evaluation criteria

You are a project manager in the process of purchasing coal of a particular grade from the international market. You are going through a formal evaluation review process to select the most suitable vendor. Which of the following should be the MOST important criteria for selection?

A)Lowest Cost

B)Technical ability

C)Financial Capacity

D)All of the above 

crushPMP's picture

A? Probably purchase it from the vendor that supplies the needed quality of grade at the lowest per unit price.

 the question is asking most important- Lowest cost, technical ability and ofcourse financial capacity is important too.

crushPMP's picture

^ Those would be important only if the tender was for developing a complex, unique, specialized solution/product. In which case you would definitely look the approach, the technical ability and financial capacity to deliver the complex solution.


When it's a standard product like coal, then price becomes the most important selection criteria