# US Manufacturing RFQ Flow-Down Clause Reference

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## Short answer

A lookup table of common FAR, DFARS, export control and quality clauses that appear in RFQs and purchase orders, with quoting implications.

## Category

compliance-legal

## Industry

Aerospace & Defense

## Region

United States

## Audience

- Estimator
- Contracts manager
- Quality manager

## Tool

**Kind:** worksheet

**Mode:** reference

**Columns:**

#### Clause / standard

**Key:** ref

**Type:** text

#### Title

**Key:** title

**Type:** text

#### Area

**Key:** area

**Type:** select

**Options:**

- Cybersecurity
- Sourcing
- Quality
- Contract
- Export
- Labor
- Environmental

#### What it generally covers

**Key:** meaning

**Type:** text

#### What to check when quoting

**Key:** quote

**Type:** text

**Rows:**

#### Basic Safeguarding of Covered Contractor Information Systems

**Ref:** FAR 52.204-21

**Area:** Cybersecurity

**Meaning:** Fifteen basic safeguarding requirements for systems that hold federal contract information.

**Quote:** Confirm your IT meets basic controls; cost of any gaps.

#### Safeguarding Covered Defense Information and Cyber Incident Reporting

**Ref:** DFARS 252.204-7012

**Area:** Cybersecurity

**Meaning:** Requires adequate security (NIST SP 800-171) on systems with covered defense information and cyber incident reporting within 72 hours.

**Quote:** Whether drawings are CDI; whether your systems meet 800-171; cloud provider must meet FedRAMP Moderate equivalent.

#### NIST SP 800-171 DoD Assessment Requirements

**Ref:** DFARS 252.204-7019 / 7020

**Area:** Cybersecurity

**Meaning:** Requires a current assessment score posted in SPRS and access for DoD assessors.

**Quote:** Confirm a current basic assessment is on file before award.

#### Contractor Compliance with the CMMC Level Requirements

**Ref:** DFARS 252.204-7021

**Area:** Cybersecurity

**Meaning:** Requires the CMMC level specified in the solicitation or contract to be maintained.

**Quote:** Identify the required CMMC level and your status.

#### Prohibition on Contracting for Certain Telecommunications and Video Surveillance Services or Equipment

**Ref:** FAR 52.204-25

**Area:** Sourcing

**Meaning:** Prohibits use of covered telecommunications equipment (Section 889).

**Quote:** Check purchased electronics and your own systems.

#### Restriction on Acquisition of Certain Articles Containing Specialty Metals

**Ref:** DFARS 252.225-7009

**Area:** Sourcing

**Meaning:** Requires specialty metals such as certain titanium, steel and nickel alloys to be melted or produced in the US or a qualifying country.

**Quote:** Mill source and melt origin for all metal; some mills cannot certify.

#### Buy American and Balance of Payments Program

**Ref:** DFARS 252.225-7001

**Area:** Sourcing

**Meaning:** Domestic end product preference with exceptions for qualifying countries.

**Quote:** Country of origin of components and subassemblies.

#### Prohibition of Hexavalent Chromium

**Ref:** DFARS 252.223-7008

**Area:** Environmental

**Meaning:** Restricts hexavalent chromium in items delivered to DoD, with exceptions.

**Quote:** Plating and conversion coatings: use trivalent options.

#### Contractor Counterfeit Electronic Part Detection and Avoidance System

**Ref:** DFARS 252.246-7007

**Area:** Quality

**Meaning:** Requires a system to detect and avoid counterfeit electronic parts.

**Quote:** Authorized sources for electronics and traceability.

#### Sources of Electronic Parts

**Ref:** DFARS 252.246-7008

**Area:** Sourcing

**Meaning:** Requires electronic parts to come from original manufacturers, authorized dealers, or specified trusted suppliers.

