{"id":27194,"date":"2022-02-16T15:20:06","date_gmt":"2022-02-16T20:20:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adr.gov\/?page_id=27194"},"modified":"2022-02-19T08:34:56","modified_gmt":"2022-02-19T13:34:56","slug":"adrguide-home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/adr.gov\/guidance\/adrguide-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Guidance"},"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;\">Guidance<\/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>Welcome to the Second Edition of the Electronic Guide to Federal Procurement Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR).<\/p>\n<p>In 1999, the\u00a0<a href=\"\/about-adr\">Interagency Alternative Dispute Resolution Working Group<\/a>‘s Contracts and Procurement Section published the first edition of this guide. Brigadier General Frank J. Anderson, USAF,\u00a0then the Chair of the section, observed that ADR “is quickly and\u00a0quietly\u00a0gaining\u00a0momentum as the conflict management tool of choice for resolving contractual disagreements.” \u00a0The momentum continued to build\u00a0through the years. Today, as the 34 chapters of this revision show, ADR is firmly embedded as a normal part of protest and dispute resolution processes for federal procurement matters. \u00a0It is part of the acquisition policies at nearly every agency, and is incorporated into the rules or regulations governing the practice before protest and dispute forums. \u00a0Many agencies also have standing programs to encourage and facilitate using ADR at the lowest possible level of conflict.<\/p>\n<p>This guide is designed to help the public and Government employees quickly access procurement ADR information.\u00a0 It includes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/adr.gov\/guidance\/adrguide-home\/part1\/\">Part I<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0gives readers definitions, legal authorities, and an understanding of why ADR has become so prevalent in American business.<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/adr.gov\/guidance\/adrguide-home\/part2\/\">Part II\u00a0<\/a><\/strong>focuses on proactive techniques to adopt during acquisition planning stages in order to manage conflict and, hopefully, turn conflicts into opportunities to creatively address problems and increase opportunities for mutual gain.<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/adr.gov\/guidance\/adrguide-home\/part3\/\">Part III<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0explores the use of ADR in the context of bid protests and other matters relating to the award of contracts.<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/adr.gov\/guidance\/adrguide-home\/part4\/\">Part IV<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0relates to solving problems during contract administration either at the claim stage or when before a board or court.<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/adr.gov\/guidance\/adrguide-home\/part-v-adr-particulars\/\">Part V<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0explores narrow ADR concepts in greater detail. \u00a0Most of these concepts apply to both protests and disputes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Printable materials\u00a0and forms are grouped in the supplemental\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/adr.gov\/guidance\/adrguide-home\/library\/\">Library<\/a>, and some of the most informative websites are collected in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/adr.gov\/guidance\/adrguide-home\/useful-links\/\">Useful Links<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>LEARN MORE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/adr.gov\/guidance\/adrguide-home\/contributors2d\/\">Contributors to this Guide<\/a><\/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":26530,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adr.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27194"}],"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=27194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/adr.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27194\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adr.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adr.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}