FAR and DFARS › DFARS Part 204: Administrative and Information Matters › Subpart 204.71
DFARS 204.7102 Policy.
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 makes the line-item numbering procedures in this DFARS subpart apply to solicitations, contracts, exhibits, and related documents. It also states that those numbering procedures are mandatory for contracts that assign separate contract line item numbers, except for two listed situations.
Applies to: Solicitations, contracts, exhibits, and related documents covered by this DFARS subpart
What it requires
- Apply the numbering procedures to solicitations, solicitation line and subline item numbers, contracts, contract line and subline item numbers, exhibits, exhibit line items, and any other document expected to become part of the contract.
- Use the numbering procedures mandatorily for all contracts where separate contract line item numbers are assigned, unless one of the listed exceptions applies.
Key terms: Solicitation · Contract · Contract line item number · Exhibit line item · Indefinite-delivery type
Written by AI from this section's text. A guide, not legal advice: the text below rules.
The text
(a) The numbering procedures of this subpart shall apply to all—
(1) Solicitations;
(2) Solicitation line and subline item numbers;
(3) Contracts as defined in FAR Subpart 2.1;
(4) Contract line and subline item numbers;
(5) Exhibits;
(6) Exhibit line items; and
(7) Any other document expected to become part of the contract.
(b) The numbering procedures are mandatory for all contracts where separate contract line item numbers are assigned, unless—
(1) The contract is an indefinite-delivery type for petroleum products against which posts, camps, and stations issue delivery orders for products to be consumed by them; or
(2) The contract is a communications service authorization issued by the Defense Information Systems Agency's Defense Information Technology Contracting Organization.
← 204.7101 Definitions. · 204.7103 Contract line items. →
Rule changes for DFARS Part 204
- Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement: Assessing Contractor Implementation of Cybersecurity Requirements (DFARS Case 2019-D041) ↗ · final rule 2025-09-10 · effective 2025-11-10
- 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
- Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement; Technical Amendments ↗ · final rule 2024-09-26 · effective 2024-10-01
- Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement: Data Universal Numbering System to Unique Entity Identifier Transition (DFARS Case 2022-D023) ↗ · final rule 2024-09-26 · effective 2024-10-01
- Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement: Modification of Notification of Intent To Transport Supplies by Sea (DFARS Case 2020-D026) ↗ · final rule 2024-09-26 · effective 2024-10-01
- Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement: Assessing Contractor Implementation of Cybersecurity Requirements (DFARS Case 2019-D041) ↗ · proposed 2024-08-15 · comments due 2024-10-15
- Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement; Technical Amendments ↗ · final rule 2024-07-29 · effective 2024-07-29
- Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement: Modification of Notification of Intent To Transport Supplies by Sea (DFARS Case 2020-D026) ↗ · proposed 2024-03-26 · comments due 2024-05-28
Source: eCFR, 48 CFR chapters 1 and 2 (GPO GovInfo bulk data) ↗. Plain words for the terms: glossary.