C O N N E C T

2600 Aeropark Drive Traverse City, MI 49686

May 12, 2014
Ms. Sara McIntainer
Pottery Shed
1330 La Terre Ave.
Pottsburg, Pottsylvania 50000

Dear Ms. McIntainer,

Greetings from Connect! Our company has dedicated the past week to creating the best
design possible for your product. To ensure to you that we have met all of the qualifications that
were highlighted in your Prospective Bidder letter, this letter addresses each of those concerns in
relation to our container. Those qualifications are reliability, certification, design and price.
To ensure the quality of our product, it is being shipped, by UPS, with three pots inside to
Colorado and back to our company. After this journey, the container design will be extensively
tested to ensure the integrity of the contents. The container has been designed to withstand
normal humidity,
Our company has employees certified in CS 2013 Quality Assurance Testing and Design
Certification of Packaging and have received a Box Manufacturers Certificate. Copies of these
certificates are attached.
The attached design was created by our DCP certified design engineers, Connor Gidner
and Anthony Rice. The corrugate rat trap buffer that lies within the inside of the pot acts
similar to the crash-crumble method used to design the modern automobile. The buffer increases
the time that force is being applied thus decreasing the actual force applied to the product. This
buffer will absorb any force that is incidentally applied during delivery and shipping.
This cost includes fees for material, employees and production.
The production cost of 5000 containers is $6213.91, or $1.24 per box.
The cost for the design is $4500.47.
Thank you for your time and consideration.
On behalf of Connect,