subpart_subject: "Purpose, General Definitions, and Jurisdiction"
section_number: "21.13"
section_subject: "Nonstatutory protests."
cfr_reference: "4 CFR 21.13"
title_name: "Title 4"
title_subject: "Accounts"
revised_date: "Revised as of January 1, 2019"
publication_date: "As of January 1, 2019"
contains_description: "Containing a codification of documents of general applicability and future effect"
publication_info: "Published by the Office of the Federal Register National Archives and Records Administration as a Special Edition of the Federal Register"
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(a)GAO will consider protests concerning awards of subcontracts by or for a Federal agency, sales by a Federal agency, or procurements by agencies of the government other than Federal agencies as defined in § 21.0(c) if the agency involved has agreed in writing to have protests decided by GAO.
(b)The provisions of this part shall apply to nonstatutory protests except for:
(1)Section 21.8(d) and (e) pertaining to recommendations for the payment of costs; and
(2)Section 21.6 pertaining to the withholding of award and the suspension of contract performance pursuant to 31 U.S.C. 3553(c) and (d).