Assigned to Advanced Buyer.  Draft RFP circulated for approvals.

Pre-submittal meeting held; 12 people from 9 companies attended.

First Evaluation Committee (EC) meeting, at which the evaluation process was discussed and the proposals (minus cost proposals) distributed.  Evaluations begin.  Initial merit evaluations due to Purchasing for tabulation on 12/6/12.  Second EC meeting scheduled for 12/11/12.

Third EC meeting, at which the results of the second scoring were presented to the EC.  Each company, their cost proposals, and the revised ranking were discussed.  The EC then decided to interview the four top-ranked firms.  Purchasing working on determining the available times of EC members and room reservations.

Purchasing received and tabulated the final scores of the EC.  The results were sent via email to members of the EC, asking them to individually confirm their recommendation for award to the highest-scoring firm in this last evaluation.  All confirmed.