Under Single Source Selection, the Client selects a specific consultant and requests him to prepare technical and financial proposals, which are then negotiated. Since there is no competition, this method is acceptable only in exceptional cases and made on the basis of strong and convincing justifications where it offers clear advantages over the competition, because,-
(i) the assignment represents a natural or direct continuation of a previous one awarded competitively (the estimated cost of the continuation assignment is not more than 50% of the previous competitively awarded assignment), and the performance of the incumbent consultant has been satisfactory; or
(ii) a quick selection of the consultant is essential e.g., in emergency operations such as natural disasters and financial crisis; or
(iii) the contract is very small in value (i.e., less than rupees 5,00,000 for consulting firms or [xxxxx]54
(v) only one Consultant has the qualifications or has experience of exceptional worth to carry out the assignment.
for individual Consultants”); or