So what is DD Form 1716? The short answer: a Defense Department document, officially DD Form 1716, Contract Date Package Recommendation/Deficiency Report, December 1977, used to Contract Data Package Recommendation/Deficiency Report. Anything else you need follows from that.
Is there a version specific to your service? No. A DD number is issued at Department level, which is the whole point of the prefix — every military department and defense agency works from one identical document. Looking for a branch variant wastes time you do not have.
Who decides this form exists? not stated owns it; not stated directs its use. If someone told you to file this, the authority traces back to those.
Which edition should you have? not stated, listed as not stated. A copy dated otherwise is a copy worth replacing.
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.
Download the form
What can you download? The available set is PDF. How big is the job? The form runs 2 pages with roughly 39 fields to complete.
Fillable or printable — which do you have? Click inside a box. If it accepts a cursor and typed text, the file is fillable and your entries save with it. If nothing happens, the pdf is flat, and the only way forward is printing it and writing on paper.
Should you type or write? Type, whenever the choice is yours. The reason is what happens after submission: the record gets copied and scanned, and every pass costs handwriting legibility that typed entries never lose.
Why will not the xfdl file open? Because it is not a pdf. Xfdl belongs to IBM Lotus Forms, long the Department's electronic form format, and it needs IBM Lotus Forms Viewer or an equivalent reader installed first.
What does any of this cost? Nothing. Every format listed is a free download. One practical note: save the file and open it in a desktop pdf reader, because browser previews often ignore interactive fields and lose what you typed.
Can you skip around the form? Better not to. The layout runs identification, then content, then certification, and entries near the bottom frequently take their meaning from what sits above them.
Why does the edition matter so much here? Because DD forms are revised centrally. When the Department reissues one, it reissues it for all branches simultaneously, and the field layout can shift. Compare the printed date against not stated before you type anything.
Where do you look up an unclear entry? The form face first, not stated second. And when the two disagree? not stated controls.
Where does the completed form go? To the office named in not stated or in your organization's local procedure. Should you keep a copy? Always — a scan or a saved file costs nothing and spares you the whole exercise if the original disappears.
What if DD Form 1716 points to another form? Search the series and number. Because the DD sequence is common to every military department, no branch qualifier is needed to land on the right file.
Why do some instructions cite both a DA and a DD form? Because the procedure touches both systems, not because the forms are related. Service forms answer to a service proponent; DD forms answer to not stated or another Department office. The sequences were never aligned.
Why do editions change at all? Three reasons, mostly: the prescribing directive gets reissued, the information collected changes, or the required notice language is amended. Are you notified when it happens? No. Which is why confirming not stated at the moment you download is worth the few seconds.
Will your completed form be accepted? That is not a question this page can answer. What you have here is a published Department of Defense document, a description of it and instructions for filling it out. Nothing on the page is legal advice, and nothing here determines what any office does with a submission. Where do the remaining questions go? To not stated, to your servicing personnel office, or to the office named 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?