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Excerpt from Professional Certification as Sole Source Bid Requirement in Federal Contraction: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Government Programs of the Committee on Small Business, House of Representatives, One Hundred Fourth Congress, First Session
The questions we would like addressed involve the practice of limiting the bid process in this manner. Are Federal agencies quali fied to differentiate between competing professional certification programs? What standards should be used to evaluate these pro grams, and who can the agencies rely on to develop them? Is a second tier sole source bid requirement the actual effect when professional certification stipulated by an agency is offered by only one organization? If there are alternatives to the stipulated program, doesn't the potential bidder have a right to have an im partial analysis of the alternatives in order to enter the bid proc ess. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
