Corporate Partnering
By Jim Detrick
"Corporate Partnering" is a program instituted for Diocese across the
country to participate in OEM pricing. We at the Archdiocese of Miami have used
several of the national companies, wishing to participate in Corporate
Partnership, successfully by specifying them as propriety suppliers, and we have
successfully obtained both engineering and OEM pricing with that process.
The CCFM Board feels that utilizing some sort of National Corporate Alliance
is an excellent way of saving hard earned donated dollars on our individual
projects. This is an excellent way to negotiate a better price, better warranty
or service contract and by repeated participation with the corporate partner
or supplier they will be more willing to give even better savings
incentives.The Corporate Partnership Committee is presently considering changing the name
of the program to Corporate Alliance. I will keep you updated in future issues.
