What to Do When Two Companies Ask for the Same Parts?

You check your email inbox and hey! There’s a new request for quote waiting for you there – awesome! A few hours later, you get another RFQ from a different company – you open it up, and… it’s the same lot of parts to be quoted? What do you do in this situation, especially if you already have a good working relationship with one of the companies?

On this episode of Practical Machinist’s MACHINE SHOP TALK, Ian Sandusky from Lakewood Machine & Tool is back to help out a Practical Machinist forum member who came on with this all-too-common situation on their hands.