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The answer can be found in the Bag & Tag section of the Admin manual, section 5.5:
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For your convenience, the team may bag their bumpers separately from their robot. However, the separately-bagged bumpers must be sealed with their own tag, and that tag number must be entered on the Robot Lock-Up Form.
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So since they can be in a separate bag, you have the answer that they must be bagged.
However, because bumpers can weigh at most 20 pounds per [R27], you could make them part of your weight allowance [R26] that can be brought in outside your bag. If you elect to have two sets of bumpers, red and blue, you would have to make both of them fit within the 30 pound allowance.