I swear, some of these suppliers are tough to get through. A CO requested traceability for 3 of my bids (they are all for the same part) and I have everything except the distributor's authorization letter. I asked the distributor if they could provide me with such letter and their first response was "We can provide it for the item that we quoted you on." I told them "Yes that's what we needed". Hours later, I decided to follow up and now they're saying "After you place the order, then we will send a request up for the certs." I then told them that "I cannot place an order yet because my federal client wants to verify the authorization letter before we proceed." Looks like I'll just move on from these 3 bids. 🙄