**Quote:** Distributor choice and certification paperwork.

#### Item Unique Identification and Valuation

**Ref:** DFARS 252.211-7003

**Area:** Quality

**Meaning:** Requires unique item identifier marking on specified items.

**Quote:** Marking equipment, data matrix verification and registry steps.

#### Inspection of Supplies, Fixed-Price

**Ref:** FAR 52.246-2

**Area:** Quality

**Meaning:** Sets inspection system requirements and government inspection rights for fixed-price supplies.

**Quote:** Inspection records retention and access for customer or government reps.

#### Higher-Level Contract Quality Requirement

**Ref:** FAR 52.246-11

**Area:** Quality

**Meaning:** Specifies a higher-level quality standard such as AS9100 or ISO 9001 for the contract.

**Quote:** Whether your certification covers the required standard.

#### Government Property

**Ref:** FAR 52.245-1

**Area:** Contract

**Meaning:** Covers management and responsibility for government-furnished property.

**Quote:** Tooling or material supplied by the government; record keeping.

#### Termination for Convenience of the Government (Fixed-Price)

**Ref:** FAR 52.249-2

**Area:** Contract

**Meaning:** Allows the government to terminate and compensates for work performed and reasonable costs.

**Quote:** Risk on long-lead material and tooling purchases.

#### Default (Fixed-Price Supply and Service)

**Ref:** FAR 52.249-8

**Area:** Contract

**Meaning:** Allows termination for failure to perform or deliver on time.

**Quote:** Schedule realism and recourse for late supplier items.

#### F.O.B. Destination

**Ref:** FAR 52.247-34

**Area:** Contract

**Meaning:** Seller bears delivery cost and risk to the destination point.

**Quote:** Freight and insurance in the price.

#### Combating Trafficking in Persons

**Ref:** FAR 52.222-50

**Area:** Labor

**Meaning:** Prohibits trafficking-related activities and requires compliance plans in some cases.

**Quote:** Compliance plan requirement for larger overseas value.

#### Utilization of Small Business Concerns

**Ref:** FAR 52.219-8

**Area:** Contract

**Meaning:** Requires giving small businesses maximum practicable opportunity to participate.

**Quote:** Subcontracting plan expectations at larger tiers.

#### International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR)

**Ref:** 22 CFR Parts 120-130

**Area:** Export

**Meaning:** Controls defense articles and technical data on the US Munitions List.

**Quote:** Registration, US-person access, secure data handling.

#### Export Administration Regulations (EAR)

**Ref:** 15 CFR Parts 730-774

**Area:** Export

**Meaning:** Controls dual-use and some military items via the Commerce Control List.

**Quote:** ECCN classification and license needs for foreign persons.

#### Quality Management Systems for Aviation, Space and Defense

**Ref:** AS9100D

**Area:** Quality

**Meaning:** ISO 9001 based standard with added aerospace requirements.

**Quote:** Customer-specified certification and flow-down of requirements.

#### Aerospace First Article Inspection Requirement

**Ref:** AS9102

**Area:** Quality

**Meaning:** Defines first article inspection process and reporting forms.

**Quote:** FAI hours, CMM time and balloon drawings in the price.

#### Automotive Quality Management System Requirements

**Ref:** IATF 16949

**Area:** Quality

**Meaning:** Automotive quality standard built on ISO 9001.

**Quote:** PPAP level, control plan and annual price-down expectations.

#### Quality Management Systems Requirements

**Ref:** ISO 9001:2015

**Area:** Quality

**Meaning:** General quality management system standard.

**Quote:** Certification status and supplier approval forms.

#### Restriction of Hazardous Substances

**Ref:** RoHS Directive 2011/65/EU

**Area:** Environmental

**Meaning:** Restricts certain hazardous substances in electrical and electronic equipment sold in the EU.

**Quote:** Material and plating declarations.

#### Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals

**Ref:** REACH (EC) No 1907/2006

**Area:** Environmental

**Meaning:** EU chemical regulation including substances of very high concern disclosure.

**Quote:** SVHC declaration requests and supplier data.

#### National Aerospace and Defense Contractors Accreditation Program

**Ref:** NADCAP

**Area:** Quality

**Meaning:** Accreditation for special processes such as heat treat, NDT and chemical processing.

**Quote:** Approved special process sources only.

**Notes:** A general orientation list, not legal advice. Clause text and applicability change with revisions and solicitation type, so always read the actual clause version cited in your purchase order and confirm with your contracts counsel. Titles are paraphrased where long.

## Content

**Intro:** Subcontract RFQs and purchase orders often cite clause numbers with little explanation, and the cost impact is rarely in the part price line. This reference helps estimators and contracts staff decode the common ones and know what to check before quoting.

**Sections:**

#### How to use the reference

**Body:** Search by clause number, keyword or area. When a PO or RFQ lists flow-downs, look up each one, read the quoting column, and note any cost or risk items in your quote assumptions. Export the table to Excel to build a clause review matrix for your own quality system. The goal is not to replace a contracts review but to make sure the estimator knows when to escalate before pricing.

#### What typically drives cost

**Body:** Specialty metals restrictions, first article requirements, special process source limits and cybersecurity obligations tend to have the largest quoting impact. Specialty metals may require melt-source certificates from specific mills. Cybersecurity clauses such as DFARS 252.204-7012 can require systems investment well beyond the part. Termination and default clauses affect how much material risk you can accept on long-lead orders.

**Bullets:**

- Sourcing: specialty metals, country of origin, electronic parts.
- Quality: higher-level quality, FAI, UID, counterfeit parts.
- Compliance: ITAR or EAR handling and NIST SP 800-171.

#### How to read a flow-down

**Body:** A flow-down is a clause from a prime contract that the prime requires its suppliers to follow. The same number can have different meaning depending on the version date and whether it is a commercial or government PO. Check the date after the clause number, and check whether the clause applies to you based on value thresholds, item type and data sensitivity. When unsure, ask the buyer to confirm applicability in writing.

#### Common mistakes

**Body:** Quoting first and reading terms after award is the classic failure. Another is assuming that a commercial shop cannot be bound by defense clauses when the PO explicitly cites them. Finally, do not accept cybersecurity clauses without confirming where drawings and models are stored and whether your cloud tools qualify.

**Cta:** If you want incoming PO terms scanned for these clauses and flagged against your certifications, we can help build that review inside your own environment. The table works independently.

**Faq:**

#### What does flow-down mean in manufacturing?

**Answer:** A flow-down passes requirements from a prime contract or customer PO to its suppliers. If a purchase order lists clause numbers, you are expected to comply with them as stated, so they should be reviewed before accepting the order.

#### Is every clause in this list required for every defense part?

**Answer:** No. Applicability depends on the contract type, item, value and data involved. Use the list to know what a clause generally means, then check the actual clause text and applicability with your contracts team.

#### Does DFARS 252.204-7012 apply to small shops?

**Answer:** It applies when a subcontract involves covered defense information and the clause is flowed down, regardless of size. Shops handling controlled technical drawings should confirm obligations and assess their systems against NIST SP 800-171.

#### How current is this table?

**Answer:** It is a general orientation based on commonly cited clause titles. Regulations are revised, and cybersecurity and CMMC rules in particular have changed repeatedly, so verify against the current Federal Acquisition Regulation and DFARS text.

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