# Sole Source / Discretionary Purchase Justification -- Template

**This is a starting draft, not legal advice.** Fill in the bracketed fields, adapt
the language to your agency's procurement code, and route it through your own
counsel or contracts office before submitting.

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**TO:** [State Procurement Officer / Department of Health Contracts Office]
**FROM:** [Name], [Title], [Laboratory / Agency]
**DATE:** [Date]
**SUBJECT:** Justification for Salus Agentic Managed Services & Infrastructure

## 1. Request & Purpose

This justification requests approval to enter into an agreement with **Salus
Agentic, Inc.** for cloud infrastructure hosting, instrument interfacing, and
technical support supporting the **Salus Agentic Platform**. The core platform
software license is provided at **$0 cost** under a perpetual public-good
license from **Global Hands, Inc.**, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. The requested
Annual Platform Contribution is **$[amount]/year**, covering hosting and
operations only.

## 2. Why This Doesn't Require a Full Competitive Bid

- **The software itself has no purchase price.** There is no proprietary
  license fee to competitively bid -- the only line item is the operational
  SLA for hosting and support.
- **[If applicable] The requested amount falls within this agency's
  discretionary or single-signer purchase threshold of $[your threshold].**
  Confirm your agency's actual threshold before relying on this.
- **The platform is purpose-built for public health laboratory operations**
  (accessioning, LOINC/SNOMED-coded test definitions, HL7/FHIR electronic lab
  reporting to the state feed), not a general-purpose COTS product with
  multiple functionally equivalent vendors.

## 3. What the Contribution Covers

- Dedicated cloud hosting (Snowflake data cloud tenant), compute, and storage
- 24/7 technical support and security patching
- Ongoing schema and interoperability updates (HL7/FHIR, LOINC, SNOMED CT)
- Standard platform maintenance and enhancements

## 4. Grant Alignment

[Confirm with your grants management office -- allowability depends on your
specific award terms.] Commonly allowable under CDC Epidemiology and
Laboratory Capacity (ELC) and Public Health Infrastructure Grant (PHIG)
capacity funds, as operational/infrastructure line items.

## 5. Cost Reasonableness

The requested fee is fixed and predictable -- it does not vary with usage
except by agreement, and there is no separate, uncapped cloud bill. [Insert
your own comparison to alternative solutions your agency has evaluated, if
any -- do not cite unverified savings figures.]

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*Provided by Salus Agentic as reference material. Salus Agentic, Inc. is not
a law firm and this template does not constitute legal advice.*