the importance of an adequate framework for the selection of suppliers for an organization has been stressed in the literature several sophisticated methods have also been suggested . two such interesting methods namely the total cost of ownership and the analytical hierarchy process have recently been suggested .while we recognize the contribution of their work in the supplier section literature, we feel that their work could be strengthened by combining the powers of the two methods suggested. while relatively easier procedure are possible for combining the result, we suggested a more sophisticated methodology namely data envelopment analysis DEA to combine the powers of TCO and AHP approaches.