Administracja i zamówienia · 24.06.1996

Board of Contract Appeals; Procedure Rules

This document announces the intention of the General Services Administration Board of Contract Appeals (the Board) to issue proposed rules to implement section 5101 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1996 (Pub. L. 104-106) (the Act). Section 5101 of the Act, which becomes effective August 8, 1996, eliminates the Board's jurisdiction to hear and decide bid protests regarding procurements of automatic data processing (ADP) equipment and services. The proposed amendments to the Board's rules of procedure, when final, will implement section 5101 by eliminating all references to bid protests in those rules. The proposed rules also described the techniques intended to shorten and simplify, when appropriate, the formal proceedings normally used by the Board to resolve contract disputes, and support the use of alternative dispute resolution (ADR) in appropriate circumstances by providing that the Board will make a Board Neutral available for an ADR proceeding either before or after the issuance of a decision by a contracting officer of any Government agency if a joint written request is submitted to the Board by the parties. The Board intends to issue final, revised