In fact, women-owned businesses, like women consumers, emphasize vendor quality and reputation.

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In a recent study our firm, New Business Strategies, conducted on how companies purchase technology we found that Fortune 100 organizations place more importance on the quality of their vendor relationships than how well the product or service performs.

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Using reconciliation software from a commercial vendor, it is building a comparison engine to run its quality control business.

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Bottom line: If your vendor is quoting simplistically, is it going to provide experts doing quality work?

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While each partner brings high quality relationships with equipment suppliers, the joint venture will not be bound to any single vendor for new nuclear development, and will be able to make use of the best available technology for each element of the nuclear new-build programme.

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