While other suppliers bidding for the contract brought bids with lower per unit costs, Orchard wanted to take delivery based on the fact that the components they were using were machined to their exacting specifications 99.99999% of the time

Orchard's competitive priority was:
A) top quality.
B) consistent quality.
C) on-time delivery.
D) delivery speed.


B

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