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Procurement Planning
4.0 PROCUREMENT PLANNING
4.1 General. Planning is essential to managing the procurement function purchases, as well as future needs, to:
- 4.1.1 Find patterns of procurement actions that could be performed more efficiently or economically;
- 4.1.2 Maximize competition and competitive pricing among contracts and decrease the Agency's procurement costs;
- 4.1.3 Reduce Agency administrative costs;
- 4.1.4 Ensure that supplies and services are obtained without any need for re-procurement (i.e., resolving bid protests); and
- 4.1.5 Minimize errors that occur when there is inadequate lead time.
Consideration shall be given to storage, security, and handling requirements when planning the most appropriate purchasing actions.