You have arrived looking for DD Form 1811. Before you download, confirm this is the right document: Pre-Award Survey of Contractor's/Carrier's Facilities and Equipment. Full title: DD Form 1811, Pre-Award Survey of Contractor's or Carrier's Facilities and Equipment, June 1979..
Then look at the edition date: not stated, publisher status not stated. After that, ask whether the form covers your situation. It almost certainly does regardless of your branch — DD forms run Department-wide rather than through a single service.
Once you know the form fits, find out when you file it. not stated sets the requirement, and not stated maintains the form itself. Your own command or agency adds local timing on top of that, so ask your administrative office if the deadline matters to you.
Last in this stage, choose your method: complete it on screen, or print the blank form and fill it out in pen. The sections below take each route step by step.
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.
Your first action is verification. Find the edition date on the form and match it against not stated. A mismatch means you are working from a superseded printing, and because DD forms change Department-wide rather than service by service, the office receiving it will notice.
For questions about a specific entry, check the form's own instructions, and if that does not settle it, open not stated. The directive controls where they differ.
Download the form
First, look at what you can download. The set covers PDF, the form runs 1 pages, and you will complete roughly 81 fields.
Take the pdf if you are unsure. Then check which kind you have: if the boxes highlight when you click them, you have a fillable pdf and can type straight into it, and your entries save with the file. If nothing highlights, you have a printable pdf — send it to a printer and use black ink.
Type when you can. Printed entries stay legible after the form is scanned, copied and forwarded, and handwriting often does not survive that trip. If you must write by hand, use block capitals and press firmly.
What the form asks for
- S. C. A. C.
- Fire protection. Fire contents rate, based on 80 percent co-insurance per $100.00 per year.
- Date (year/month/day).
- Name and address of firm, include zip code.
- Name of operating executive.
- Business telephone number, including area code.
- Home telephone number, including area code.
- Address of storage location, include zip code.
- Warehouse number.
- Area, floor, fire division, etc.
- Warehouse license number.
- Operating authority.
- Hour and days of week open for business.
- Pick up and delivery equipment. Number of trucks, line 1.
- Number of trucks, line 2.
- Number of trucks, line 3.
- Type of trucks, line 1.
- Type of trucks, line 2.
- Type of trucks, line 3.
- D. O. D. fire classification code.
- Weight limitation in pounds.
- Number of miles to nearest fire department.
- Nearest fire hydrant. Number of feet from building.
- Pounds of pressure.
Now that it is complete, send it where not stated or your local procedure says it goes. Before you do, make yourself a copy — scan it or save the file elsewhere. It costs you nothing and saves you the whole exercise if the original goes missing.
When DD Form 1811 references another form, search on the series and number. Because DD numbers are common to every military department, the number by itself identifies exactly one document.
Here is where people go wrong. They see a number in an instruction and download whichever form matches it. But DA and DD are separate systems — Army-specific in one case, Department-wide under not stated in the other — so check which series you were sent to before you take the file.
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 1811?
- DD Form 1811, Pre-Award Survey of Contractor's or Carrier's Facilities and Equipment, June 1979.
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?