What are the important contracting guidelines applicable to FMD and MAP?
Participants must ensure that all requirements under the FMD/MAP regulations are met. Specifically, participants must: • Conduct all contracting in an openly competitive manner. • Abide by the bidding thresholds in the program policy that are based upon the total contract value to any single vendor. Participants cannot break a single contract into parts to avoid competition or the bidding threshold (e.g., splitting a $45,000 contract into three $15,000 parts). • Obtain receipts for all out-of-pocket expenditures over $25 made by contractors. • Ensure that no employee or officer participates in the selection or award of a contract in which such employee or official, or the employee’s or officer’s family or partners has a financial interest. For more information, please refer to the “Contracting Standards and Procedures” policy notices for FMD (10/13/99) and MAP (03/13/96).
