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DFARS 227.7203-11 Contractor procedures and records.

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 describes recordkeeping and procedure requirements tied to certain DFARS clauses about rights in noncommercial computer software and technical data. It matters because contractors and their subcontractors or suppliers who deliver such software or documentation with other than unlimited rights must have written procedures and records to justify restrictive markings. It also requires records to justify asserted restrictions on computer software.

Applies to: Contractors and their subcontractors or suppliers delivering noncommercial computer software or documentation with other than unlimited rights

What it requires

  • Establish and follow written procedures to assure restrictive markings are used only when authorized
  • Maintain records to justify the validity of restrictive markings
  • Maintain records sufficient to justify the validity of markings asserting restrictions on computer software

Key terms: restrictive markings · unlimited rights · computer software · computer software documentation · subcontractors or suppliers

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

The text

(a) The clauses at 252.227-7014, Rights in Other Than Commercial Computer Software and Other Than Commercial Computer Software Documentation, and 252.227-7018, Rights in Other Than Commercial Technical Data and Computer Software—Small Business Innovation Research Program and Small Business Technology Transfer Program, require a contractor, and its subcontractors or suppliers that will deliver computer software or computer software documentation with other than unlimited rights, to establish and follow written procedures to assure that restrictive markings are used only when authorized and to maintain records to justify the validity of restrictive markings.

(b) The clause at 252.227-7019, Validation of Asserted Restrictions—Computer Software, requires contractors and their subcontractors or suppliers at any tier to maintain records sufficient to justify the validity of markings that assert restrictions on the use, modification, reproduction, release, performance, display, or disclosure of computer software.

Sections it refers to

  • 252.227-7014 Rights in Other Than Commercial Computer Software and Other Than Commercial Computer Software Documentation.
  • 252.227-7018 Rights in Other Than Commercial Technical Data and Computer Software—Small Business Innovation Research Program and Small Business Technology Transfer Program.
  • 252.227-7019 Validation of Asserted Restrictions—Computer Software.

Sections that refer to it

← 227.7203-10 Contractor identification and marking of computer software or computer software documentation to be furnished with restrictive markings. · 227.7203-12 Government right to establish conformity of markings. →

Rule changes for DFARS Part 227

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

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