[Eaker]

I left this out as it is common knowledge but since you listed it you may not know that it is.

Service, warranty, reliabilty (sic), the whole TCO.

The above is part of meeting spec.

Duh.

[King_Corey]

True, but it isn’t always LOWEST BIDDER, in your world it may be, but in private world it almost never is. So you are correct for commercial applications, but they happen to also have excellent equipment and have to meet the quality and TCO.

But you aren’t being helpful with the Lowest Bidder thing. This is about helping *this* person get what they need and how have you helped? You are being unhelpful and not supplying any useful information unless you though everyone knew it was “common knowledge”.

Try to contain your comments a bit to HELP this person and not knock down other please.