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DFARS 252.239-7017 Notice of Supply Chain Risk.

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 provision defines supply chain risk and tells offerors that the Government may use authorities under 10 U.S.C. 3252 to manage that risk. It also warns that if the Government limits disclosure of information under those authorities, its actions cannot be challenged in a bid protest before the GAO or in Federal court.

Applies to: Offerors responding to solicitations that include this provision

Key terms: supply chain risk · covered system · all-source intelligence · bid protest · Government Accountability Office

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

The text

As prescribed in 239.7306(a), use the following provision:

Notice of Supply Chain Risk (DEC 2022)

(a) Definition. Supply chain risk, as used in this provision, means the risk that an adversary may sabotage, maliciously introduce unwanted function, or otherwise subvert the design, integrity, manufacturing, production, distribution, installation, operation, or maintenance of a covered system so as to surveil, deny, disrupt, or otherwise degrade the function, use, or operation of such system (see 10 U.S.C. 3252).

(b) In order to manage supply chain risk, the Government may use the authorities provided by 10 U.S.C. 3252. In exercising these authorities, the Government may consider information, public and non-public, including all-source intelligence, relating to an offeror and its supply chain.

(c) If the Government exercises the authority provided in 10 U.S.C. 3252 to limit disclosure of information, no action undertaken by the Government under such authority shall be subject to review in a bid protest before the Government Accountability Office or in any Federal court.

(End of provision)

Sections it refers to

  • 239.7306 Solicitation provision and contract clause.

Sections that refer to it

  • 212.301 Solicitation provisions and contract clauses for the acquisition of commercial products and commercial services.
  • 239.7306 Solicitation provision and contract clause.

← 252.239-7016 Telecommunications security equipment, devices, techniques, and services. · 252.239-7018 Supply Chain Risk. →

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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