Comments for How to Write a Good Request for Proposal (RFP) at http://www.dare.co.in , comment 1 to 5 out of 5 comments http://www.dare.co.in Sun, 14 Mar 2010 23:09:37 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.dare.co.in/strategy/business-essentials/how-to-write-a-good-request-for-proposal-rfp.htm#comment-2779 test nsd fsd fsd fs df sdf sd fsd fsdf s df dddddf dfdf - test Sun, 07 Feb 2010 13:14:26 +0100 http://www.dare.co.in/strategy/business-essentials/how-to-write-a-good-request-for-proposal-rfp.htm#comment-2316 I agree on the point that noone is interested to write an RFP. But, if you visit big corporates, there are many wastages due to undefined or wrongly defined projects. How can one buy without defining what you want? When people fail to define this, they end up doing the procurement work on their own. The result may not be a commercially advantageous or risk free process. Now, the trend is to dedicate someone else to write the requirement. You can eliminate RFP but still you will end up doing this with a different name :-) - G Shankar Sat, 19 Dec 2009 10:33:39 +0100 http://www.dare.co.in/strategy/business-essentials/how-to-write-a-good-request-for-proposal-rfp.htm#comment-2086 This is a very welcome article, on a dying competency. It is amazing to see many administrators spending millions on capital equipment and techno-commercial services without doing their managerial homework, taking providers or vendors for granted. In case of inputs required in a creative or NPD project, one needs to develop a brief. - Udit Chaudhuri Fri, 27 Nov 2009 06:03:33 +0100 http://www.dare.co.in/strategy/business-essentials/how-to-write-a-good-request-for-proposal-rfp.htm#comment-1398 Hi, Thanks for your comments. You are right. New product development can hardly be done on the basis of an RFP. But this article is not limited to web development :) While I have used software/ website development examples,I have also used infrastructure examples. RFPs are used not just in web development, but also in other industries and verticals. How many infractructure projects can be done by Q&A and storyboarding via a functionality / priority matrix? Even in web development, talking from a client perspective (as against a vendor / contractor perspective), the approach you advocate assumes significant elasticity of budgets, which in today's world may be an unaffordable luxury. - Krishna Kumar Tue, 28 Jul 2009 03:29:38 +0100 http://www.dare.co.in/strategy/business-essentials/how-to-write-a-good-request-for-proposal-rfp.htm#comment-1377 KK - with due respect, I think the RFP process is obsolete. In today's Web 2.0 world, you dont create RFPs - you create questions, get these answered, create a functionality / priority matrix and get to storyboarding. Creating a RFP for maintenance / support projects is fine, it just doesnt work in a new product development with need for agile development. I feel this discussion is moot that way. - Ashish Kumar Sat, 25 Jul 2009 02:19:54 +0100