TITLE 48 - FEDERAL ACQUISITION REGULATIONS SYSTEM

CHAPTER 13 - DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

SUBCHAPTER E - GENERAL CONTRACTING REQUIREMENTS

PART 1333 - PROTESTS, DISPUTES, AND APPEALS

1333.101 - Definitions.

Agency protest, as used in this subpart, is one that may be filed with either the Contracting Officer or the Protest Decision Authority but not both.

Assistant General Counsel (AGC), as used in this subpart, means the Assistant General Counsel of the Department of Commerce for Finance and Litigation.

Protest Decision Authority, as used in this subpart, is the agency official above the level of the Contracting Officer who has been designated by the Procurement Executive to handle and issue the formal agency decision resolving the protest.

[64 FR 16652, Apr. 6, 1999]