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FAR 52.237-2 Protection of Government Buildings, Equipment, and Vegetation

Does the regulation require it to flow down?

No

The prime mirrors it because damage the sub causes on the installation gets charged to the prime — including by direct deduction from the contract price; passing the clause down is how it transfers that bill

A clause can reach your subcontract without a mandate. Once it is in your document, it is a contract term all the same. The missing mandate is a fact about the regulation. It is not a ruling on your order.

Checked against acquisition.gov on 2026-08-04 · edition APR 1984 · base v0.9.3 Read the text ↗

What it makes you produce

One item for your checklist.

  1. Nothing to send, ever

    There is no paperwork here. It is a rule you follow while you perform the work.

    • Nothing to send — the clause requires reasonable care around the installation's buildings, equipment and vegetation, and repair or replacement of what carelessness damages

      FAR 52.237-2

When it is used

Services performed on a Government installation (37.110(b)), any dollar value; not used when the contemplated contract is for construction. No regulatory flowdown — the sub inherits it when the prime mirrors the damage liability onto whoever actually sets foot on the base.

Read closely

The clause is one paragraph with no lettered subdivisions and no submission in it. Repair or replacement is at no expense to the Government and as the contracting officer directs; refusing leaves the cost deductible from the contract price. Since the test is whether care was taken, a dated photographic record of the site before the crew starts is what separates existing damage from yours.

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 263155CORPDOC 4A — FAR/DFARS Flowdown Provisions for Cost-Reimbursement/T&M Subcontracts under a DoD Prime ContractLockheed Martinline 293233RTX Flowdown of U.S. Government Contract Clauses Under U.S. Government ContractsRTXline 938105Raytheon TC-002 — Supplement 1: Government Contract Provisions from the FARRTXline 112166Northrop Grumman CTM-P-ST-001 — U.S. Government Firm Fixed Price Order (Not for Commercial Products and Services)Northrop Grummanline 2333166Northrop Grumman CTM-P-ST-003 — U.S. Government T&M Order (Not for Commercial Products and Services)Northrop Grummanline 2275168Northrop Grumman CTM-P-ST-004 — U.S. Government Cost Reimbursement Order (Not for Commercial Products and Services)Northrop Grummanline 2374255GD Mission Systems SCM-TMP-005 — General Provisions, Firm Fixed Price PO under U.S. Government Contract (Non-Commercial)General Dynamicsline 1077243GD Mission Systems SCM-TMP-048 — T&M Purchase Orders for Non-Commercial Items in Support of a U.S. Government ContractGeneral Dynamicsline 2114240L3Harris LGL-50.F1 — General T&C and Flowdown Clauses for Other Than Commercial Products/Services under a U.S. Government ContractL3Harrisline 1933273BAE Systems Inc. USGOVA — FAR/DFARS Flow Down Provisions for Subcontracts/Purchase Orders under a U.S. Government (DoD) Prime ContractBAE Systemsline 66889AAR Government Services — C40 Purchase Order General Provisions, Non-Commercial Firm Fixed Price Items or ServicesAAR Corpline 3035

Source: acquisition.gov, FAR 52.237-2 and 37.110(b) (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.