1. The following protest procedures have been adopted by SF Bay Ferry pursuant to
    Section IX.F of the SF Bay Ferry Administrative Code and Chapter 8 of the SF Bay Ferry
    Procurement and Contracting Procedures Manual.
  2. Right to File Protests
  3. A protest may be filed for contracts in excess of $250,000 only by an Interested Party, defined
    as an actual or prospective bidder or proposer whose direct economic interest could be affected
    by SF Bay Ferry’s conduct of the solicitation. Interested Parties do not include subcontractors or
    suppliers of an actual or prospective bidder/proposer, or individual firms that make up a Joint
    Venture, acting independently of the Joint Venture. All protests relative to RFPs or IFBs must
    be filed in accordance with the procedures and within the time periods stated in this chapter,
    unless otherwise specified in the solicitation.
    To the extent that any provision below conflicts or is otherwise inconsistent with a process or
    procedure set forth in an RFP or IFB, the provision in the RFP or IFB will prevail. To the extent
    that a provision of an RFP or IFB does not permit protests, that prohibition will prevail over

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