You are the project manager within and information technology department of a large retailer. You are responsible for updating the network infrastructure of the company. As a project manager, you are in the Select Sellers process, and have four different vendors on your qualified sellers list. One of the vendors on your list has invited you and your family to Hawaii for a "convention". The vendor assures that the convention is for legitimate business purposes and will be helpful in letting your company better evaluating their offerings. However, you are hesitant to accept the gift. To appraise your concerns, the vendor tells you that they will be doing a demo of the systems and other members of your project team in the past have attended. What should you do?
A. Since the previous project managers has accepted the gift, the precedent has already been established within the organization. Hence, you can freely accept the gift
B. Since you suspect that the meeting does NOT have legitimate business purpose, you should not accept, the gift, as it may give an appearance of impropriety
C. You can freely accept the gift, since the trip has a legitimate business purpose. The vendor will be providing information regarding their systems.
D. Since the convention may be useful, you may accept the invitation. However, you should report the acceptance of the gift to the appropriate people in your organization so that your actions are not questioned later on.
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