But for some of its latest mobile products, Apple has been seeking other vendors like Toshiba, Elpida and Sharp to use their components instead.
Indeed, Verizon has reportedly been seeking technology vendors who can help it fulfill these gatekeeper ambitions.
Mr. Hughes said Arizona had set standards for health plans that would compete on its exchange and was seeking a vendor to build some of the technological infrastructure and a call center.
The now infamous Project Maven was a smaller, more specific contract with direct implications for the military's use of drones, while JEDI is broader and bigger, seeking a vendor to provide cloud services for all branches of the military.
US network providers and systems developers are strongly encouraged to seek other vendors for their projects.
It began, of course, in the mid-19th century, when Irish immigrants in New York accepted the low pay and the long hours of police work as the price for job security — though that low pay might be supplemented by coins buried in the apples proffered by protection-seeking street vendors.
"It is his understanding and my hope that the Port Authority is seeking qualified minority vendors," he writes.
"These are clearly prohibited gifts from vendors seeking to do business with the hospital," Walter C. Ayres, a commission spokesman, said today.
Since a dozen or more vendors seeking ice were usually about, it was easy for a roughly dressed stranger to mingle with them on the platform without attracting much attention.
According to Mr. Rawal, the charity then began calling former employees and vendors, seeking documentation that would help it prepare tax forms for 2005, 2006 and 2007, needed for those reports.
