Should verbal quotations be received, name and address of company and amount quoted shall be part of written documentation. The agency shall document the conditions and circumstances used to determine the procurement method. All state agencies must comply with this requirement. Advertisements for solicitations appear no less than 10 calendar days prior to the opening. In addition, these legal notices may appear in other media sources selected by State Purchasing and state agencies, such as the Florida Administrative Weekly , trade journals, local newspapers, and minority newspapers.
Responses are due at a specified time and place and the response opening is public.
Competition - The Heart of State Purchasing Economic, effective, efficient and diverse procurement is accomplished through competition. This is the most popular acquisition method used in formal government procurement, and is usually utilized in the acquisition of commodities. Each proposal is evaluated against a specified set of evaluation criteria. The RFP responses are scored using a point system with points given each proposal by an evaluation team. This method is more often utilized in the acquisition of services.