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Financial Management Oversight Seminar 2005

Page 153 - FTA Circular 4220.1E

Competition

All procurements will be conducted in a manner providing full and open competition

Unacceptable restrictions include...

  1. Unreasonable requirements placed on firms for them to quality to do business
  2. Unnecessary experience and excessive bonding requirements
  3. Non-competitive pricing practices between firms or between affiliated companies
  4. Non-competitive awards to any person or firm on retainer contracts
  5. Organizational conflicts of interest
  6. Specification of only a "brand name" product without its salient characteristics and not allowing "an equal" product to be offered
  7. Any arbitrary action in the procurement process


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