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Department of Defense form 1811. Official designation: DD Form 1811, Pre-Award Survey of Contractor's or Carrier's Facilities and Equipment, June 1979.. Purpose: Pre-Award Survey of Contractor's/Carrier's Facilities and Equipment. Current edition not stated, status not stated.
Prescribing authority: not stated. Proponent: not stated. Unlike service-specific publications, DD forms carry Department-level authority and apply across the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, Space Force and Coast Guard when operating under Defense jurisdiction.
Users include uniformed members of any branch, DoD civilian employees, contractor personnel where authorized, and the administrative staff who process the completed record.
When the form is filed is a matter of not stated and local instruction. The description here covers the document itself and how to obtain a copy.
The download set covers PDF. Document length is 1 pages with about 81 entry fields.
The pdf is the primary distribution format. A fillable pdf accepts typed entries in defined field boxes and stores them in the file; a printable pdf is a flat image of the blank, meant for pen entry after printing. The distinction matters for legibility and for records that pass between offices.
Every listed format is free to download. Modern pdf software handles the pdf files, with the caveat that browser-embedded viewers sometimes ignore field properties that a desktop reader honours.
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.
The document is filled from the top down. Identification precedes substance, substance precedes certification. Fields lower on the page are commonly keyed to entries made above them.
Edition in use: not stated. Because DD forms are revised at Department level and distributed to all services at once, an obsolete printing may not match the fields an office expects. The date is printed on the form face.
Field-level instructions appear on the form itself and in not stated. The directive is the controlling text.
After completion, the copy goes to the office designated by not stated or by local procedure. Retention of a personal copy is ordinary practice and costs nothing.
Cross-referenced forms are found through the numbering system. The DD sequence is Department-level and unified, which means a number cited on the page identifies one document across the whole Department.
Where a DA form is cited alongside a DD form, the two belong to different systems: DA numbering is Army-specific and administered by an Army proponent, while DD numbering is Defense-wide under not stated or an equivalent Department office. Numbers do not translate between the systems.
Revision occurs when the prescribing directive is reissued, when the data collected changes, or when statutory notice language is amended. Verification of the edition date at download addresses all three.
This page distributes a published Department of Defense document and describes it. It is not a source of legal advice and makes no representation about acceptance of any completed form. Questions of applicability, eligibility or procedure belong to not stated, the servicing personnel office, or the office named 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?