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Unlike traditional software engineering that aims to satisfy the requirements of a single system, domain-specific component-based engineering focuses on providing reusable solution for a family of systems. To be adopted in a safety-critical environment it must handle quality requirements and offer mechanisms to ensure the reliability level of the components and the system. For this purpose, the contract-based approach is a lightweight formal method for designing and specifying systems requirements, it can be introduced in an early stage during the design phase. In this paper, we present a multilevel contract model and a domain-specific modeling language that aims to address reliability and quality issues for component oriented systems by expressing and specifying a set of its properties and constraints.