Rules for procurement

Almost all the government entities will have their own rules for procurement. But in general public procurement across the globe follow few basic pricilples:

Transparancy, Equal opportunity, value for money and money to be spent only for the purpose it is intended for.

In case of only one response, generally all government entities will go for re-tender. But even after re-tendering there is only one response then depending upon the value of item to be purchased, price quoted by the bidder and urgency of the procurement, they may award the contract to the single bidder.

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