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D.C. Municipal Regulations (Last Updated: September 13, 2017) |
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Title 27. CONTRACTS AND PROCUREMENT |
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Chapter 27-1. GENERAL RULES OF THE CONTRACT APPEALS BOARD |
Section 27-103. BOARD OPERATIONS
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103.1The Board's office shall be open for the transaction of business from 9:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m., daily, except Saturdays, Sundays, and legal holidays.
103.2(a)Unless otherwise directed by an administrative judge, all paper pleadings, briefs, motions, and any other submissions to the Board shall be filed at the Board's office during business hours.
(b)Subject to Chapter 4, documents can be filed electronically at any time.
103.3Upon the receipt of a paper appeal or a protest, the Board shall stamp the date of filing next to the title of the case. Upon receipt of an electronic filing by a vendor designated in Rule 401, the vendor shall issue a confirmation showing the authorized date and time of filing. (See Rule 405). If a person filing requests a Board certification, a copy of the submission provided by the person shall be marked to show the time and date of the filing and it shall be initialed by the Board.
103.4The Board shall keep and maintain: logs listing all incoming pleadings, motions, and other communications to the Board, and all outgoing notices, correspondence, and Board actions; a monthly docket of current cases under the Board's jurisdiction; copies of decisions and final orders of the Board; and copies of the Board's rules.
103.5The log, case docket, and copies of decisions, final orders, and rules shall be available for inspection by the public at the Boards' office. Copies of Board decisions and final orders shall be available to the public at a reasonable cost. The Board shall provide access to electronic records during normal business hours.
103.6The outgoing log shall contain the date of mailing, or delivery, of all papers that are served or delivered.
103.7Cases before the Board shall be assigned consecutive numbers in the appropriate docket books in order of their filing, one sequence for appeals bearing the letter "D" as a prefix, and another sequence for protests bearing the letter "P" as a prefix.
103.8Upon request, the Board shall furnish to the public the names of its members, and the identity of the Board members comprising the panel to which a particular case has been assigned.
103.9The Board shall maintain a case docket, updated monthly, which provides the names of the appellant or protester, the name of the contracting agency, the case number, the date the case was filed with the Board, the name of the presiding judge, the date of any scheduled hearing on the merits of the case, and an identification of accelerated and small claims appeals.
103.10Active case files containing all pleadings and other records of the case, except as provided by Rule 104, shall be available for inspection by the public at the Board's office. However, the public may not remove any pleadings or other records from the case file nor remove the case file from the Board's office without the express written authorization of an administrative judge.