Master the collocations for evaluating, shortlisting, onboarding, and replacing technology vendors.
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The platform team spent two weeks reviewing proposals in order to ___ the best monitoring solution.
Evaluate a vendor is the standard procurement and IT collocation for assessing vendor capabilities, pricing and fit. 'Assess out' and 'investigate over' are not standard collocations. 'Check around' is too informal.
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After reviewing all RFP responses, the procurement team agreed to ___ three vendors for further assessment.
Shortlist vendors is the established procurement term for selecting a limited group for further evaluation. 'Pick out early' is informal. 'Narrow to' requires a number to be grammatical. 'Reduce down' is redundant and imprecise.
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Once the contract was signed, the team needed to ___ the new cloud vendor into their existing workflows.
Onboard a vendor means to integrate and begin working with a new vendor formally. 'Integrate in' is a close alternative but less idiomatic. 'Absorb into' implies acquisition. 'Pull in' is too informal.
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The legal team was brought in to ___ with the SaaS vendor on pricing and SLA terms.
Negotiate with a vendor is the standard legal and procurement collocation. 'Talk about' is too informal for a contractual context. 'Speak towards' is not standard. 'Argue over' implies conflict rather than structured discussion.
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Due to repeated SLA breaches, the team decided to ___ the data provider and find an alternative.
Replace a vendor is the standard collocation for ending a vendor relationship and finding another. 'Change out' is informal. 'Swap away' is not a valid phrase. 'Switch off' means to turn off, not to change vendors.