Connecting European suppliers with U.S. defence contracting

The compliance workspace for European suppliers working with U.S. defence contracts.

Turn complex FAR & DFARS requirements into confident business decisions.

Built for contract managers, legal, compliance and bid teams.

Clause Library
Example

DFARS 252.204-7012

ClauseBridge Verified

Safeguarding Covered Defense Information and Cyber Incident Reporting

Summary

Protects covered defense information and establishes cybersecurity and cyber incident reporting requirements.

Prime
Yes / Conditional
Subcontractors
Conditional
Flowdown
Yes / Conditional
Foreign suppliers
Relevant
The platform

FAR/DFARS translated into the reality of European suppliers

ClauseBridge is built for European companies working with U.S. Government and defense contracting requirements. The challenge is not finding the American clause text — it is answering what the requirement means for you: Does it apply to us? Do we need to accept it? Must we flow it down? What documentation does it require? ClauseBridge connects regulatory knowledge, company experience and project execution in one platform.

Clause Library

Understand the requirement — not just the clause.

ClauseBridge turns FAR and DFARS requirements into practical guidance for European suppliers. The official text remains the authoritative source — ClauseBridge gives you the structured understanding around it.

Go from regulatory text to practical understanding.

  • ClauseBridge Verified Summary
  • Practical Meaning in plain language
  • Applicability and flowdown requirements
  • Version history and regulatory context
  • European supplier perspective

AI Recognition

From clause list to structured review in minutes.

ClauseBridge recognizes FAR/DFARS clauses in customer documents and connects them to the relevant ClauseBridge guidance and your company's own knowledge — an accelerator inside a controlled compliance workflow.

Spend time assessing requirements — not finding them.

  • Reduce manual clause identification
  • Free contract and compliance resources
  • A consistent, repeatable review process
  • Lower risk of clauses being overlooked
  • Specialists assess — instead of extracting

Projects

Turn an RFQ into a controlled review process.

Projects is the operational workspace where your team handles actual customer requirements — moving from fragmented email, spreadsheets and individual assessments into one controlled workflow.

One workspace. One team. One consistent position.

  • Rapid clause recognition per project
  • Assign tasks and track review progress
  • Combine company positions with project assessments
  • Generate completed clause lists
  • Outputs ready for internal approval or customer response

Regulatory Updates

Know when the rules behind your positions change.

A regulatory update should not become another newsletter someone has to remember to interpret. ClauseBridge connects changes to the clauses and workflows where they actually matter.

Stay current without starting your analysis from scratch.

  • Surfaced on the relevant clause
  • Visible in the Clause Library dashboard
  • Flagged inside your active projects
  • Delivered through email notifications
  • Verified changes only — no noise

Company Positions

Turn previous decisions into institutional knowledge.

Companies repeatedly meet the same FAR/DFARS requirements. ClauseBridge preserves your previous assessments so knowledge never disappears into old spreadsheets, inboxes, archived RFQs — or individual employees.

Every review makes the next review better.

  • Previous company assessments and rationale
  • Accept / Not Accept / Not Applicable positions
  • Historical decisions and consistency across projects
  • Reuse in every future review
  • Institutional knowledge that stays in the company
One connected system

From regulation to company position

ClauseBridge is more than five disconnected features — it is a continuous knowledge cycle. Regulatory Updates keep everything current as your knowledge grows.

FAR / DFARS
Clause Library
AI Recognition
Projects
Company Positions
Understand
Review
Collaborate
Decide
Reuse
Stay current

Regulatory Updates continuously keep the knowledge current.

Why ClauseBridge

Built for the supplier side of U.S. contracting

Generic clause databases can help you find U.S. regulatory text. ClauseBridge is designed around the questions European subcontractors actually need to answer when responding to U.S. defense requirements.

  • What does this mean for us?
  • Does it apply to us?
  • Do we need to accept it?
  • Do we need to flow it down?
  • What do we need to document?
  • What did our company decide the last time we saw this requirement?

Build knowledge once. Reuse it across every project.

ClauseBridge combines regulatory guidance with your company's previous assessments — a structured FAR/DFARS knowledge base, decision history, reusable rationale and consistent working methods that become more useful with every review.

