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Department of Defense form 2885. Official designation: DD Form 2885, Personal Commercial Solicitation Evaluation, 20070613 draft. Purpose: Personal Commercial Solicitation Evaluation. Current edition not stated, status not stated.
Governing directive: not stated. Responsible office: not stated. The DD designation signals joint scope — all military departments, combatant commands and defense agencies draw on a single edition of the document.
The form reaches military personnel across the services, civilian employees of the Department, and the personnel and records specialists who receive it.
Timing of submission is fixed by not stated and by the implementing guidance of the submitting organization. What follows describes the blank document, not agency procedure.
Available formats: PDF. The form runs 1 pages and contains approximately 23 fillable fields.
Pdf serves as the base format. In the fillable variant, each box is an interactive field that holds typed text inside the document. In the flat printable variant, no fields exist — the page prints as a blank to be completed by hand. Typed entries survive transmission; handwriting does not always survive scanning.
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.
Completion runs in the order printed on the page: identifying data at the head, the body of the entry next, certification at the foot. Header data frequently governs what belongs in the fields below it.
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.
Guidance for specific entries sits on the form face and in not stated; the directive is authoritative where the two do not agree.
The completed document moves to the office named in not stated or in local guidance. A retained copy is conventional practice.
Associated forms are traced by number within the series. Because the DD sequence is common to all military departments, no service qualifier is needed to identify a referenced form.
Some procedures pair a DD form with a service form. The two numbering systems are separate — service forms answer to a service proponent, DD forms to not stated or another Department office — and a matching number in each system means nothing.
Editions change because the underlying directive changes, because collection requirements are revised, or because Privacy Act language is updated. Checking the edition date at the point of download is the practical response.
The material here is descriptive. Nothing on the page constitutes legal or procedural advice, and no statement here determines whether a submitted form will be accepted. Such questions go to not stated, a servicing administrative office, or the authority identified 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?