Others utilize print management systems to pre-approve their print suppliers. Gretchen Carroll, a commercial print buyer for United-Healthcare, reported, “Our company currently uses Printellect to quote, award and invoice projects. This allows us to better manage print dollars spent.”
One print buyer said that all printers have to go through an annual Request for Proposal (RFP) process. He shared, “Each year, we go through a substantial RFP process that awards the printing contract to one vendor as primary and two additional backup vendors. If any particular vendor wins the contract three years consecutively, they are automatically awarded two additional years. Because of this extensive RFP process, we very rarely need to go outside of the approved supplier list.”
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