Update to Statutory Citations and Internet Address in Bid Protest Regulations

What it does

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) is issuing a final rule to amend its Bid Protest Regulations, promulgated in accordance with the Competition in Contracting Act of 1984 (CICA), to make an administrative change by updating citations to the United States Code to reflect amendment and recodification of underlying statutory provisions. The revisions only reflect changes that update an internet address and that update statutory citations to reflect statutory changes, so GAO has determined that the rule is uncontroversial and therefore it is appropriate to issue a final rule.

The Government Accountability Office's summary, as published in the Federal Register.

What changed in the regulation

1 part of Title 4 of the Code of Federal Regulations:

4 CFR 21

Wording on eCFR: the day before it took effect and from the day it took effect (first part listed).

Compared with

The Government Accountability Office has published 1 final rule in 2026 so far, compared with 0 in all of 2025.

Counted by the Tribune from Federal Register records since Jan. 1, 2025.

What happens next and when

This rule is effective November 13, 2026.

The agency's dates, word for word.

Check it yourself

• The document in the Federal Register
• Title 4 on eCFR

The record as published

Source: the Federal Register (public domain). The document in the Federal Register