---
kind: "section"
citation: "48 C.F.R. § 333.103"
title: "48"
number: "333.103"
heading: "Protests to the agency."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/48/333.103"
---

# §333.103. Protests to the agency.

- (f)
  - (1) Protests to the contracting officer must be in writing. The contracting officer is authorized to make the determination, using the criteria in Federal Acquisition Regulation 33.104(b), to award a contract notwithstanding the protest after obtaining the concurrence of the contracting activity's protest control officer and consulting with the appropriate legal office.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 5 U.S.C. 301; 40 U.S.C. 121(c)(2).

### Source

Source: 80 FR 72151, Nov. 18, 2015, unless otherwise noted.