Title 10, Armed ForcesRelease 119-102
§3306 Encouragement of Alternative Dispute Resolution
Title 10 › Subtitle A — General Military Law › PART V — ACQUISITION › Subpart C — Contracting Methods and Contract Types › CHAPTER 241 — AWARDING OF CONTRACTS › § 3306
Summary
Require the Federal Acquisition Regulation to encourage bidders to use quick, informal, low-cost ways to resolve disputes before protesting being dropped from contract consideration.
Full Legal Text
Title 10, §3306
Armed Forces, Source: USLM XML via OLRC
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.
Legislative History
Notes & Related Subsidiaries
Editorial Notes
Codification The text of subsec. (b)(8) of this title, which was transferred to this section and amended by Pub. L. 116–283, § 1816(c)(1), (2)(F), (8), was based on Pub. L. 104–106, div. D, title XLI, § 4104(a)(3), Feb. 10, 1996, 110 Stat. 644.
Prior Provisions
A prior section 3306, act Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 190, related to promotion of officers in regular grade of colonel to grade of brigadier general, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 96–513, title II, § 204, title VII, § 701, Dec. 12, 1980, 94 Stat. 2880, 2955, effective Sept. 15, 1981. See section 619 et seq. of this title.
Amendments
2021—Pub. L. 116–283, § 1816(c)(8), transferred subsec. (b)(8) of section 2305 of this title to this section and struck out par. (8) designation at beginning.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Effective Date
Section and amendment by Pub. L. 116–283 effective Jan. 1, 2022, with additional provisions for delayed implementation and applicability of existing law, see section 1801(d) of Pub. L. 116–283, set out as an
Effective Date
of 2021 Amendment note preceding section 3001 of this title.
Reference
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Citation
10 U.S.C. § 3306
Title 10, Armed Forces
Last Updated
Aug 21, 2026
Release point: 119-102