{"id":2891,"date":"2010-07-06T17:37:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-06T17:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/2010\/07\/06\/is-a-vendor-selection-process-fair-the-timing-of-one-step-says-a-lot\/"},"modified":"2023-07-06T08:11:25","modified_gmt":"2023-07-06T12:11:25","slug":"is-a-vendor-selection-process-fair-the-timing-of-one-step-says-a-lot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/blog\/is-a-vendor-selection-process-fair-the-timing-of-one-step-says-a-lot\/","title":{"rendered":"Is A Vendor Selection Process Fair?  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NLPA Learning also includes learning resources, including live and on-demand webinars, publications and reports, articles, templates, white papers, and much more!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I seemed to set off a barrage of comments on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":4045,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-procurement"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v19.4 (Yoast SEO v19.13) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Is A Vendor Selection Process Fair? 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