Let's move on to another topic. As concerns the Advanced Contract Award Notifications, in order to enter into a contract without soliciting bids, there are four exceptions possible.
You list the exceptions in your report: pressing emergency; estimated contract value under specified dollar thresholds; not in the public interest to solicit bids—I would like you to explain to me when a bid solicitation would not serve the public interest—and only one supplier capable of performing the contract.
Your office is almost exclusively focused on the fourth exception in its report, but according to a report from Public Works and Government Services, only 7% of the Advanced Contract Award Notifications lead to the submission of a statement of capabilities by the business, and only half of those are accepted.