Debriefing Rights and the CICA Automatic Stay Clock
GovConFeed – A losing bidder that misses its window to request a debriefing — or waits too long to file at GAO after one — can lose the single procedural lever that freezes contract performance while a protest is decided: the automatic stay under FAR 33.104. The stay is not automatic in the sense of "always happens." It runs on a deadline that starts ticking the moment award notice lands, governed by two FAR sections that contracting officers apply every day but that many offerors read for the first time only after they've already lost.
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