Purchase of analytical data sets that include twenty-nine states for multiple years of Medicaid files from (federal agency) Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. This vendor was identiifed by the grant funding source.

This purchase is exempt from the usual selection processes in the procurement code because the procurement expenditures are for events or activities for which the use of specific vendors is mandated or identified by the sponsor of the event or activity, provided that the sponsor is providing a majority of the funding for the event or activity.