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A procurement for a security service is to be awarded on a lowest price technically acceptable basis. What does NIST advise?

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1. Use it, since technical acceptability already covers all of the security requirements that were written into the tender specification
2. Use it only where more than three bidders respond, since competition on that scale drives the quality of the bids up without further intervention
3. Use it only for products and never for services, since a product's security can be judged from its own written specification alone in almost every case
4. Avoid that source selection process when purchasing technology products or services, because security is a critical factor

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