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DD Form 2885 is a Department of Defense form, not a service form: DD Form 2885, Personal Commercial Solicitation Evaluation, 20070613 draft, used to Personal Commercial Solicitation Evaluation. The DD prefix is the operative fact. It means one blank serves every military department — Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, Space Force, Coast Guard under Defense jurisdiction — plus the defense agencies and combatant commands. No branch variant exists.
not stated is the prescribing publication and not stated the office responsible for the document. Deadlines belong to local implementing guidance, not to either of those, so a submission date is a question for the receiving office.
Current edition is not stated, carried as not stated. Check that against any copy you already hold before doing anything else — Department-level revisions land everywhere simultaneously, so a stale file is stale across the whole Department.
Available: PDF, across 1 pages, roughly 23 fields. That is the whole scope of the download decision.
Fillable pdf is the default choice. Its boxes hold typed entries inside the document; the printable release is a static image of the same page with no interactive layer. Since DD forms routinely cross between services and agencies before they are filed, typed entries matter more here than on a form that stays inside one office.
What the form asks for
- 1. Sales representative who contacted you and his or her company. a. Name of sales representative.
- 1.b. Company name.
- 2. Making the appointment. Press space bar to mark X in first box if Yes, second box if no. a. The sales representative failed to make an appointment in advance to see me.
- 2.b. The initial contact to schedule an appointment occurred while I was on duty (during normal duty hours). Mark X if first box if yes, second box if no.
- 2.c. My initial contact was with the sales representative in response to an advertisement that said he or she would be on the installation during a specific time or at a specific place. Mark X in first box if yes, second box if no.
- 2.d. A superior in my chain of command advised or required me to meet with the sales representative. Mark X in first box if yes, second box if no.
- 2.e. The sales representative made initial contact with me via a government phone, fax, or computer.. Mark X in first box if yes, second box if no.
- 3. Time and place of appointment. a. The presentation and/or sale took place on the installation while I was on duty (during normal duty hours). Mark first box if yes, second box if no.
- 3.b. The presentation took place during a mandatory group meeting with other DoD personnel or as part of a military service sponsored financial education program. Mark first box if yes, second box if no.
- 3.c. The presentation took place in an unauthorized or restricted area. Mark X in first box if yes, second box if no.
- 3.d. The sales representative used an on-base facility as a showroom to display his or her product or services. (This does not include displays conducted by military family members in their on-base residence.) Mark X in first box if yes, second box if no.
- 4. Conduct during the interview. a. I was unduly pressured into buying the product or service. Mark X in first box if yes, second box if no.
- 4.b. I was not given the adequate facts, or was induced into making a purchase based on factors other than the merits of the product or service. Mark X in first box if yes, second box if no.
- 4.c. I was offered an incentive to meet with the sales representative, purchase the product or service, or drop a competing offer. Mark X in first box if yes, second box if no.
- 4.d. The sales representative is a full-time DoD employee of senior rank. Mark X in first box if yes, second box if no.
- 4.e. The sales representative implied that he or she is sponsored or endorsed by the military, the installation or my unit. (For example, the representative used an official or unofficial title such as "unit advisor" or "installation consultant".) Mark X in first box if yes, second box if no.
- 4.f. The sales representative had a military pay allotment or direct deposit form in his/her possession, or requested "myPay" account access or PIN number. Mark X in first box if yes, second box if no.
- 5. Your contact information. a. Name (last, first, middle initial).
- 5.b. Home telephone number (include area code).
- 5.c. Work telephone number (include area code).
- 5.d. E-mail address.
- 5.e. Unit address.
- Press this Reset button to clear the data from all fields.
Verify the edition before the first keystroke. The date on the form face should read not stated. If it does not, discard the file. Field numbering shifts between editions, and on a DD form the new layout reaches every receiving office in every service at once — there is no lag during which the old version is still normal somewhere.
Field-level questions go to the printed instructions, then to not stated, which is authoritative.
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.
Do not read across from a service number. DA numbering is Army-specific under an Army proponent; DD numbering is Department-wide under not stated or an equivalent Department office. The sequences are unrelated, so identical digits in each identify two different documents. Read the prefix, not the digits.
Three drivers of revision: directive reissue, altered collection requirements, updated statutory notice text. No notification accompanies any of them, so download fresh and confirm not stated rather than reusing an archived file.
Limits of this page: it distributes a published Department of Defense document and describes it. No legal advice, no procedural ruling, no statement about whether any submission will be accepted. Applicability, eligibility and procedure belong to not stated, to a servicing personnel office, or to the office named in not stated.
Questions and answers
- What is DD Form 2885?
- DD Form 2885, Personal Commercial Solicitation Evaluation, 20070613 draft
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?