The Federal Acquisition Regulation shall include a provision encouraging the use of alternative dispute resolution techniques to provide informal, expeditious, and inexpensive procedures for an offeror to consider using before filing a protest, prior to the award of a contract, of the exclusion of the offeror from the competitive range (or otherwise from further consideration) for that contract.
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| Revised Section | Source (U.S. Code) | Source (Statutes at Large) |
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| 3706 | 41:253b(h). | June 30, 1949, ch. 288, title III, §303B(h), as added
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