It was indeed always political, sales, and contractual hurdles (some their company's fault, some our company's fault) I believe if we could somehow interact sol

It was indeed always political, sales, and contractual hurdles (some their company's fault, some our company's fault) I believe if we could somehow interact solely and directly with a vendor's engineers, the whole process would take a few days to a week, max, for most vendors. But sadly that doesn't seem to be how enterprise B2B operates in my domain.