Answer to Question #296394 in Operations Research for lisa

Question

Karamoja University has decided to build four buildings to house four departments. They have called for tenders from approved contractors for constructing the buildings. The scrutiny committee quotations for accounts felt that quotations of contractors A, B, C and D are reasonable and they decided to reject the remaining ones. The following table gives quotations in million shilling units of constructing the four buildings by the four respective contractors. Buildings Contractors || II IV A 10 24 30 15 В 16 22 28 12 12 20 32 10 26 34 16 (a) What decision the committee should make so that the amount to be spent by the University on construction is the minimum? (8 marks) (b) Suppose the scrutiny committee later on considers including contractor E in the selection of contractors. Determine the new schedule if contractor E quotes 12, 16, 22 and 15 units for the four buildings respectively.