Federal · Title 41 — Public Contracts

41 U.S.C. § 2106: Reporting information believed to constitute evidence of offense

Civil

What this law says, in plain English

A person must report possible procurement contract violations to the Federal agency within 14 days of discovery, or they cannot file a protest or have the Comptroller General consider the allegation.

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A person may not file a protest against the award or proposed award of a Federal agency procurement contract alleging a violation of section 2102, 2103, or 2104 of this title, and the Comptroller General may not consider that allegation in deciding a protest, unless the person, no later than 14 days after the person first discovered the possible violation, reported to the Federal agency responsible for the procurement the information that the person believed constitutes evidence of the offense.

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