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

DFARS 252.246-7004 Safety of Facilities, Infrastructure, and Equipment for Military Operations.

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 requires contractors to ensure that facilities, infrastructure, and equipment they acquire, construct, install, repair, maintain, or operate under the contract meet Unified Facilities Criteria (UFC) 1-200-01 for several listed areas, such as fire protection and structural integrity. It matters because it sets a specific compliance standard for the work and allows an equivalent or stricter standard only with written approval from the Contracting Officer and the relevant Discipline Working Group.

Applies to: Contractors performing work on facilities, infrastructure, and equipment for military operations under this contract

What it requires

  • Ensure facilities, infrastructure, and equipment comply with UFC 1-200-01 for the listed areas, consistent with the applicable inspection clause
  • Obtain a written determination from the Contracting Officer, with concurrence of the relevant Discipline Working Group, before applying an equivalent or more stringent standard

Key terms: Discipline Working Group · Unified Facilities Criteria (UFC) 1-200-01 · Contracting Officer · facilities, infrastructure, and equipment

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

The text

As prescribed in 246.270-4, use the following clause:

Safety of Facilities, Infrastructure, and Equipment for Military Operations (OCT 2010)

(a) Definition. Discipline Working Group, as used in this clause, means representatives from the DoD Components, as defined in MIL-STD-3007F, who are responsible for the unification and maintenance of the Unified Facilities Criteria (UFC) documents for a particular discipline area.

(b) The Contractor shall ensure, consistent with the requirements of the applicable inspection clause in this contract, that the facilities, infrastructure, and equipment acquired, constructed, installed, repaired, maintained, or operated under this contract comply with Unified Facilities Criteria (UFC) 1-200-01 for—

(1) Fire protection;

(2) Structural integrity;

(3) Electrical systems;

(4) Plumbing;

(5) Water treatment;

(6) Waste disposal; and

(7) Telecommunications networks.

(c) The Contractor may apply a standard equivalent to or more stringent than UFC 1-200-01 upon a written determination of the acceptability of the standard by the Contracting Officer with the concurrence of the relevant Discipline Working Group.

(End of clause)

Sections it refers to

Sections that refer to it

  • 212.301 Solicitation provisions and contract clauses for the acquisition of commercial products and commercial services.
  • 246.101 Definitions.
  • 246.270-4 Contract clause.

← 252.246-7003 Notification of Potential Safety Issues. · 252.246-7005 Notice of Warranty Tracking of Serialized Items. →

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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