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- RFP Letters Toolkit (zip)
- Tips, templates, and samples provided in your free RFP Letters Toolkit, 2006 Edition help you write professional letters you can use in order to disqualify, decline, reject, or accept proposals in response to a Request for Proposal RFP, as well as to protest against unfair, biased contract award. Whether you...
- Tags: RFP
- Software downloads 2006-02-20
- 12 Questions a developer must answer in a contract winning RFP response
- With rising competition, vendor selection is becoming increasingly complex and more and more clients are using the RFP response as a basis for comparison between different vendors to evaluate the best available option. An effective RFP response is therefore critical to winning new business. This document provides a checklist of...
- Tags: Developer, Response, RFP, RFP Response
- Download resources 2006-07-19
- US Capitol Police Uses Modeling to Simplify Procurement and RFP Process
- The RFP process is critical because that's the time to determine number one, how much it is going to cost; number two, how long it is going to take; and number three and most importantly, how much customization of the COTS package is needed. As Consulting Enterprise Architect for Requirements...
- Tags: RFP, Procurement, Modeling, IBM Corp., Research & Development, Business Operations
- Case studies
- 10 things you should know about creating an effective RFP
- The clearer and more comprehensive your RFP is, the greater your chances of getting higher quality responses. Calvin Sun offers 10 tips that will help you put together an RFP that minimizes headaches and produces a successful outcome.This download is also available as an entry in our 10 Things blog.
- Tags: RFP, Calvin Sun
- Download resources 2008-02-25
- Any thoughts on Network Security RFP
- I am in the process of writing an RFP for network security for vendors to provide all appliances and configuraton of devices. Any thoughts or special considerations I should bear in mind? I outlined the setup of a DMZ, VPN, RAS.
- Tags: caribb'man, security, network, rfp, network security
- Discussion threads 2006-09-08
- Sample RFP for Anti-Spyware
- Found a nifty starter for a RFP for antispyware solution. Whileit could be beefier, it sure is a good start regarding the technicalquestions. Check it out here.
- Tags: anti-spyware, RFP
- Blog posts 2005-11-18
- 12 Questions a developer must answer in a contract winning RFP response
- Successful RFP responsesThe downloadable version of this article is available here:http://downloads.techrepublic.com.com/abstract.aspx?docid=240174Did your last RFP response win the contract? Did your response answer these questions? What other questions should your response answer?
- Tags: RFP response, RFP
- Discussion threads 2006-07-19
- The nebulous dev RFP: What it says vs. what it means
- Vague RFPs are a fact of development life. In some cases, the company that provided the RFP doesn't know how to write one. Other times, it's fishing for ideas to try to figure out what it wants. If you can guide such clients through the process of defining their needs...
- Tags: RFP
- Download resources 2005-04-04
- The Voice Over IP Tool Kit
- Voice over Internet protocol VoIP is fast becoming a popular technology by small and large businesses alike. Procuring this technology can quickly become a substantial, resource-intensive project. TechRepublic understands your needs to deliver this emerging technology and contract with the best vendor possible. TechRepublic introduces a comprehensive Voice over IP...
- Tags: IP, RFP, spreadsheet, TechRepublic Inc., tool, VoIP
- Download resources 2005-05-24
- RFP for Network Services
- Hi everybody,I'm seriously considering outsourcing the day-to-day management & monitoring of our network to an external provider. Can anybody offer advice or if possible provide me with an RFP template for these services. All help greatly appreciated.Many thanks
- Tags: brian.kennedy@..., RFP, network, network service
- Discussion threads 2007-06-15
- Encryption Procurement: - Setting a Standard
- Best practices for encryption procurement: What should be considered to achieve an enterprise encryption solution? What best practices should be followed? This Whitepaper summarizes what you should demand of a vendor and their solution, product and services. Enterprise Encryption RFP Step-by-Step: What needs to be considered in the competitive bid...
- Tags: Solution, Procurement, Best Practice, Encryption, Purchasing & Procurement, Business Operations
- White papers 2007-09-12
- How to respond to a corporate RFP
- Your response to a corporate request for proposal RFP can be an extremely time-consuming and anxiety-ridden process. The typical RFP is a significantly verbose document that looks more like a legal document than anything else, and has some very specific requirements. Here's how to examine the basic mechanics of the...
- Tags: Sean Michael Kerner, RFP
- Technical articles 2003-04-25
- Vendor Demonstration Scorecard
- We're in the process of selecting a new clinical application vendor, and in that process we'll be bringing in the top three respondents to the RFP to provide system demonstrations. Attending the demos will be various users who will then grade each vendor. It is on my plate...
- Tags: maryklarson@...
- Discussion threads 2006-05-04
- Environmental Systems Research Institute Case Study: The City of Nice, France
- The city of Nice has been actively mapping its territory for nearly a century. In 1995, the city of Nice decided to launch a fully competitive Request For Proposal RFP to acquire an enterprise GIS solution. The city worked together with a consultant to identify the city's needs and developed...
- Tags: Environmental Systems Research Institute Inc., GIS, Software
- Case studies
- Cost-Effective IT Platform Is a Welcome Guest at Upscale and Luxury Hotel Chain
- Wyndham International is a hotel chain renowned for offering personalized service and sumptuous amenities at its primarily upscale and luxury hotels. In 2000, Wyndham hired a new CTO whose arrival coincided with a decision to upgrade a large quantity of aging hardware. At the time, Wyndham purchased its systems from...
- Tags: RFP, Dell Computer Corp., CTO, Information Technology, Procurement, IT Platform, Wyndham International, Purchasing & Procurement, Servers, Business Operations, Hardware
- Case studies
- Case Study - Preparing for Hurricane Charley
- The client is a major financial services company. Their business justification clearly showed the need for a remote recovery site for both technical and business restorations in the event of a disaster. A list of prioritized requirements was compiled and incorporated into a comprehensive and formal Request For Proposal RFP....
- Tags: Pearson Education Inc., SunGard Data Systems Inc., RFP, Client
- Case studies
- Management of Procurement Contracts
- Very interested in procedures, policies, techniques that other companies use to manage the process of contracting for IT services and equipment, including deciding at what stage to call in legal, who maintains the documents, how amendment/renewal processes are handled, assigned roles for tech/legal/operations/other in RFP/RFI processes, etc.Thanks.
- Tags: IT Services, wraggedd@...
- Discussion threads 2006-09-07
- Procurement 101 in government IT: Request for Proposal (RFP)
- If you're new to the procurement process in government IT, understanding how to create an RFP is a first step. Follow these tips to write an RFP that produces the competitive bids you need. Keep up with the issues and challenges that uniquely affect public-sector IT with TechRepublic's free...
- Tags: RFP, Ramon Padilla Jr., Purchasing & Procurement, procurement, information technology, Government IT Newsletter, Criteria, Government
- Technical articles 2005-04-18
- Protecting your ideas in your RFP response
- By Karen Ann KiddResponding to RFPs, government or private, is new to many consultants who largely ignored them during the IT boom of the 1990s. The plenty-of-work and “stupid money” atmosphere of the period meant many consultants didn’t have to bother with RFPs. Then the IT bubble burst, the scramble...
- Tags: Guest Contributor, Idea Theft, RFP
- Technical articles 2003-04-08
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