Exclude a source from a competition to establish or sustain alternative supply
- Objective
- Bring a prototype into use
- Family / instrument
- Acquisition, transition and contract finance · Competitive supply-base shaping
- Statute
- Authority holder
- Head of the procuring agency
- Executor · routing lead
- Authorized component contracting, agreements, or personnel office; assignment is illustrative
Recorded eligibility gates (excerpt)
Make one of the specific determinations in §3203(a)(1); the determination may not cover a class of purchases or contracts.
Use competitive procedures among the remaining eligible sources.All requirements & limits
Recorded funding condition (excerpt)
Applicable acquisition appropriations; no separate fund created.All funding conditions
What this does not authorize / limits
This is not sole-source contracting or a blanket exclusion power; §3204(e)(1) justification-and-approval requirements are inapplicable only as stated in §3203(c).
Implementation caution: Statutory-source review only. A current implementing program, open intake, available funds and individual delegation were not verified.
Public evidence describes the institution and instrument; it is not approval of an individual transaction. Express statutory pathway identified in the USC scrub. Current implementation, public intake, appropriations, available balances, and transaction-specific delegations were not independently verified.
Actor sources
Independent public-source guide; not an official U.S. government website. Record reviewed 2026-10-05. Read the full record for currentness, coordination and all source notes.