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Octopart is where engineers check availability during design, before the part is specified, before purchasing sees it, and long before a price request (RFQ) exists. It is the earliest useful moment in the whole chain.
By the time a request reaches your inbox, most of the decisions have been made. The part was chosen during design, and it was chosen partly on whether it looked available. Engineers check that on Octopart.
Being listed there is not about winning a price comparison. It is about being one of the suppliers whose stock made a part look safe to specify, which is how a line ends up in a BOM that will be reordered for years.
A part that makes it into a released BOM gets reordered every build. Winning at design is worth more than winning a single quote.
Engineers avoid parts that look thin. Visible stock from a credible distributor is what keeps a part on the shortlist.
The RFQ that arrives later is shaped by what was specified earlier. Discover is upstream of Sell for a reason.
The order you win in purchasing was decided in engineering, months earlier, by whoever looked available.
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