Turn your next FAR/DFARS review into company knowledge.

Why ClauseBridge

The problem we solve

FAR and DFARS are dense.

Thousands of clauses, layered agency supplements and frequent amendments — most European teams read them under time pressure, in a second language.

Positions live in inboxes and PDFs.

Standard offer language and past decisions are scattered across drafts, review threads and personal folders. Consistency is difficult to enforce.

Every bid re-does the same work.

Contract managers re-interpret the same clauses on every RFQ. Nothing accumulates. Institutional knowledge leaves with the person.

How it works

A daily workspace, not a database

  1. 01

    Read the clause in plain language.

    Every FAR and DFARS clause is paired with a practical summary and a plain-language explanation in English, Norwegian, Swedish, Danish or Finnish. The original text is always preserved.

  2. 02

    Apply your company position.

    Record whether your company accepts, negotiates or rejects a clause — with rationale, standard offer language and an owner. Positions are reviewed and versioned.

  3. 03

    Assess RFQs against your positions.

    Create a project for each RFQ, add the applicable clauses and track review status. Export a clean report for internal sign-off or your customer.

  4. 04

    Stay current on regulatory change.

    Amendments, class deviations and agency notices are filtered to the clauses your company has positions on — so you review what actually affects you.

Who it's for

Who is ClauseBridge for?

ClauseBridge brings FAR/DFARS requirements, company knowledge and project workflows together for the teams responsible for understanding, reviewing and managing U.S. contracting requirements — from a European supplier's perspective.

Contract Managers

Move from clause list to structured contract review.

A single U.S. RFQ can arrive with dozens of FAR/DFARS clauses that must be identified, assessed for relevance, coordinated internally, tracked and answered back to the customer — usually against a bid deadline. Previous decisions sit in old offers, mailboxes and personal notes.

Review requirements faster while keeping the company's position consistent.

Less manual coordination. More controlled contract reviews.

AI RecognitionProjectsCompany Positions
  • AI Recognition identifies FAR/DFARS clauses in incoming RFQs and contract documents
  • Projects turns the clause set into a structured review workspace with owners and status
  • Company Positions surfaces what the company decided last time, with the rationale
  • Tasks and open questions are assigned internally instead of chased by email
  • Completed clause lists can be prepared for internal approval or customer response
  • Clause Library and Regulatory Updates keep the underlying understanding current

Compliance

Turn contractual requirements into a consistent compliance process.

Compliance needs to know which contractual requirements actually matter, what actions they create internally, whether they must continue down the supply chain — and whether a regulatory change has quietly invalidated an established company position.

Create a repeatable approach to recurring FAR/DFARS requirements.

Consistency, traceability, repeatability and change awareness across the FAR/DFARS requirements the company actually meets.

Clause LibraryRegulatory UpdatesCompany Positions
  • Structured FAR/DFARS information with applicability guidance
  • Flowdown information held together with the requirement
  • Practical Meaning that translates the requirement into company terms
  • Company Positions and historical rationale as the reference point
  • Regulatory Updates linked to the relevant requirements
  • Consistent treatment of the same requirement across projects

Procurement & Supply Chain

Understand what must continue down the supply chain.

U.S. prime and subcontract requirements rarely stop with the European supplier. Procurement needs to know which requirements must be flowed down, to which suppliers, in what form — often reconstructed manually from a clause list late in the process.

Make flowdown requirements visible before they become a supply-chain problem.

ClauseBridge makes flowdown requirements visible and traceable; supplier obligations still require professional review before placement.

Flowdown informationProjectsCompany Positions
  • Flowdown requirements identified and surfaced directly with the clause
  • Project requirements connected to existing company knowledge
  • Consistent treatment of the same requirement across suppliers and projects
  • Less reliance on manually rebuilt clause lists per supplier package
  • Clear internal review points before supplier placement
  • Requirements presented in a form that is easier to communicate internally
One shared workspace

One requirement. Multiple stakeholders. One company position.

ClauseBridge is not four separate products. The same requirement can move between functions in whatever way suits your organisation — and what the company decides is captured once and reused.

