Purpose

• To assist procurement practitioners to document, justify and file decisions that use non-competitive procurement procedures as the basis for approval by authorising officials.
• Equally, the template may be used as input into internal and external ex-post reviews, and for training purposes.

Description

Establishing a template to document and file information related to non-competitive tender methods allows procurement officers to justify and document why the procuring authority has chosen a non-competitive method thereby ensuring consistency across procuring authorities and support internal and external ex-post evaluation.

The use of non-competitive procurement procedures may also be supported with clear guidelines or criteria (see criteria for selecting the appropriate procurement procedures), checklist to enhance integrity in the use of non-competitive procurement procedures, or guidelines for accelerated public procurement procedures.