Direct
Given to one supplier with no competition. Always publish procurementMethodRationale alongside this — a sole-source award with no stated reason is the most common finding in procurement audits.
- Code
- direct
- Full identifier (IRI)
- https://schema.govfresh.com/v1/procmethod/direct
- Part of
- Procurement method
- JSON file
- /v1/codelists/procurement-method.json
- Profile
- procurement
A document only ever uses the short code above (direct). The full identifier
is just its complete, globally unique form, so any system reading it knows exactly which term is meant.