Q.1. Preparing a Proposal for an Announced Request for Bid. Read the following invitation to bid (a request for proposal) that appeared in a foreign newspaper. Then do two things: (1) write a letter to the company requesting further information, and (2) assume you have received that information and write your response along lines suggested in this chapter: INVITATION TO BID-FOREIGN COUNTRY AIRLINE Interested buyers are invited to a sealed bidding for the sale of the following: a. Ten BAC aircraft in 109 seat configuration with two engines each b. One re-diffusion flight simulator c. Eleven spare Rolls Royce Spey 512-14 DW engines d. Large inventory of rotator spares, expendables Interested parties should please contact G.L. Hong at Foreign Country Airline, Raffles Place, Singapore