“Purchasing is broken up. There is one step
and then a wait, another step and then a wait,
because we don’t have a process.”
- Bennie, P-Card Holder
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Government purchasing is complex because rules of
fairness and auditing separate the purchaser from the
person wanting the items—-which also occurs in nursing
homes and other places. Our permissively reusable code
can be found at https://github.com/18F/C2.