The state of NY last year decided to included just about all manufactures full line of MFP's except for 2 companies, and awarded with want the call P numbers. This stop all the bidding state agencies had to do prevised. Now each location can buy off the P numbers whatever they want, regardless if another vendors is slightly lower. It's now up to the salesmen in each area to sell there products and themselves.
The state of NY did this to stop all the time and paper work it takes to bid something out.
By the way I being selling office equipment for over 23 years.