Survivor!

Our procurement and contracts department identified 14 local and six national printers and facilities management companies as candidates for outsourcing printing. Of these 20 candidates, 14 were asked to bid the printing work based on their ability to meet our needs. Those 14 companies were invited to send two representatives to a pre-bid meeting held at our corporate headquarters. At this meeting of 31 printing representatives, (for those keeping score, that's 14x2=28 plus an additional three from another company) all questions and concerns were addressed for all to hear. Each company received a bid package that included 16 actual job specifications, including samples and deadline specifications of the wide range of work required by GPU.