No Undisclosed Payments

If you’ve been on the receiving end of a quote from the office equipment industry, you’ve probably had a great personal offer made to you. Tickets to an event, a gift card with significant value or another personal incentive to get the deal signed. There’s been only a few stories that made the news. One instance was a widespread cash payment scandal for office fitouts where the tender winner’s proposal would be significantly less attractive than the others at face value, but would include cash payments to the procurement manager which the business didn’t know about.

Dealings like this are not tolerated by FairPrint, and any form of a “Bonus” or “Special Offer” made by the supplier must be directly to the business rather than the decision maker. All goods provided to the business are listed directly on the schedule. Even if a few tickets interstate for a photocopier software demonstration (or State of Origin match as the case may be) are bundled into a finance package, FairPrint requires that the incentive is listed on the proposal and/or Goods Schedule. This means that everything is kept above board and as senior management, you can be sure that your staff chose the FairPrint supplier for all the right reasons.