After establishing the guidelines for the preparing the technical and management requirements for the major contracts for their project, Janet White wants to assure that the most qualifies bidders receive the Request for Proposal (RFP) for the major contract. The proposed bidders for the engineering contract contained three bidders. Two of the engineering firms have preformed work for the BPC on previous contracts. The third engineering firm is recommended by one of their own managers in the BPC engineering group. The manager previously was employed by that engineering firm he is recommending to be added to the bidders list. The list of proposed bidders for the supplying the gas turbine-generators contains only two companies. There are only two companies in the United States that manufacture gas turbine-generators large enough for the new BPC plant. There are manufactures in Europe and Asia that have the capacity to manufacture the gas turbine-generators for the required size. BPC has no prior experience with foreign manufactures of the required gas turbine-generators. The proposed list of bidders for the civil construction contract contains three bidders. One of the companies that have not worked for the BPC was recommended by an electric utility in Minnesota that has used the contractor on its projects. The other company on the list of proposed bidders has made two sales presentations to Ed Gordon, the Program Manager of the Power Company. Janet white reviews these lists of proposed bidders for the major contracts and schedules a meeting with the managers of the procurement, engineering, licensing, and construction groups to finalize the lists. Answer the following questions as if you are Janet White: 1. What is the minimum number of bidders that you want to have for these major contracts and why? 2. Since you only have two proposed bidders for the gas Turbine generator contract, will you add any foreign manufactures to the bid list and why? 3. What are the advantages and disadvantages to procuring major equipment from foreign companies? 4. What sources will be used to locate qualifies, finding manufactures of the gas Turbine-generators? 5. Are you willing to accept the engineering contractor recommended by a former employee of that contractor on the bidders for the engineering contract and if so, what further evaluation should be conducted? 6. Should the fact that certain companies worked on previous BPC project automatically qualify them for inclusion upon the list of bidders for the new project and if so, what analysis should be accomplished