Salient Features

(a)Specifications shall not include requirements, such as but not limited to restrictive dimensions, weights or materials, which unnecessarily restrict competition, and shall include only the essential physical characteristics and functions required to meet Guam’s minimum needs.

(b)Purchase descriptions shall not specify a product having features which are peculiar to the products of one manufacturer, producer or distributor unless it has been determined in writing by the Director of the using agency that those particular features are essential to its requirements and specifying the reason that similar products lacking those features would not meet minimum requirements for the item.

(c)Purchase descriptions shall describe the salient technical requirements or desired performance characteristics of supplies or services to be procured without including restrictions which do not significantly affect the technical requirements or performance characteristics.