To put my comment into context, I'm already forced to purchase a server from say Dell, off of their state website because they've already been put on price agre

To put my comment into context, I'm already forced to purchase a server from say Dell, off of their state website because they've already been put on price agreement, which means they've already bid on and won the right to sell to the state. There is no RFP, there is no other procurement process other than to order it off of price agreement. But having said that, even with companies on price agreement, I wasn't allowed to take anything else that they might offer me if it wasn't also being given to the general population. A quick story: I received a really nice backpack from HP when I bought one of their very first "convertible" tablets (this would have been around 2008-09). When I purchased it, the site made no mention of the "extras" and I had to tell my boss that I received these without being aware that I was going to get them.