The purchasing department at an Alberta city hall is looking for a supplier of office supplies. Office supplies are pretty standard and the criteria used by the department to evaluate suppliers will be price, flexibility, and reliability. The following table summarizes the weights assigned to the factors by the department. Factor Price Flexibility Reliability Price Flexibility Reliability The department has been able to rate each supplier with respect to its (potential) performance based on research through previous transactions. The ratings are given on a 1-10 scale and are summarized below. Price Flexibility Reliability Weight 0.5 Total score 0.1 0.4 4 Supplier A Supplier B Supplier C 5 7 3 Using the factor-weighting technique in supplier analysis, rank the suppliers in terms of their overall score. 9 Factor-weighting technique to rank suppliers Supplier C Supplier A Supplier B