10 USC § 3306 - Encouragement of alternative dispute resolution

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identifier: "/us/usc/t10/s3306"
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title: "10 USC § 3306 - Encouragement of alternative dispute resolution"
title_number: 10
title_name: "ARMED FORCES"
section_number: "3306"
section_name: "Encouragement of alternative dispute resolution"
chapter_number: 241
chapter_name: "AWARDING OF CONTRACTS"
part_number: "V"
part_name: "ACQUISITION"
positive_law: true
currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2026-04-17"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
source_credit: "(Added and amended Pub. L. 116–283, div. A, title XVIII, § 1816(c)(2)(F), (8), Jan. 1, 2021, 134 Stat. 4182, 4185.)"
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# § 3306. Encouragement of alternative dispute resolution

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.

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**Source Credit**: (Added and amended Pub. L. 116–283, div. A, title XVIII, § 1816(c)(2)(F), (8), Jan. 1, 2021, 134 Stat. 4182, 4185.)

## Editorial Notes

### Codification

The text of subsec. (b)(8) of this title, which was transferred to this section and amended by , (2)(F), (8), was based on , , .

### Prior Provisions

A prior section 3306, , , related to promotion of officers in regular grade of colonel to grade of brigadier general, prior to repeal by , title VII, § 701, , , 2955, effective . See section 619 et seq. of this title.

### Amendments

2021—, transferred subsec. (b)(8) of  to this section and struck out par. (8) designation at beginning.

## Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section and amendment by  effective , with additional provisions for delayed implementation and applicability of existing law, see , set out as an Effective Date of 2021 Amendment note preceding .