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FAR and DFARS › DFARS Part 227: Patents, Data, and Copyrights › Subpart 227.72

DFARS 227.7203-3 Early identification of computer software or computer software documentation to be furnished to the Government with restrictions on use, reproduction, or disclosure.

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 tells contracting officers to include the provision at 252.227-7017 in solicitations that also include the clause at 252.227-7014. That provision requires offerors to identify any computer software or documentation for which they assert restrictions (other than copyright) on use, modification, reproduction, release, performance, display, or disclosure, and to attach that identification and assertion to their offer. After award, the clause at 252.227-7014 allows a contractor, under certain conditions, to make additional assertions of restrictions.

Applies to: Solicitations that include the clause at 252.227-7014, and offerors responding to them

What it requires

  • Include the provision at 252.227-7017 in all solicitations that include the clause at 252.227-7014
  • Identify any computer software or computer software documentation for which restrictions, other than copyright, are asserted
  • Attach the identification and assertion to the offer

Key terms: 252.227-7017 · 252.227-7014 · computer software · computer software documentation · restrictions

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

The text

(a) Use the provision at 252.227-7017, Identification and Assertion of Use, Release, or Disclosure Restrictions, in all solicitation that include the clause at 252.227-7014, Rights in Other Than Commercial Computer Software and Other Than Commercial Computer Software Documentation. The provision requires offerors to identify any computer software or computer software documentation for which restrictions, other than copyright, on use, modification, reproduction, release, performance, display, or disclosure are asserted and to attach the identification and assertion to the offer.

(b) Subsequent to contract award, the clause at 252.227-7014 permits a contractor, under certain conditions, to make additional assertions of restrictions. The prescriptions for the use of that clause and its alternates are at 227.7203-6(a).

Sections it refers to

  • 252.227-7017 Identification and Assertion of Use, Release, or Disclosure Restrictions.
  • 252.227-7014 Rights in Other Than Commercial Computer Software and Other Than Commercial Computer Software Documentation.
  • 227.7203-6 Solicitation provisions and contract clauses.

Sections that refer to it

  • 252.227-7017 Identification and Assertion of Use, Release, or Disclosure Restrictions.

← 227.7203-2 Acquisition of other than commercial computer software and computer software documentation and associated rights. · 227.7203-4 License rights. →

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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