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"...just issue a spec that requires a hood ornament with three lines trisecting a circle, and see whichever car company meets the spec at the best price-- surpr

• rbanffy 16y ago
  If you don't have a good enough reason to demand the ornament, you will still have to explain why you needed it in court. Here in Brazil I have seen a couple RFPs shot down because they were tailored to a certain supplier (things like "nine internal bays for mass-storage devices" or "PowerPC 401-based on-board RAID subsystem"). In one instance, the guys with 10-bays and i960 CPUs on RAID cards were not happy and the poor sap who was ordered to write the spec had the distinguished annoyance of both explaining it to a judge and having to redo it, adding a year to the project. I can't imagine you getting away with that.