FAR and DFARS › DFARS Part 203: Improper Business Practices and Personal Conflicts of Interest › Subpart 203.9
DFARS 203.909-3 Solicitation provision and contract clause.
The codified text (eCFR, as of 2026-10-02). Under the Revolutionary FAR Overhaul ↗, agencies follow class deviations with new text for many parts while the formal rules go through the Federal Register: check the solicitation and your contract's clauses, which rule.
In plain English
This section directs contracting officers to use the FAR provision 52.203-18 and clause 52.203-19 to implement section 883 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021. It matters to contractors because it tells them which solicitation provision and contract clause will be included to prohibit certain internal confidentiality agreements or statements.
Applies to: DoD solicitations and contracts
Key terms: solicitation provision · contract clause · internal confidentiality agreements · National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021
Written by AI from this section's text. A guide, not legal advice: the text below rules.
The text
Use the provision at FAR 52.203-18, Prohibition on Contracting with Entities That Require Certain Internal Confidentiality Agreements or Statements—Representation, and the clause at FAR 52.203-19, Prohibition on Requiring Certain Internal Confidentiality Agreements or Statements, prescribed at FAR 3.909-3 to implement section 883 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021.
Sections it refers to
← 203.909 Prohibition on providing funds to an entity that requires certain internal confidentiality agreements or statements. · 203.970 Contract clause. →
Rule changes for DFARS Part 203
- Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement: Inflation Adjustment of Acquisition-Related Thresholds (DFARS Case 2024-D002) ↗ · final rule 2025-08-25 · effective 2025-10-01
- Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement: Inflation Adjustment of Acquisition-Related Thresholds (DFARS Case 2024-D002) ↗ · proposed 2025-01-17 · comments due 2025-03-18
- Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement: Inapplicability of Additional Defense-Unique Laws and Certain Non-Statutory DFARS Clauses to Commercial Item Contracts (DFARS Case 2018-D074) ↗ · final rule 2024-11-15 · effective 2024-11-25
Source: eCFR, 48 CFR chapters 1 and 2 (GPO GovInfo bulk data) ↗. Plain words for the terms: glossary.