§ 10-3-4. Tier Three, non-required source of supply transactions exceeding five thousand dollars ($5,000.00).

In Tier Three, non-required source of supply transactions exceeding five thousand dollars ($5,000.00), Horry County needs to determine price reasonableness and satisfy the standard of maximum practicable competition. These two (2) requirements may be satisfied by using the following procedures:

A.

When Horry County seeks to satisfy a procurement need by issuing a delivery/task order against a Tier Three contract which, when awarded, satisfied the standards of price reasonableness and maximum practicable competition, Horry County may issue an order against such a contract without having the order subject to price reasonableness or maximum practicable competition standards.

B.

When Horry County seeks to satisfy a procurement need by issuing a delivery/task order against a Tier Three contract which, when awarded, did not satisfy the standards of price reasonableness and maximum practicable competition, Horry County may not issue an order against such a contract without first satisfying price reasonableness and maximum practicable competition standards as those standards apply to the order.

1.

In the satisfaction of the price reasonableness standard, Horry County may use any of the price reasonableness methods set forth in Chapter Seven of this regulation.

2.

In the satisfaction of maximum practicable competition, Horry County may solicit and compare three (3) written quotations from sources available under Tier Three that can satisfy the purchasing agency's need. The actual number and nature of the quotations required to satisfy the requirement of maximum practicable competition may be less, if exigent circumstances are present. Additionally, Horry County may use the method of publishing the opportunity in a sufficient time that is usually applicable to Tier Four procurements, as set forth in Chapter Eleven, to satisfy the requirement of maximum practicable competition in a procurement involving Tier Three orders.