What is the FTA policy for awarding a bid if you only received one?
A. If you advertise a procurement and receive a single bid, you will need to determine why the vendors that were solicited failed to respond. You must contact them and document the file as to the reasons they give for not bidding. If the reasons given are within your control; for example, a restrictive specification or other restrictions in the solicitation such as unreasonable delivery time, then you have a sole source (non-competitive) situation that must be processed as a sole source, with the appropriate documentation and agency approvals. Of course if you find that your specification was restrictive, then you should revise it if possible to allow for competitive bids. If you feel that the specification must remain as it is (restrictive of competition) then you need to explain why this is necessary. However, if the reasons given by the no-bid vendors are beyond your control; for example, they had other business priorities and chose not to bid for business reasons, and then you may
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