{"id":5827,"date":"2021-03-20T15:59:03","date_gmt":"2021-03-20T19:59:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/earlhamcollege.wpengine.com\/?page_id=5827"},"modified":"2023-06-28T16:24:46","modified_gmt":"2023-06-28T20:24:46","slug":"vendor-relations-faq","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/earlham.edu\/policies-handbooks\/vendor-relations-faq\/","title":{"rendered":"Vendor Relations FAQ"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Our procurement budget in 2000-01 was around $15 million. One percent of this is $150,000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The list of priorities in the current draft is our take on the issues of wide and deep concern among Earlham faculty, staff, and students. We have revised it in light of community comments and it remains open to revision.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There are two reasons to keep the list reasonably short. First, the longer the list, the more research must be done to implement the policy. Second, the longer the list, the more we limit our freedom to pick the vendor with the most suitable product or the lowest bid. Since the whole community pays a price for enlarging the list, we should only put items on the list which have wide community support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Finally, note that the priority list is not a list of all our values. It reflects our values in light of our resources.<\/p>\n\n\n\n