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DFARS 215.470 Estimated data prices.

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 explains that DoD needs estimates of data prices to judge the cost of data items by their management, product, or engineering value. When a contract requires data delivery, the solicitation must include DD Form 1423, and the contracting officer must avoid requiring data the contractor already delivered or must deliver elsewhere. If duplicate data are wanted, the contract price covers duplication costs but not preparation costs.

Applies to: DoD contracting officers and contractors under DoD contracts involving data deliverables

What it requires

  • Include DD Form 1423, Contract Data Requirements List, in the solicitation when data are required to be delivered under a contract.
  • Ensure the contract does not require data the contractor has delivered or is obligated to deliver to the government under another contract or subcontract.
  • Ensure the successful offeror identifies any such data required by the solicitation.
  • When duplicate data are desired, include the costs of duplication, but not of preparation, in the contract price.

Key terms: estimated data prices · DD Form 1423 · Contract Data Requirements List · duplicate data · data items

Written by AI from this section's text. A guide, not legal advice: the text below rules.

The text

(a) DoD requires estimates of the prices of data in order to evaluate the cost to the Government of data items in terms of their management, product, or engineering value.

(b) When data are required to be delivered under a contract, include DD Form 1423, Contract Data Requirements List, in the solicitation. See PGI 215.470(b) for guidance on the use of DD Form 1423.

(c) The contracting officer shall ensure that the contract does not include a requirement for data that the contractor has delivered or is obligated to deliver to the government under another contract or subcontract, and that the successful offeror identifies any such data required by the solicitation. However, where duplicate data are desired, the contract price shall include the costs of duplication, but not of preparation, of such data.

← 215.408 Solicitation provisions and contract clauses. · 215.503 Notifications to unsuccessful offerors. →

Rule changes for DFARS Part 215

Source: eCFR, 48 CFR chapters 1 and 2 (GPO GovInfo bulk data) ↗. Plain words for the terms: glossary.

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