[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 48, Volume 1]
[Revised as of October 1, 2002]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 48CFR15.608]

[Page 291]
 
            TITLE 48--FEDERAL ACQUISITION REGULATIONS SYSTEM
 
                CHAPTER 1--FEDERAL ACQUISITION REGULATION
 
PART 15--CONTRACTING BY NEGOTIATION--Table of Contents
 
                   Subpart 15.6--Unsolicited Proposals
 
Sec. 15.608  Prohibitions.

    (a) Government personnel shall not use any data, concept, idea, or 
other part of an unsolicited proposal as the basis, or part of the 
basis, for a solicitation or in negotiations with any other firm unless 
the offeror is notified of and agrees to the intended use. However, this 
prohibition does not preclude using any data, concept, or idea in the 
proposal that also is available from another source without restriction.
    (b) Government personnel shall not disclose restrictively marked 
information (see 3.104 and 15.609) included in an unsolicited proposal. 
The disclosure of such information concerning trade secrets, processes, 
operations, style of work, apparatus, and other matters, except as 
authorized by law, may result in criminal penalties under 18 U.S.C. 
1905.