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- Joined
- Feb 23, 2014
- Location
- Foley, Alabama
I recently quoted a project for a local police department - minor modification to a search and rescue boat.
Got an email from my contact in the PD, and was told that due to the project cost, he'd normally have to get 3 bids, but he can't find anyone else in the metro area that does this sort of work, specifically for marine applications, and as such, I'd have to provide a 'sole source' letter.
Is this typical for the vendor to provide such? Seems like a conflict of interests.
The project is a fairly simple fabrication job. No intellectual property, no proprietary parts or tooling. On the one hand, I imagine this is just a technicality, because some paper pusher just needs a piece of paper to put in a file, but asking me to confirm a negative seems like it could be held against me in an audit down the road. Project is fairly small - total quote in the $2k range.
How does this usually get handled?
Got an email from my contact in the PD, and was told that due to the project cost, he'd normally have to get 3 bids, but he can't find anyone else in the metro area that does this sort of work, specifically for marine applications, and as such, I'd have to provide a 'sole source' letter.
Is this typical for the vendor to provide such? Seems like a conflict of interests.
The project is a fairly simple fabrication job. No intellectual property, no proprietary parts or tooling. On the one hand, I imagine this is just a technicality, because some paper pusher just needs a piece of paper to put in a file, but asking me to confirm a negative seems like it could be held against me in an audit down the road. Project is fairly small - total quote in the $2k range.
How does this usually get handled?