It's hard. Usually it's well-intentioned taxpayer protection legislation, passed after some disaster contract like the big dig, which actually reduces the abil

It's hard. Usually it's well-intentioned taxpayer protection legislation, passed after some disaster contract like the big dig, which actually reduces the ability to objectively evaluate the realistic and competent bids. Minor example: Town AV girl needed a new video camera. She knows what she's doing, researched, found the best model as far as pricepoint/features and a good place to buy it. We had to convene 2 subcommittee meetings and make her go way out of her way to find that model offered 2 other places so we had 3 bids, and document them, before just doing what she wanted to do anyways. Probably wasted an additional 10 hours of salary on the taxpayer dime. This is all by statute, it wasn't us being a bunch of bureaucratic morons.