The Council can certainly "attract" more responders to every RFP and RFQ by paying current companies contracted with the City.  No company is going to respond to a City which has a council majority with a track record of not just pulling payments for services rendered, but for actively refusing month after month to pay for services rendered.

Morgan/Weber/Pepper may be able to force the City to keep these RFPs and RFQs open, but thankfully they cannot force companies to apply for, and do business with a City that is unable to pay them because Morgan/Weber/Pepper simply don't like the work they did, or they think the work benefits the developer.

Morgan/Weber/Pepper are the ONLY reason Black Diamond cannot attract responders.  What will make responding more attractive is when we again have a council run by folks with integrity, which is a charactoristic sorely lacking in Morgan/Weber/Pepper.