I’ve gone through a process where we’re trying to choose a vendor. We’ve narrowed the field from 6 to 2. However, I’m REALLY bad at passing along bad news, and some of these vendors I’ve already been working with for a couple of months on these initial proposals.
So my question is this: how do I let the 4 we’re dropping down easy? I’m not so worried about hurt feelings as I am about professionally burning bridges that we might possibly need later.
Has anyone had this happen to them? Or suggestions of ways of going about it?
