In plain English
FAR 52.211-2, Availability of Defense Specifications, Standards, and Data Item Descriptions in the Acquisition Streamlining and Standardization Information System (ASSIST) website, is a solicitation provision prescribed at FAR 11.204(b), most recently dated Sep 2023. The complete official text is reproduced below, verbatim, from GSA's published FAR source files.
Its text contains no sentence requiring insertion into subcontracts; see the flowdown section below for what that does and does not mean.
Does it flow down to subcontracts?
No flowdown mandate found in the clause text
This is a solicitation provision — it applies to offerors when submitting an offer, not to contract performance, so subcontract flowdown is generally not the operative question for it.
Where it's prescribed
As prescribed in 11.204(b), insert the following provision:
Prescribing reference: FAR 11.204(b).
The official text, verbatim
As prescribed in 11.204(b), insert the following provision:
Availability of Defense Specifications, Standards, and Data Item Descriptions in the Acquisition Streamlining and Standardization Information System (ASSIST) website (Sep 2023)
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(a) Most unclassified Defense specifications and standards may be downloaded from the ASSIST website at https://assist.dla.mil.
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(b) Defense documents not available from ASSIST may be requested from the Defense Standardization Program Office by—
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(1) Using the ASSIST feedback module ( https://assist.dla.mil/feedback ); or
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(2) Contacting the Defense Standardization Program Office by telephone at 571–767–6888 or email at assisthelp@dla.mil.
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(End of provision)