PROTEST FILE.

SEC. 1015. PROTEST FILE. Section 2305 of title 10, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following new subsection: “(e) Protest File.— (1) If, in the case of a solicitation for a contract issued by, or an award or proposed award of a contract by, the head of an agency, a protest is filed pursuant to the procedures in subchapter V of chapter 35 of title 31 and an actual or prospective offeror so requests, a file of the protest shall be 108 STAT. 3257established by the procuring activity and reasonable access shall be provided to actual or prospective offerors. “(2) Information exempt from disclosure under section 552 of title 5 may be redacted in a file established pursuant to paragraph (1) unless an applicable protective order provides otherwise. “(3) Regulations implementing this subsection shall be consistent with the regulations regarding the preparation and submission of an agency’s protest file (the so-called ‘rule 4 file’) for protests to the General Services Board of Contract Appeals under section 111 of the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 (41 U.S.C. 759).”.