Permitted only where the firm is the sole manufacturer, an emergency requires a named source, or standardisation with existing equipment demands it — with a Proprietary Article Certificate.

Any design that quietly assumes the pilot winner gets the contract is unimplementable. This is why we built three routes instead of one.

"A demand for goods should not be divided into small quantities to make piecemeal purchases to avoid the necessity of [tendering]."

This is the second, independent reason the pilot and the deployment must be two separate contracts buying two separate objects.

"…may be relaxed for Startups … subject to meeting of quality & technical specifications and making suitable provisions in the bidding document."

That single conditional turns a legal reading into a software feature: the platform inserts the clause automatically, so an officer cannot forget it and cannot delete it.