Section 27-1009. PROCUREMENT PLANNING

 

1009.1Agencies shall perform procurement planning and conduct market surveys to promote and provide for full and open competition with due regard to the nature of the goods and services to be acquired.

 

1009.2When full and open competition is not required by law, agencies shall perform procurement planning and conduct market surveys to obtain competition to the maximum extent practicable.

 

1009.3The Director shall prescribe procurement planning procedures for the following purposes:

 

(a)  To ensure that contracts are awarded after full and open competition with adequate procurement planning and availability of funds;

 

(b)  To ensure that procurement planning addresses the requirement to specify needs, develop specifications, and to solicit offers in a manner that promotes and provides for full and open competition;

 

(c)  To establish criteria and thresholds at which increasingly greater detail and formality in the procurement planning process is required in those cases in which a written procurement plan must be prepared;

 

(d)  To ensure that the principles of this section are applied, as appropriate, for all procurements whether or not a written plan is required;

 

(e)  To review and approve procurement plans and revisions to those plans; and

 

(f) To authorize the waiver of standard procurement planning formats in cases of emergency.

 

1009.4Procurement planning shall begin as soon as an agency need is identified and preferably well in advance of the fiscal year in which the contract award is necessary.  In developing the plan, the planner may form a team consisting of all those who will be responsible for significant aspects of the procurement, such as contracting, fiscal, legal, and technical personnel and, when applicable, the Department of Small and Local Business Development.

 

authority

The Chief Procurement Officer of the District of Columbia (CPO), pursuant to the authority set forth in sections 201, 204, 416, 1105 and 1106 of the Procurement Practices Reform Act of 2010, effective April 8, 2011 (D.C. Law 18-371; D.C. Official Code §§ 2-352.01, 2-352.04, 2-354.16, 2-361.05 and 2-361.06 (2011 Repl.)) (Act).

source

Final Rulemaking published at 35 DCR 1394 (February 26, 1988); as amended by Notice of Emergency and Proposed Rulemaking published at 58 DCR 9071 (September 27, 2011)[EXPIRED]; as amended by Notice of Final Rulemaking published at 58 DCR 11071, 11076 (December 23, 2011).

EditorNote

Notice of Final Rulemaking published at 58 DCR 11071 (December 23, 2011) repealed the pre-existing chapter 10 (District of Columbia Procurement System) and replaced it with a new chapter 10 which included new sections.