Vendors are very good at optimizing for RFP scoring models. They know how to answer questions to maximize points, not necessarily to maximize success. Long answers, familiar wording, and confident statements often score well but hide assumptions. Scoring systems reward completeness, not honesty. That’s why leadership should read assumptions and exclusions carefully. Risk rarely hides in what vendors say—it hides in what they quietly exclude.

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