The manager of engineering at the 900 megawatt Hamilton Nuclear Power Plant has three options to supply personal safety equipment to employees. Two are vendors who sell the items, and a third will rent the equipment for $50,000 per year, but for no more than 3 years per contract. These items have relatively short lives due to constant use. The MARR is 10 % per year

	Vendor R	Vendor T
Initial cost, $	-75000	-125000
Annual upkeep cost, $/year	-27000	-12000
Annual rental cost, $ per year	0	0
Salvage value, $	0	30000
Estimated life, years	3	5

Select from the two sales vendors using the LCM and PW Analysis