You are the project manager within an information technology department of a large retailer. In order to allow for better real-time tracking, inventory control, and supply chain management, your company is financing a project to install and deploy RFID tags on all items of merchandise. As a project manger, you’ve just completed the Select Sellers process, and selected a vendor to perform the RFID installation and deployment.
After the contract is assigned with the vendor, the account manager from the vendor calls for thank you for selecting them. As a thank-you gift, they would like to give you and your project team tickets to a free dinner convention, where the vendor will be providing a demo if their latest RFID systems.
How should you respond?
A. Since the previous project manager had accepted the gift, the precedent has already been established within the organization.
Hence, you can freely accept the gift.
B. You can freely accept the gift, since you were not aware of the gift during the selection process. The gift will not influence your decisions, and hence, there is no impropriety
C. You should not accept the gift, unless the vendor is willing to extend this gift to other members of the project team
D. You should not accept the gift, as it may have an appearance of impropriety
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