{"id":27403,"date":"2022-02-17T18:33:54","date_gmt":"2022-02-17T23:33:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adr.gov\/?page_id=27403"},"modified":"2022-02-17T18:34:11","modified_gmt":"2022-02-17T23:34:11","slug":"09-ialp","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/adr.gov\/guidance\/adrguide-home\/09-ialp\/","title":{"rendered":"Initiating the Agency-Level Protest"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);background-position: center center;background-repeat: no-repeat;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;margin-bottom: 0px;margin-top: 0px;border-width: 0px 0px 0px 0px;border-color:#eae9e9;border-style:solid;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last\" style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\" style=\"background-position:left top;background-repeat:no-repeat;-webkit-background-size:cover;-moz-background-size:cover;-o-background-size:cover;background-size:cover;padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;\"><style type=\"text\/css\"><\/style><div class=\"fusion-title title fusion-title-1 fusion-title-text fusion-title-size-two\" style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:31px;margin-left:0px;\"><h2 class=\"title-heading-left\" style=\"margin:0;\">Initiating the Agency-Level Protest<\/h2><span class=\"awb-title-spacer\"><\/span><div class=\"title-sep-container\"><div class=\"title-sep sep-double sep-solid\" style=\"border-color:#e0dede;\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><p>Protests to the contracting agency should be submitted to the person designated in the solicitation, which is usually the contracting officer.\u00a0 The solicitation should have information regarding how such protests are filed, and the FAR provides a standard “Service of Protest” clause at FAR 52.233-2, which states:<\/p>\n<p>As prescribed in\u00a0[FAR] 33.106, Contracting Officers complete and insert the following provision:<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>SERVICE OF PROTEST (SEPT 2006)<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>(a) Protests, as defined in section 33.101 of the Federal Acquisition Regulation, that are filed directly with an agency,and copies of any protests that are filed with the Government\u00a0Accountability Office (GAO), shall be served on the Contracting Officer (addressed as follows) by obtaining written and dated acknowledgment of\u00a0receipt from _______\u00a0[Contracting Officer\u00a0designate the official or location where a protest may be served on the Contracting Officer.]<\/p>\n<p>(b) The copy of any protest shall be received in the office designated above within one day of filing a protest with the GAO.<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":27194,"menu_order":8,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adr.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27403"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adr.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adr.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adr.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adr.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/adr.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27403\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adr.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adr.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}