31 U.S.C. § 3551
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United States · Title 31 — MONEY AND FINANCE · Status: effective
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- 31 U.S.C. § 3551, Definitions, United States, version 1 as recorded 2026-07-09, yourstate.us, https://yourstate.us/provision/467685
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In this subchapter:
The term “protest” means a written objection by an interested party to any of the following:
The term “interested party”—
with respect to a public-private competition conducted under Office of Management and Budget Circular A–76 with respect to the performance of an activity or function of a Federal agency, or a decision to convert a function performed by Federal employees to private sector performance without a competition under Office of Management and Budget Circular A–76, includes—
Legislative history
The public laws that enacted or amended this section. Tallies are for the whole bill as it passed each chamber — often an omnibus covering far more than this provision — not a vote on this section alone.
- Deficit Reduction Act of 1984House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1986House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- To revise, codify, and enact without substantive change certain general and permanent laws, related to transportation, as subtitles II, III, and V-X of title 49, United States Code, "Transportation", and to make other technical improvements in the Code.House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- Federal Acquisition Streamlining Act of 1994House: 425–0Senate: no recorded tally
- National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1996
- To revise, codify, and enact without substantive change certain general and permanent laws, related to public buildings, property, and works, as title 40, United States Code, "Public Buildings, Property, and Works".House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- Ronald W. Reagan National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2005House: 359–14Senate: no recorded tally
- Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2008
- National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008
- National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2010