Start here if you have been told to submit DD Form 1716. First, know what you are filling: Contract Data Package Recommendation/Deficiency Report. The document is titled DD Form 1716, Contract Date Package Recommendation/Deficiency Report, December 1977.
Your second step is the edition, not stated, listed as not stated. Your third is scope. Because the number carries a DD prefix, you use the same blank as every other military department and defense agency; no service-specific version exists for you to hunt down.
After that, turn to timing. The requirement comes from not stated; the form is maintained by not stated. Local implementing instructions fill in the dates, so check with the office that will receive your copy.
Finally, decide how you will complete it. You can type into a fillable file or print a blank and write by hand, and the rest of this page walks you through both paths in order.
Begin at the top and move down. Enter your identifying data first, then the body of the form, then the signature block. The sequence is printed in that order because entries below frequently follow from entries above.
Before your first entry, look at the corner of the page and compare the printed date with not stated. If they do not match, stop and download again. Old copies circulate in shared drives for years, and a DD form is revised centrally for every service at once, so a superseded blank may not carry the fields your reviewer expects.
If a particular field puzzles you, read the instructions printed on the form first, then go to not stated. When the two disagree, follow the directive.
Download the form
Step one is picking the format. You have PDF to choose from, across 2 pages, with approximately 39 fields to complete.
Download the pdf first. After it opens, test a field with your cursor. Fillable means you type, tab to the next box, and save your work inside the file. Printable means the page is a flat blank, so print it and write your answers in ink.
Go with the typed route whenever the choice is yours. Consider what happens after you submit: the copy gets scanned, forwarded and filed, and each pass costs handwriting some legibility. Block letters help if you are stuck with a pen.
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.
With the form finished, route it to the office named in not stated or in your organization's own instruction. Keep a copy first. People rarely regret having one and frequently regret not having one.
Should you need a related form, look it up by its number. The DD sequence is Department-wide, which makes your search simple: no service qualifier, no branch-specific variant to track down.
Be careful when a procedure pairs this form with a service form. Read the prefix, not just the digits. Service forms answer to a service proponent, while DD forms answer to not stated or an equivalent Department office, and the two sequences were never aligned. Grabbing the wrong prefix gets you a form that has nothing to do with your task.
Do not archive this file and reuse it in a year. Forms are reissued as directives are revised, as data requirements shift, and as statutory notice text is amended. Your protection is simple: download fresh each time and confirm the edition date.
Finally, understand the limits of what you have read. This page distributes a published Department of Defense form and describes how to fill it out. It does not give legal or procedural advice, and it cannot promise any outcome for your particular case. For that, contact not stated, your administrative office, or 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?