1.Your state government organization located in the US, has determined that they want to outsource a design project to a consulting engineering firm and they have asked you to be the owner's project manager.One of your tasks is to prepare an RFP to select a firm to do the work.Answer the following questions:

a.List eight criteria below that you will use to decide which firm to select.Following each of the eight, provide a weighting factor that you will assign to each criterion so that the most important criterion has a weighting factor of 8 and the least important has a weighting factor of 1.

b.Should cost be one of your selection criteria?If not, why not and explain what you will do to make sure you are getting the best value?If yes, what form would it take?For example, should the firm submit a competitive total lump sum cost for their work?Or, their labor multiplier?Or, their hourly rates?Or, a man-hour estimate?Why?