Customer requirement
arrives with the RFQ or contract
Contracts
coordinates the review
Legal / Compliance
assess the relevant requirements
Procurement
handles applicable supplier flowdowns
Company position
is captured and reused

An illustration, not a fixed process — teams use the steps that apply to them.

Why European suppliers

A workspace shaped by how European teams actually work

A second-language problem.

FAR and DFARS are written for a U.S. audience. European teams read them at speed, in English, often without a domestic reference frame.

European context, U.S. requirements.

Data residency, export control and national security frameworks intersect with U.S. clauses. ClauseBridge helps translate the requirement without altering it.

Nordic-first, European-wide.

Native interface and practical summaries in Norwegian, Swedish, Danish and Finnish — with English as the working language across the platform.

FAR/DFARS translated into the reality of European suppliers

ClauseBridge is not another place to find U.S. clause text. Whatever the role, the working questions are the same:

  • What does this requirement mean for our company?
  • Is it relevant to us?
  • What did we decide previously?
  • Does it need to be flowed down?
  • Who internally needs to review it?
  • What do we need to communicate back to the customer?
Pricing

Built for B2B defence teams

Annual plans for Nordic and European suppliers. Subscribe by card in your local currency, or purchase through invoice/PO.

Founding Partner Program

Become a Founding Partner

ClauseBridge is currently inviting a limited number of Nordic and European defence suppliers to participate in our early access program. Free during the approved pilot period.

Apply for the Founding Partner Program
  • Early access to the full platform
  • Direct influence on the product roadmap
  • Dedicated onboarding
  • Priority support
  • Preferential commercial pricing after launch
  • Opportunity to shape the future of ClauseBridge
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Standard

Small suppliers and specialist companies

€3,590 / year
Up to 5 users · Up to 5 active Projects · 🇪🇺 Euro Area
  • FAR & DFARS Clause Library
  • Clause summaries
  • Practical Meaning
  • Applicability information
  • Flowdown information
  • Current clause/version information
  • Company Positions
  • Projects (up to 5 active)
  • Manual clause selection and import
  • Manual Company Position matching
  • Manual project clause review
  • PDF export
  • Multi-language support
  • Standard support
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Most Popular
Professional

Growing defence suppliers working regularly with U.S. Government or Prime Contractors

€6,390 / year
Up to 15 users · Unlimited active Projects · 🇪🇺 Euro Area
  • Everything in Standard
  • Unlimited active Projects
  • AI Clause Review
  • Automatic FAR/DFARS clause identification and Clause Library matching
  • Automatic Company Position matching
  • Regulatory Updates and regulatory change alerts
  • Clause Version Comparison
  • Regulatory Impact Analysis
  • Regulatory change detection inside Projects
  • Advanced review workflows
  • Excel export
  • CSV export
  • Priority support
  • Early access to new ClauseBridge functionality
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Enterprise

Large defence companies and multi-site organizations

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Unlimited users · Custom quotation
  • Everything in Professional
  • 30+ users
  • Multiple teams and business units where supported
  • Advanced organisation management
  • Enterprise onboarding
  • Dedicated implementation support
  • SLA options
  • SSO when available
  • API access when available
  • Custom integrations
  • Enterprise support

Prices exclude VAT. See the full pricing page for details.

ClauseBridge is initially offered and invoiced in NOK. Additional local currencies will be introduced as we expand across the Nordic and European markets.

Pilot program

Work with us on the first release.

We are onboarding a small group of European defence suppliers to shape ClauseBridge alongside their contract, legal and compliance teams. Pilot participants receive direct access to the product team and a dedicated implementation contact.

  • Priority access to the Clause Library, Company Positions and Projects modules.
  • A named contact for onboarding and workspace configuration.
  • Direct influence on the product roadmap for FAR/DFARS and Nordic-language coverage.
  • Preferred commercial terms for pilot participants converting to a subscription.
About ClauseBridge

A support tool, not a legal advisor

ClauseBridge is a professional workspace for European defence suppliers working with U.S. Government contracts. It helps contract managers, legal, compliance and bid teams understand, assess and document FAR and DFARS clauses — in a structured, traceable and repeatable way.

ClauseBridge is not a legal database and does not provide legal advice. Regulatory text is preserved verbatim in English; summaries and practical guidance are editorial and are reviewed by your team before use.

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