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FAR and DFARS › DFARS Part 252: Solicitation Provisions and Contract Clauses › Subpart 252.2

DFARS 252.236-7013 Requirement for Competition Opportunity for American Steel Producers, Fabricators, and Manufacturers.

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 DFARS clause requires contractors to give American steel producers, fabricators, and manufacturers the opportunity to compete when buying steel as a construction material. It also requires flowing the clause down into subcontracts that involve acquiring steel as a construction material, including commercial product subcontracts. It matters because it affects how contractors source steel and what they must include in their subcontracts.

Applies to: Contractors and subcontractors acquiring steel as a construction material for incorporation into a building or work

What it requires

  • Provide American steel producers, fabricators, and manufacturers the opportunity to compete when acquiring steel as a construction material
  • Insert the substance of this clause, including paragraph (c), in any subcontract that involves the acquisition of steel as a construction material, including subcontracts for commercial products

Key terms: Construction material · American steel producers, fabricators, and manufacturers · Subcontract · Commercial products

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

The text

As prescribed in 236.570(d), use the following clause:

Requirement for Competition Opportunity for American Steel Producers, Fabricators, and Manufacturers (JAN 2023)

(a) Definition. Construction material, as used in this clause, means an article, material, or supply brought to the construction site by the Contractor or a subcontractor for incorporation into the building or work.

(b) The Contractor shall provide American steel producers, fabricators, and manufacturers the opportunity to compete when acquiring steel as a construction material (e.g., steel beams, rods, cables, plates).

(c) The Contractor shall insert the substance of this clause, including this paragraph (c), in any subcontract that involves the acquisition of steel as a construction material, including subcontracts for the acquisition of commercial products.

(End of clause)

Sections it refers to

  • 236.570 Additional provisions and clauses.

Sections that refer to it

  • 236.570 Additional provisions and clauses.

← 252.236-7012 Military construction on Kwajalein Atoll—evaluation preference. · 252.237-7000 Notice of special standards of responsibility. →

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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