Supplier coordination discussions are prohibited because GRA must not become a forum for coordinated supplier selection, vendor exclusion, procurement steering, bid strategy, or commercial preference-setting among participants.
GRA may involve technology providers, consultants, data firms, legal advisers, insurers, banks, infrastructure firms, universities, sponsors, and service providers. Participants must not use meetings to agree which suppliers should be used, excluded, favored, priced, bundled, or jointly approached.
Supplier coordination can create procurement risk, competition risk, conflict-of-interest risk, sponsor influence concerns, and vendor-validation overclaims.
GRA may discuss capability categories, readiness needs, interoperability principles, evidence requirements, governance standards, safe procurement boundaries, and public-good infrastructure needs. It may also maintain neutral records of capabilities where appropriate. But it must not endorse vendors, approve suppliers, coordinate procurement outcomes, or allow sponsors to influence supplier selection.
If a procurement or supplier decision is required, it belongs in a separate formal procurement, contracting, or institutional process conducted by the competent organization under its own rules.
GRA can identify needs. It does not pick winners.
