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The Rationale for Adding the Changes

Narek Saribekyan

BSA 425

Professor Stephanie Benoit-Kurtz

3/15/2021

Week 3

The Rationale for Adding the Changes

The three changes that I have incorporated into the project plan primarily focus on the vendor selection criteria for database management systems. These changes include price, quality, and the vendor’s reputation. I believe that price is important because the goal of selecting a vendor should always be to get the optimal value of the product for the lowest price or cost possible. Additionally, it is important to be concerned about vendors who submit estimates that are far below others. In this respect, one may receive less than acceptable quality for the same product. Therefore, it is important to communicate the prospects to the full extent of the company’s needs so as to receive an accurate bid.

Apart from price, I have also considered quality of the vendor’s product. To this end, the price does not matter if the product or service is of poor quality. Whenever necessary, it is important to ask the vendors to see the samples of the database product that they are selling to customers. This means that the vendor should be ready to provide substantial reasons to believe that the product that they are offering is not defective and demonstrate it to the target customers. Moreover, if the vendor fails to explain the basic steps of operating the system, then it is important to rethink the organization’s decisions before selecting them. Finally, the vendor’s integrity and reputation are important for database selection. This is because databases contain classified organizational data, which should only be managed by reputable parties. As such, it is important to conduct a due diligence on their ethical backgrounds and previous lawsuits that might have potentially affected their integrity or reputation. In light of the above, one should undertake a thorough background check, including searching news and complaints related to the vendor in order to identify possible issues that might affect the contract.