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FAR and DFARS › FAR Part 52: Solicitation Provisions and Contract Clauses › Subpart 52.2

FAR 52.233-2 Service of Protest.

The codified text (eCFR, as of 2026-10-02). Under the Revolutionary FAR Overhaul ↗, agencies follow class deviations with new text for many parts while the formal rules go through the Federal Register: check the solicitation and your contract's clauses, which rule.

In plain English

This provision tells contractors how to serve protest documents on the Contracting Officer. If a protest is filed directly with an agency, or a copy is filed with the GAO, the contractor must deliver it to the Contracting Officer at the designated location and get a written, dated acknowledgment of receipt. For GAO protests, the copy must reach that office within one day of filing with the GAO.

Applies to: Contractors filing protests directly with an agency or with the GAO

What it requires

  • Serve protests filed directly with an agency on the Contracting Officer at the designated location
  • Serve copies of protests filed with the GAO on the Contracting Officer at the designated location
  • Obtain written and dated acknowledgment of receipt from the designated official or location
  • Ensure the copy of a GAO protest is received in the designated office within one day of filing with the GAO

Key terms: Protest · Contracting Officer · Government Accountability Office (GAO) · Service of Protest · Written and dated acknowledgment of receipt

Written by AI from this section's text. A guide, not legal advice: the text below rules.

The text

As prescribed in 33.106(a), insert the following provision:

Service of Protest (SEP 2006)

(a) Protests, as defined in section 33.101 of the Federal Acquisition Regulation, that are filed directly with an agency, and copies of any protests that are filed with the Government Accountability Office (GAO), shall be served on the Contracting Officer (addressed as follows) by obtaining written and dated acknowledgment of receipt from ____. [Contracting Officer designate the official or location where a protest may be served on the Contracting Officer.]

(b) The copy of any protest shall be received in the office designated above within one day of filing a protest with the GAO.

(End of provision)

Sections it refers to

  • 33.106 Solicitation provision and contract clause.
  • 33.101 Definitions.

Sections that refer to it

  • 33.106 Solicitation provision and contract clause.

← 52.233-1 Disputes. · 52.233-3 Protest After Award. →

Rule changes for FAR Part 52

Source: eCFR, 48 CFR chapters 1 and 2 (GPO GovInfo bulk data) ↗. Plain words for the terms: glossary.

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