or design, develop, maintain or operate a system of records

      52.224-3(b)

  2. Something you write

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

    • The completion records for that training

      Owed when the contracting officer requests them

      52.224-3(d)

When it is used

Contracts where contractor employees have access to a system of records, handle personally identifiable information (PII), or design/develop/maintain/operate an agency system of records. No dollar threshold. Alt I: only training provided by the agency itself counts.

Read closely

Paragraph (e) is the gate a buyer checks first: nobody reaches the records or the data before the training is finished. Agency-developed training satisfies the content list at (c). Where the order names Alternate I the agency provides the course itself, initially and each year after, which moves this from a program you build to a course somebody else has to give you on their calendar — the records still stay yours.

The 16 templates that name it, with the line
76CORPDOC 2A — FAR/DFARS Flowdown Provisions for Commercial Products/Services under a DoD Prime ContractLockheed Martinline 119143CORPDOC 3A — FAR/DFARS Flowdown Provisions for Fixed Price Non-Commercial Items under a DoD Prime ContractLockheed Martinline 200155CORPDOC 4A — FAR/DFARS Flowdown Provisions for Cost-Reimbursement/T&M Subcontracts under a DoD Prime ContractLockheed Martinline 220233RTX Flowdown of U.S. Government Contract Clauses Under U.S. Government ContractsRTXline 57851Raytheon TC-001 — General Terms and Conditions of PurchaseRTXline 492166Northrop Grumman CTM-P-ST-001 — U.S. Government Firm Fixed Price Order (Not for Commercial Products and Services)Northrop Grummanline 230069Northrop Grumman CTM-P-ST-002 — U.S. Government FFP or T&M Order for Commercial Products and ServicesNorthrop Grummanline 2361166Northrop Grumman CTM-P-ST-003 — U.S. Government T&M Order (Not for Commercial Products and Services)Northrop Grummanline 2234168Northrop Grumman CTM-P-ST-004 — U.S. Government Cost Reimbursement Order (Not for Commercial Products and Services)Northrop Grummanline 2332255GD Mission Systems SCM-TMP-005 — General Provisions, Firm Fixed Price PO under U.S. Government Contract (Non-Commercial)General Dynamicsline 1047243GD Mission Systems SCM-TMP-048 — T&M Purchase Orders for Non-Commercial Items in Support of a U.S. Government ContractGeneral Dynamicsline 1968122GD Mission Systems SCM-TMP-095 — FFP Purchase Orders for Commercial/COTS Products or Services in Support of a U.S. Government ContractGeneral Dynamicsline 1019240L3Harris LGL-50.F1 — General T&C and Flowdown Clauses for Other Than Commercial Products/Services under a U.S. Government ContractL3Harrisline 1845106L3Harris LGL-50.F2 — General T&C and Flowdown Clauses for Commercial Products/Services under a U.S. Government ContractL3Harrisline 1503107Honeywell — Supplemental Provisions Under Fixed Price U.S. Government Contracts for Commercial ItemsHoneywellline 31489AAR Government Services — C40 Purchase Order General Provisions, Non-Commercial Firm Fixed Price Items or ServicesAAR Corpline 2787

Source: acquisition.gov, FAR 52.224-3; 52.244-6 (Oct 2025) and 52.212-5 (MAR 2026) (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.