Financial Regulations Waiver Request

1 Resource Centre

2 Details of Purchase

3 Reason for request of waiver: - select from the reasons below:

a) Where only a proprietary product will meet requirements, such as parts or components for equipment

b) Where a proprietary product is essential to provide compatibility with existing equipment and it would be uneconomic to purchase an alternative.

c) Where an agent, licensee or franchise holder has sole rights to supply a service or product and that only this product is suitable to meet the University's requirements.

d) Where there is only one suitably qualified specialist in the relevant field.

e) Where a particular service provider possess a special advantage due, for example, to earlier research exclusively carried out in pa particular area, or has exclusive data or information required to perform a particular task. In such circumstances, it must be demonstrably clear that another service provider could not perform a contract more economically.

f) Where due to urgency a competitive process cannot be undertaken in the time available. Factors giving rise to urgency must be serious, unforeseeable and, except in the most exceptional circumstances, not due to action or inaction on the part of the Resource Centre.

g) Other please detail:

4 How were the price, quality and service determined and what evidence is there that the supplier is competitive or offers value for money?