17. Although your company is not the lowest bidder for a project, the client has come to expect good performance from your company and wants to award the contract to you. To be awarded the contract, the client asks you to eliminate your project management costs. The client says your company has good project processes, and project controls unnecessarily inflate your costs. What should you do under these circumstances?

A. Eliminate your project management costs, and rely on experience.

B. Remove costs associated with project team communications, meetings, and customer reviews.

C. Remove meeting costs but not the project manager ·s salary.

D. Describe the costs incurred on past projects that did not use project management.