Non-competitive/Sole Source Procurement: Seven Questions

This three-piece resource including a briefing paper Non-competitive/Sole Source Procurement: Seven Questions, Sole Source Procurement Infographic and web page explores current sole source procurement practices among the states. Sole source procurements are exemptions and waivers of competition where competition is not available or a reasonable alternative source does not exist. The Sole Source Procurement web page provides additional information broken down by state, such as sample justification forms, definitions, state descriptions and criteria for allowing them, and URLs to sole source processes documented in policy and available online.