Reseller News Join Reseller News Sign up to gain exclusive access to email subscriptions, event invitations, competitions, giveaways, and much more.Sign up now EQC selected Salesforce, unadvertised, as a 'prototype' Salesforce selection follows controversy over the Ministry of Health's rollout of the same software. Credit: Supplied New Zealand government disaster insurer EQC selected Salesforce as its engagement platform without openly advertising because it was considered a "prototype". The rules of government procurement include a series of exemptions from standard requirements to openly advertise planned purchases, under section 14.9. In this case, EQC invoked section 14.9e, which allows the purchase of a prototype for "research, experiment, study or original development".