I am a recently Warranted CO at a civilian Bureau only working in the states (not overseas) that deals with a lot of very low dollar requirements between the Micro Purchase Threshold (MPT) and $15k. I also have to run the purchase card program, but that's an entirely different headache.
I currently have an ~$11,000 tree removal project that does not count as unusual and compelling urgency.
The only capable vendor, according to the requiring office, is not in SAM.
My question is: for things under the $15k threshold, with no synopsizing or publicizing required, and with only o