---
kind: "section"
citation: "41 U.S.C. § 2106"
title: "41"
title_heading: "Public Contracts"
number: "2106"
heading: "Reporting information believed to constitute evidence of offense"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/41/2106"
units:
  - "Subtitle I — Federal Procurement Policy"
  - "Division B — Office of Federal Procurement Policy"
  - "Chapter 21 — Restrictions on Obtaining and Disclosing Certain Information"
---

# §2106. Reporting information believed to constitute evidence of offense


A person may not file a [protest](/usc/41/2101.md?p=6) against the award or proposed award of a [Federal agency procurement](/usc/41/2101.md?p=4) contract alleging a violation of section [2102](/usc/41/2102.md), [2103](/usc/41/2103.md), or [2104](/usc/41/2104.md) of this title, and the Comptroller General may not consider that allegation in deciding a [protest](/usc/41/2101.md?p=6), unless the person, no later than 14 days after the person first discovered the possible violation, reported to the [Federal agency](/usc/41/2101.md?p=3) responsible for the procurement the information that the person believed constitutes evidence of the offense.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 111–350, § 3, Jan. 4, 2011, 124 Stat. 3731.)

## Notes

| Historical and Revision Notes |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Revised<br>Section | Source (U.S. Code) | Source (Statutes at Large) |
| 2106 | 41:423(g). | Pub. L. 93–400, § 27(g), as added Pub. L. 100–679, § 6(a), Nov. 17, 1988, 102 Stat. 4063; Pub. L. 101–189, title VIII, § 814(a)–(d)(1), Nov. 29, 1989, 103 Stat. 1495; Pub. L. 101–510, title XIV, § 1484(l)(6), Nov. 5, 1990, 104 Stat. 1720; Pub. L. 102–25, title VII, § 705(i), Apr. 6, 1991, 105 Stat. 121; Pub. L. 103–355, title VIII, § 8301(e), Oct. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 3397; Pub. L. 104–106, title XLIII, § 4304(a), Feb. 10, 1996, 110 Stat. 663. |