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Custom Machining Quotes
Tired of getting no-quoted? With QV machining companies come to you, instead of you going to them. QV is the easiest way to get custom and precision machining quotes, fast.
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Our Service
Machining Crowd Sourcing
Machining Companies Come to You Instead of You Going to Them
You can use directories and spend all day finding the right machining company, or you can rely on Qualified Vendor's marketplace to get you multiple quotes quickly for your machining work. When you put your job in our marketplace we notify each machining company that matches your profile. From there, up to five self select to quote your job. We also have a dedicated staff that will ensure each of your jobs gets five quotes.
How We Match
Self Selection
When you submit your RFQ, we make a summary and place it in the machining marketplace. From there, we send out alert emails to custom machining companies. They review the summary of your job and self-select to quote your job based on your critical requirements: job, when you need quotes and when you need parts.
Secondary Operations
Finishing, Heat Treating, Welding & More
Finding machinists that can perform your job and meet your secondary operation requirements is one of the benefits of crowd sourcing.
Some typical secondary operations that our machinists provide either directly or through subcontractors are:
- Wet paint
- Powder Coating
- Hard, Anodizing
- Decorative Anodizing
- Heat Treating
- Bright Dipping
- Chromate Conversion (& General Surface Treatment)
Other mechanical applications include:
- Wire EDM
- Sinker EDM
- Miniature Parts
- Large Parts
- Gun Boring
- Swiss Screw
- High Precision
- Weldments
- Multi-axis Machining
- Complex Parts
- Prototyping
- Assembly
- Etc
Additional Resources
Blogging and Resource List
We want to help you with you design. We maintain a machining blog to help you with basic terms and design guidance and we also keep a list of good industry links. If you have any suggestions, drop us a line.
Want To Know More?
We Want To Hear From You
Have questions? We’d be happy to talk to you in person. Feel free to call or email us anytime: 888.392.3885.
How Our Free Buyer Service Works
Quoting Without the Work
Our service is very simple. Send us your request-for-quote (RFQ) on the web, by phone or by fax and we make a summary visible to all the suppliers in our database that can do your job. On average, our database contains 90% of all the suppliers in a given vertical, i.e., machining. Suppliers are free to browse a summary of your job but your full RFQ details and contact information will only go to five that choose to quote your job based on their capabilities and ability to meet your schedule.
Why Only Five?
The Magic Number
As former design engineers and purchasing professionals dealing in low to medium production volumes, we never had a need for more than five quotes per item. What we wanted was a handful of quotes from quality suppliers. Our target buyer’s are those sourcing low to medium size production runs like we did. While they’re cost sensitive, they’re more focused on quality and repeatability than beating suppliers up on price.
What Does It Cost?
Free Buyer Service
Our service is completely free for buyers. Suppliers self-select based on your RFQ summary whether or not they can and want to quote your job.
How We Differ From Other Services
Skin In the Game
Other services sell subscriptions to suppliers in exchange for access to a pool of RFQs. The problem with this [from a buyer’s standpoint] is that you get inundated with questions about your RFQ from dozens of suppliers, but your RFQ only has visibility to suppliers paying for access to the pool. It’s like a lot of smoke but no fire.
We reverse that by making a summary of your RFQ visible to everyone and charging an access fee to suppliers that can do your job. The access fee, or as we like to call it “skin in the game”, weeds out most of the bad vendors. Additionally, suppliers build a transaction history over time based on buyer feedback that further helps to qualify vendors.
Information Safety
Total Assurance
Your intellectual property is safe with Qualified Vendor. We individually approve each supplier that gets quotes through our system. Your part files and drawings are all encrypted and are only accessible through dynamic links through the supplier’s account manager.
Want To Know More?
We Want To Hear From You
Have questions? We’d be happy to talk to you in person. Feel free to call or email us anytime: 888.392.3885. You can also use our contact form or visit our Buyer FAQ page.
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