On emergency procurement, we also, after we did that audit I mentioned on Covid emergency procurement, which found widely varying expenses for what we had spent on vaccinations and tests, we made a set of recommendations to the agencies. When you do emergency procurement, you don't generally have to do an RFP or a competitive bid. That's the nature of what you can do in the emergency. But you still are expected to attend to price competitiveness and just make sure you're not getting just like price gouged. (28:53–28:59)
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