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II. Competition Advocate Role

The CA is responsible for promoting competition in the Postal Service. The CA must maintain a program that includes identifying, tracking, and following up on actions to remove barriers to competition. The CA is responsible for the following:

  1. Challenging barriers to the competition of Postal Service requirements.
  2. Assisting purchase/supply chain management (SCM) teams in the development of effective SCM solutions and obtaining best value.
  3. Providing independent advice to contracting officers (COs) about proposed noncompetitive purchases of $1M or greater.
  4. Producing an annual report on noncompetitive purchasing activity.

The CA is appointed by the vice president, Supply Management (SM) (see Appendix A) and the CA’s role and responsibilities are defined in 2-10, Determine Extent of Competition, of the Postal Service’s Supplying Principles and Practices (SPs and Ps), and Management Instruction (MI) SP S2-2015-1, Noncompetitive Purchases.

The complete SPs and Ps can be found internally on the USPS® intranet site: http://blue.usps.gov/policy/ and externally at: http://about.usps.com/manuals/spp/html/welcome.htm.

The MI is available internally on the Postal Service intranet site: http://blue.usps.gov/cpim/ftp/manage/sps2151.pdf. See Appendix E for a copy of the MI.

 




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