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Treat DD Form 1716 as Department-level, which changes how you look for it. Title: DD Form 1716, Contract Date Package Recommendation/Deficiency Report, December 1977. Function: Contract Data Package Recommendation/Deficiency Report. Because the number carries DD rather than a service prefix, the same edition covers all military departments and the defense agencies at once. Nobody issues a Navy copy or an Air Force copy.
Requirement traces to not stated; the form belongs to not stated. Everything about schedule sits below that in local instruction, which is where to ask if a date matters.
Use not stated, status not stated. Older printings circulate widely and lose their currency Department-wide the moment a new edition issues.
Available: PDF, across 2 pages, roughly 39 fields. That is the whole scope of the download decision.
Take the fillable pdf unless you have a reason not to. Fillable means the boxes are real fields that accept typed text and retain it in the file. Printable means a flat blank — no fields, printer and pen only. The difference is not cosmetic: one produces a record that reproduces cleanly through scanning and forwarding, the other depends on penmanship.
What the form asks for
- 1. Control Number.
- 2. Thru (Administrative Contracting Officer (ACO)).
- 3. To (Procuring Contracting Officer (PCO)):
- 4. From:
- 4.a. Reporting element. Press space bar to mark X in first box if CA, second box if S&FM, third box if P, fourth box if Q, or fifth box if other.
- 5. Priority for ACO or PCO reply. X first box if 14 day reply, second box if 30 day, third box if 45 day, or fourth box if no reply (future PCO action).
- 6. Contract Number.
- 7. National Stock Number.
- 7.a. Item Noun name.
- 8. Contractor's Name and complete address.
- 9. Contract Data Package Problem. a. Mark X if Contract and Supporting documentation is late, missing, illegible, there are insuffiecient copies, etc
- 9.b. Mark X if there is deficient contract data package.
- 9.b.(1) Mark X if Item description.
- 9.b.(2) Mark X if Point of inspection or acceptance, C O C or fast pay.
- 9.b.(3) Mark X if Government P Q A and delegation.
- 9.b.(4) Mark X if Code Number and/or address missing or incorrect.
- 9.b.(5) Mark X if Preservation, packaging, packing, consignment and marking.
- 9.b.(6) Mark X if Specifications/ Drawings.
- 9.b.(7) Mark X if Item quantity or dollar value.
- 9.b.(8) Mark X if Missing, improper or conflicting quality requirements.
- 9.b.(9) Mark X if Configuration management, technical data.
- 9.b.(10) Mark X if Appropriation or financial data.
- 9.b.(11) Mark X if Other - Contract administration.
- 9.b.(12) Mark X if Other- S & F M.
Start by matching the printed date to not stated. Old blanks accumulate in shared folders for years. Because the Department reissues to all services in one action, nobody is still accepting the previous layout by local custom.
For anything ambiguous in a specific field, the form's own instructions come first and not stated controls where the two differ.
Submit to the office named in not stated or in local instruction; retain a duplicate before it leaves. Joint routing often sends a DD form across organizational boundaries, and tracing one afterward is not a same-day matter.
Look up cross-referenced forms by series and number. DD numbering is unified across the Department, which removes the usual step of identifying which service issued the thing.
Where a procedure cites both a service form and a DD form, the two are unconnected. Service numbering answers to a service proponent, DD numbering to not stated or another Department office, and the two sequences were never aligned. Matching numbers mean nothing whatever.
Editions change when the prescribing directive is reissued, when the data collected changes, or when notice language is amended. None of that reaches you. Checking not stated at download is the entire defence, and it is cheaper than repeating a submission.
What is here is the blank form and a description of it. What is not here is legal guidance or any assurance about a particular filing — this page is not the issuing authority and does not speak for one. Those questions go to not stated, to your servicing administrative office, or to the authority identified in not stated.
Questions and answers
- What is DD Form 1716?
- DD Form 1716, Contract Date Package Recommendation/Deficiency Report, December 1977
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?