Due to an increase in business at Waters, Inc. I have been tasked, as the Purchasing Agent, with finding a suitable supplier to provide the company with computer equipment and software that fulfills the requirements set forth by the client and within our company's standards. For this project, the company has been given 9 months to complete the acquisition and fielding of the equipment and training of personnel, in addition, new personnel will be hired and trained to provide the customer support service, furthermore, this project will be divided in three different phases. The first phase will consist of finding and identifying the specifications required by the