Cheerio, I am telling you. I did this job, this rule wasn’t communicated to us.
If you are arguing that this was against the law, maybe it was. I am telling you what really goes on.
We were under clear directions to spend that money no matter what. If you didn’t and you messed up, your career would be hurt.
I hear ya - I also worked this issue but from the Contractor side.
I am looking at what you linked, but this was for contracting agents for the US Government and not those managing the operating budgets.
Purchasing Agents buy off contracts and directly from suppliers based on a requisition.
Operating budget managers create the requisitions.
As far as the Purchasing agent is concerned, the requisition is the justification needed for making the buy.