To help avoid delays processing your requisition, please take extra care to ensure your justification clearly addresses why competition is not feasible, what makes the supplier uniquely qualified, and what steps you took in determining the sole source.
Please refer to the Sole Source Job aid (link at the top of the form) for examples and more detail. Sole source should be a justification for an exception to competition, rather than a default option.
A strong justification should be detailed, specific, and directly tied to the project’s technical, functional, or programmatic needs. Please provide distinct responses to all the questions on the sole source form and avoid copy and pasting the same response.
Visit the Sole Source page for guidance.
Thank you for your attention to this and for helping us maintain compliance and efficiency.