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(c) 

Acquisition Management System 

(AMS) establishes the policies, guiding 
principles, and internal procedures for 
the FAA’s acquisition system. 

(d) 

Adjudicative Process is an adminis-

trative adjudicatory process used to de-
cide protests and contract disputes 
where the parties have not achieved 
resolution through informal commu-
nication or the use of ADR. The Adju-
dicative Process is conducted by a Dis-
pute Resolution Officer (DRO) or Spe-
cial Master selected by the ODRA Di-
rector to preside over the case in ac-
cordance with Public Law 108–176, Sec-
tion 224, Codified at 49 U.S.C. 
40110(d)(4). 

(e) 

Administrator  means the Adminis-

trator of the Federal Aviation Admin-
istration. 

(f) 

Alternative Dispute Resolution 

(ADR) is the primary means of vol-
untary dispute resolution that is em-
ployed by the ODRA. See Appendix A 
of this part. 

(g) 

Compensated Neutral refers to an 

impartial third party chosen by the 
parties to act as a facilitator, medi-
ator, or arbitrator functioning to re-
solve the protest or contract dispute 
under the auspices of the ODRA. The 
parties pay equally for the services of a 
compensated neutral, unless otherwise 
agreed to by the parties. An ODRA 
DRO or neutral cannot be a com-
pensated neutral. 

(h) 

Contract Dispute, as used in this 

part, means a written request to the 
ODRA seeking, as a matter of right 
under an FAA contract subject to the 
AMS, the payment of money in a sum 
certain, the adjustment or interpreta-
tion of contract terms, or for other re-
lief arising under, relating to, or in-
volving an alleged breach of that con-
tract. A contract dispute does not re-
quire, as a prerequisite, the issuance of 
a Contracting Officer final decision. 
Contract disputes, for purposes of ADR 
only, may also involve contracts not 
subject to the AMS. 

(i) 

Counsel  refers to a Legal Rep-

resentative who is an attorney licensed 
by a State, the District of Columbia, or 
a territory of the United States to 
practice law or appear before the 
courts of that State or territory. 

(j) 

Contractor  is a party in contrac-

tual privity with the FAA and respon-

sible for performance of a contract’s 
requirements. 

(k) 

Discovery  is the procedure where-

by opposing parties in a protest or con-
tract dispute may, either voluntarily 
or to the extent ordered by the ODRA, 
obtain testimony from, or documents 
and information held by, other parties 
or non-parties. 

(l) 

Dispute Resolution Officer (DRO) is 

an attorney and member of the ODRA 
staff. The term DRO can include the 
Director of the ODRA. 

(m) 

Interested party, in the context of 

a bid protest, is one whose direct eco-
nomic interest has been or would be af-
fected by the award or failure to award 
an FAA contract. Proposed subcontrac-
tors are not ‘‘interested parties’’ with-
in this definition and are not eligible 
to submit protests to the ODRA. Sub-
contractors not in privity with the 
FAA are not interested parties in the 
context of a contract dispute. 

(n) 

Intervenor  is an interested party 

other than the protester whose partici-
pation in a protest is allowed by the 
ODRA. For a post-award protest, the 
awardee of the contract that is the sub-
ject of the protest will be allowed, upon 
timely request, to participate as an in-
tervenor in the protest. In such a pro-
test, no other interested parties will be 
allowed to participate as intervenors. 

(o) 

Legal Representative is an indi-

vidual(s) designated to act on behalf of 
a party in matters before the ODRA. 
Unless otherwise provided under 
§§ 17.15(c)(2), 17.27(a)(1), or 17.59(a)(6), a 
Notice of Appearance must be filed 
with the ODRA containing the name, 
address, telephone and facsimile (Fax) 
numbers of a party’s legal representa-
tive. 

(p) 

Neutral  refers to an impartial 

third party in the ADR process chosen 
by the parties to act as a facilitator, 
mediator, arbitrator, or otherwise to 
aid the parties in resolving a protest or 
contract dispute. A neutral can be a 
DRO or a person not an employee of 
the ODRA. 

(q) 

ODRA  is the FAA’s exclusive 

forum acting on behalf of the Adminis-
trator, pursuant to the statutory au-
thority granted by Public Law 108–176, 
Section 224, to provide dispute resolu-
tion services and to adjudicate matters 
within its jurisdiction. The ODRA may 

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