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I have been told by some municipal staff that what is most important for them, is not whether a competitive process of contract award was used, but whether there was sufficient integrity in the procurement method employed, to give one reasonable confidence that best value for money was obtained.
They go on to explain that this concern can be addressed in a number of ways, such as peer review; council approval of contracts (adopted by some but not all municipalities); the limitation of untendered contracts to specific types of transaction (the policy adopted by most municipalities in Canada); or approval by the purchasing manager or by senior management, such as the purchasing manager or the commissioner (or general manager) responsible for the purchasing department.
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