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Standard Bus Procurement Guidelines
technology, software, documentation, drawings, schematics, manuals, data and other information and
material provided by Offerors and the Contractor pursuant to the Contract which contain confidential
commercial or financial information, trade secrets or proprietary information as defined in or
pursuant to the (city state or local law) against disclosure of such information and material to third
parties except as permitted by the Contract. The Contractor shall be responsible for ensuring that
confidential commercial or financial information, trade secrets or proprietary information, with such
determinations to be made by the Procuring Agency in its sole discretion, bears appropriate notices
relating to its confidential character.
1.1.4.7 PROTESTS
Any protests by an interested party regarding this procurement shall be made in accordance with
(reference state or local law, ordinance and/or regulation).
After such administrative remedies have been exhausted, an interested party may file a protest with
the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) of the U.S. Department of Transportation pursuant to the
procedures provided in FTA C 4220.1D. Alleged violations of certain federal requirements provide a
separate complaint procedure. See, for example, Buy America Requirements, 49 CFR 661 (Section
661.15) and Participation by Disadvantaged Business Enterprise in Department of Transportation
Programs, 49 CFR 23 (Section 23.73).
Failure to comply with the above protest procedures will render a protest untimely and/or inadequate
and shall result in its rejection.
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