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DFARS 252.215-7006 Use of Employees or Individual Subcontractors Who Are Members of the Selected Reserve.

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 clause applies when a contractor stated in its offer that it intends to use members of the Selected Reserve to perform the contract. In that case, the contractor must use those employees or individual subcontractors as fully as is consistent with efficient contract performance, and the Government may terminate the contract for default if the contractor willfully or intentionally fails to do so.

Applies to: Contractors that stated in their offer an intent to use Selected Reserve members on the contract

What it requires

  • Use employees or individual subcontractors who are members of the Selected Reserve in contract performance to the fullest extent consistent with efficient contract performance

Key terms: Selected Reserve · individual subcontractors · terminate the contract for default

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

The text

As prescribed in 215.370-3, use the following clause:

Use of Employees or Individual Subcontractors Who Are Members of the Selected Reserve (MAR 2022)

(a) Definition. As used in this clause—

Selected Reserve has the meaning given that term in 10 U.S.C. 10143. Selected Reserve members normally attend regular drills throughout the year and are the group of Reserves most readily available to the President.

(b) If the Contractor stated in its offer that it intends to use members of the Selected Reserve in the performance of this contract—

(1) The Contractor shall use employees, or individual subcontractors, who are members of the Selected Reserve in the performance of the contract to the fullest extent consistent with efficient contract performance; and

(2) The Government has the right to terminate the contract for default if the Contractor willfully or intentionally fails to use members of the Selected Reserve, as employees or individual subcontractors, in the performance of the contract.

(End of clause)

Sections it refers to

Sections that refer to it

← 252.215-7005 [Reserved] · 252.215-7007 Notice of Intent to Resolicit. →

Rule changes for DFARS Part 252

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

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