What is CDRL?
Contract Data Requirements List
A CDRL is the master list of every data product a contractor must deliver under a contract — status reports, plans, inspection records, property accounting, and more. Each line item points to a Data Item Description (DID) that dictates the format and content, and to a delivery schedule. Miss a CDRL and you have a contractual deficiency, not just a late email.
CDRLs are set at award and tracked for the life of the task order. On large contingency contracts a single task order can carry dozens of recurring CDRLs (e.g., a Monthly Status Report) plus event-driven ones.
In FORGEFORGE generates CDRL deliverables natively from operational data instead of hand-assembling them in Word and Excel.
Common questions
The CDRL is the list entry that obligates the deliverable and sets its schedule; the DID (Data Item Description) is the standard that defines the deliverable's format and content. A CDRL line references a DID.